• Managed all Company litigation, including commercial, products liability and employment. • Collaborated with sales team in building and executing strategy purposed toward growing the Company’s distribution channels in a lawful manner, including consideration of obligations to former employers and trade secrets. • Advised on employment matters, including discrimination and EEOC, as well as internal investigations, discipline, termination, and periodic review and advising on employment policies and handbook.• Commercial contracting• Supervised outside counsel, lobbyists, and consultants on a wide variety of matters.• Partnered with Finance team on matters of corporate governance and NASDAQ compliance, including reviewing, drafting and editing of SEC documents. • Implemented internal controls and procedures, including enterprise contract management and document retention.

General commercial litigation as well as administrative and regulatory proceedings. • Breach of contract and warranty claims, torts, injunctions, declaratory judgment actions. • Complex commercial and business disputes (mediation)• Land use and title disputes• Advised on business tort and statutory claims, including, for example: trade secrets, Uniform Trade Secrets Act; unfair competition; tortious interference; breach of fiduciary duty/duty of loyalty; fraud.• Awarded 2009 and 2010 Rising Star by Super Lawyers; 2007 “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business Magazine.

Advised clients in litigation matters and government affairs, overseeing various criminal matters, administrative matters, commercial disputes and government enforcement actions. • Advised power and water companies in all administrative and regulatory proceedings. • Provided strategic legal advising for clients on restrictive covenant agreements.• Advised Fortune 500 client with respect to unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and trade practices.• Recognized in 2006 with “Legal Elite” Award by Virginia Business Magazine.

• Managed outside counsel in litigation matters, as well as ensured compliance with federal and state financing laws regarding motor vehicle law, customer privacy, and lending. • Drafted, edited and administered all transaction documents. • Directed all aspects of the sale and financing of vehicles in wholesale and retail transactions.• Assisted operations in all aspects (including the drafting of appropriate documents) of establishing stores and administrative processes in over thirty new states, requiring collaboration with state regulatory and government officials to enable the completion of sale and tax documents effecting the purchase of motor vehicles.• Led and managed government affairs matters involving state attorneys general, regulators, and legislators.

• Drafting of pleadings and discovery in both regulatory and litigation matters.• Fortune 100 client in $289 billion lawsuit under RICO statutes.• Fortune 100 client in federal and state administrative proceedings.