Geoff Morris, Jd, Mba Email & Phone Number

Oregon, United States

Oregon, United States

Tempe, Arizona

Led team of attorneys and paralegals providing support to multiple global corporate clients, including Fortune 100/500 companies, provided internal leadership and legal escalation support for those teams, and managed the day-to-day relationship for our Fortune 500 clientNegotiated and drafted complex procurement and commercial contracts for Fortune 100/500.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Briefed, argued, and won a Ninth Circuit appeal on the constitutionality of a warrantless seizure of child. Keates v. Koile, 16-16568 (Mar. 6, 2018) (slip op).Lead Counsel on transactional matters involving entity formation, employment restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements, IP asset purchase agreements, trademark assignment, home solicitation.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

My work involves reviewing evidentiary documents and drafting motions and pleadings.I support the family and civil practice areas of the firm.

Scottsdale, AZ

• Researched state laws on dispensing or reselling compounded sublingual immunotherapy biologics.
• Drafted several Articles of Termination, Statement of Changes, Trade Name Application, several LLC Operating Agreements, and intercompany agreements.
• Documented Arizona LLC default rules in lieu of Operating Agreement provisions.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Drafted Report and Orders for Attorney Discipline.
• Drafted Recommendation for Certification for Licensed Document Preparer.
• Prepared numerous pre-trial memoranda to highlight contested issues of fact and law for the Disciplinary Panel.
• Reviewed and cite checked court documents prior to filing.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Prepared copyright infringement demand letter for General Counsel as against another party that promptly ceased infringing copyrights upon receipt of letter.
• Drafted Service Agreement for Vendor to provide Sales Training Curriculum.
• Reviewed vendor contracts to support business engagements.
• Organized spreadsheet to track implementation of policies and procedures document creation in relation to Written Supervisory Procedures as per FINRA rules.
• Developed policy and procedure documents for retail communications review, communications publishing, due diligence for real estate investment trust offerings, non-cash compensation to employees of other companies.
• Developed invention and copyright disclosure forms to support business application for IP protection.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Developed business requirements and created project framework for document management system to support compliance with applicable record retention policies, to decrease discovery costs through an e-discovery platform.
• Developed business requirements for marketing and operations delivery of prospectus, brochures, investor statements, and other company communications though mail and online media.

• Analyzed the IT Information systems for over 200 applications to determine if there were any deficiencies in their security. Findings resulted in a scope of work document and estimated costs to elevate status to.
• Coordinated the engagement between Symantec’s internal business groups and HP Professional Services to document requirements and generate RFQs to ensure that internal needs were met.
• Interacted with business partners to develop the process to identify and record unknown assets, define owners in the case of system incidents in order to prevent or decrease response time.

• Gathered payment processing requirements, standardized the procedures and improved the documentation to allow newly acquired companies to be integrated into the existing payment system which resulted in minimizing web.
• Implement process changes in electronic payment that resulted in decreased costs and increased efficiency for the overall system.
• Identified and documented system gaps between past project requirements and current implementation leading to further project definitions to bring the storefront to financial booking process inline with business.

• Demonstrated the licensing platform to OEM customers, such as Dell and Fujitsu, in support of sales opportunities resulting in several multimillion dollar transactions.
• Created Excel tools and processes to improve the management of IT human capital.

• Decreased the time to resolve production incidents by implementing system and business process improvements.
• Coordinated project activities for a $65 million IT and business improvement program.
• Scheduled the use of our multiple development and test environments to increase capacity to develop project enhancements while also having path for responding to production issues.

Jd, Patents, Copyright, Trademark, Privacy, Internet, Contracts, Corporate, Trial

Activities and Societies: • Sports and Entertainment Law Students Association • J. Reuben Clark Law Society • Corporate and Business Law.

Mba, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Toastmasters; Golf ClubFocused on Finance

Business Administration, Leadership, Operations, And Accounting

Focus on Finance and IT

Bs, Computer Information Science