Leads team of commercial lawyers responsible for commercial matters in company’s global line of businesses as well as team of contract administrators • Primary legal responsibility to build and maintain all cross line of business commercial programs for eye care providers’ benefit• Manage intellectual property as well as creation and negotiation of contracts, including buy-side licenses and distribution arrangements, and sell-side key account bundled discountarrangements• Manage asset acquisitions for company’s growing portfolio of businesses• Facilitate cross-functional communications and collaboration among teams within legaldepartment and entire company• Establish multiple lines of business to diversify company’s non-regulated service offering Accomplishments:• Led and established company’s vision care offerings outside the US in the UK, Ireland, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malta, and China. Process included researching local laws relating to insurance, privacy, corporate formalities, and tax issues• Established commercial programs including an e-commerce platform to engage eye care doctors with company’s supply chain by researching health law issues including corporate practice of medicine rules, anti-superiority, and anti-kickback laws

Counseled executive leadership and Board of Directors on all legal matters bearing on company and managed paralegal and office assistant• Managed company’s insurance portfolio and all litigation against it, comprising primarily of construction defect claims, as well as workers compensation and OSHA claims• Advised company's Board of Directors regarding employment, intellectual property, Cal-OSHA, workers compensation, CSLB and collections issues• Negotiated subcontract agreements with homebuilders and drafted contracts for various corporate needs• Counseled management staff in addressing homeowner service issues• Established graduated customer service response plan and implemented document retention programAccomplishments• Maximized insurance coverage for litigation and reduced the company’s legal spend before exhausting coverage• Developed safety program to ensure compliance with all OSHA regulations• Worked closely with HR to develop programs to avoid injuries, and to find alternative jobs get injured employees back to work

Managed caseload consisting of primarily defensive litigation involving asbestos, construction defect and automobile accident personal injury claims. Arbitrated both first party and third party claims. Developed defensive strategy, handled all aspects of discovery, negotiated settlements and prepared cases for trial.

Represented primarily tenants and homeowners in connection with claims of construction defects and toxic mold exposure. Second chaired major product liability trial. Participated in the defense of medical malpractice actions. Represented both landlords and tenants in unlawful detainer actions. Voluntarily left the firm with supervising partners who split to start their own firm.