Led Legal Department providing effective and efficient legal advice to all company functions including Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Environment, Health & Safety, Risk Management, Engineering, and Quality.• Successfully negotiated, as part of cross-functional teams, key customer agreements for $2B corporation.• Set strategy, planned, and negotiated, as part of core team, industry-changing collective bargaining agreements with significant changes in wage and benefits structures stabilizing the manufacturing footprint.• Proactive litigation management and oversight of outside counsel with attention to developing litigation strategies aligned with business goals and objectives. • Controlled strategy and resolution of significant environmental issues; collaborated with internal teams to address business and operational issues; achieved a change in tone of negotiations that led to consent agreement.• Counseled target corporation in $1.7 billion stock acquisition including proceedings before the FTC; participated in due diligence; monitored compliance.• Participated as member of executive staff in developing 5-year strategic plan following acquisition; assigned key responsibilities of re-energizing staff and relocating corporate headquarters.• Designed and customized legal terms in bid package for warehouse management system. • Significant contributor to the design, build, and lease back of a 1 million square foot warehouse, distribution center, and office facility.• Assisted with closure of 6 manufacturing facilities including union issues, sale of property, and environmental considerations.• Led team to design, develop, and implement contract database.• Disciplined to the budget without putting the company at risk.• Led design, development, and implementation of compliance hotline; responsible for enforcement and investigations related to the Code of Ethics• Safeguarded intellectual property.

• Provide legal support to TV/Manufacturing Operations, Real Estate, Finance, Risk Management, and Benefits• Manage litigation caseload in excess of 100 products liability matters• Corporate governance of U.S. company and its Mexican and Canadian subsidiaries

• Litigation - the pursuit or defense of claims concerning contracts, commercial transactions, insurance coverage, personal injury, torts, and real estate

Taught litigation in the paralegal program