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Boxborough, Ma, Us

Reviewed, analyzed, and coded e-documents according to client-provided discovery protocols. Environmental, unfair trade practices, criminal tax, and antitrust subject areas. Clients included: AkinGump, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati; Nossaman, Katten; and WilmerHale.• Relevance• Attorney-client and work-product privilege• Personal and client confidentiality• Redaction• Audio and video file review• Privilege log writing• Quality control• Team Lead

New York, Ny, Us

Secondment to legal department regulatory operations teams at well-known OCC-regulated banks and financial services companies. Evaluation and consultation on legal and regulatory aspects of escalated customer complaints. Second line-of-defense compliance consultation. Writing and QA on law and regulation surveys and inventories.• Client response & customer service letters• Regulatory compliance & response• Compliance surveillance• Risk & loss mitigation advisory• Consumer protection• FCRA/ECOA (Regs V/B)• Truth-in-Lending Act (Reg Z)• Electronic Fund Transfers (Reg E)• RESPA (Reg X)• Vulnerable/elder adult protection

Houston, Texas, Us

Research project for Eversheds Sutherland and a national insurance carrier to prepare comprehensive database of compliance requirements found in the statutes and regulations of all 50 states for 11 property-casualty lines of business.

New York, Ny, Us

Assisting RIS to respond to regulatory proposals and changes. Review of statutes, regulations and emerging compliance issues to determine impact. Determining and achieving goals for modification or revision of regulatory proposals. Determine and achieve specific changes to business processes driven by regulation. Key Accomplishments and Projects:• Developed primary strategy and assisted government relations and trade partners in successfully defeating multi-state legislative effort that threatened multi-billion dollar line of business. • Review, comment and implementation of the DOL Fiduciary Rule.• Managing many projects to update compliance. Review regulation before and after changes. Distill requirements into actionable business processes. Communicate requirements and assist business partners with process updates. • Designed and authored several Sharepoint compliance databases, including for risk management.

Represented client organization to state regulators, federal officials and industry on insurance law, regula-tion and policy. Staff to the International Issues, State-Federal, and Health Committees.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Practice representing insurance companies on solvency and accounting issues on a national, federal and international level. Work on projects related to ACA grants, state licensing and M&A.

Consultant to insurers on public policy and regulation. Monitored and affected direction of major policy-making organizations including: NAIC, IAIS, FASB, FIO, SEC, the IAIS, etc. Clients included trade association (GNAIE), AEGON USA, Jackson National Life Insurance, etc.Identified regulatory issues and solutions; drafted specific changes to model regulation; managed projects; and led client and trade groups; achieved support for goals. Conducted presentations, answered questions and debated issues at regulator and legislator meetings. Key Accomplishments and Projects:• Lead staff on international asset accounting, investment, and solvency for client trade association. • Successfully led effort to achieve state regulatory treatment for client’s key financial crisis strategy.• Author of many comment letters including client’s response to SEC proposal to adopt IFRS. • Led effort to rationalize the application of SOx to non-public insurers.• Conducted 20+ presentations on international issues including to the NAIC, FEI, and Federal Bar.• Member of the Board of Directors of client trade association.

Primary supervisor for the execution of contracts on approximately $24M of work in elevator and escalator construction for NYC Transit and the City of NY.

J.D., Law

Ba, English, Political Science