David Reesman Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Md, Us

• Oversee all legal matters and provide sage counsel to company’s leadership team.• Review and negotiate contracts.• Oversee general liability, employment and workers' compensation claims and litigation.• Mitigate risk through a comprehensive risk management strategy including review and selection of appropriate insurance coverages.• Create and maintain legally compliant employment policies and procedures and counsel HR and staff at all levels on employee relations and benefits matters.• Monitor legal and regulatory state and federal developments nationwide for on-going compliance.• Partner with outside counsel and administrators to meet fiduciary obligations and support ERISA compliant welfare and retirement benefit plans.• Respond to administrative agency charges of discrimination, subpoenas, and document requests.• As Corporate Secretary perform corporate secretary functions and advise Board of Directors on corporate governance and potential liability matters of significance.• Maintain intellectual property protection program for trademark and copyright.• Ethics Compliance Officer responsible for the Code of Conduct and Ethics Program and related training.

Managed the domestic and international employment, fidelity and fiduciary claims and litigation for a worldwide corporation with more than 135,000 employees.• Specific responsibilities included: investigating, evaluating and managing nationwide claims and litigation; advising senior management, training and counseling HR and operations and negotiating directly with plaintiffs’ counsel; directing case strategies and commenting on pleadings and discovery; and, participating as the company representative in jury trials, depositions, hearings and mediations. • As Senior EEO Representative prepared position statements and represented the company against agency charges of discrimination throughout the U.S.

A general practice law firm with emphasis on insurance defense, personal injury, employment, and workers’ compensation law. Responsibilities included legal research and writing, drafting discovery and pleadings, conducting depositions, hearings, and trials.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Criminology (History Minor)

Jd Cum Laude, Law

Activities and Societies: Law Review Associate Editor