• Maintain compliance and risk management programs for all business operations with emphasis on dietary supplements, functional foods, pet products and cosmetics. • Review product labels and formulations for on demand business. • Provide legal guidance to all customer transactions, financial activities, tax implications andother company activities. • Negotiate vendor agreements, procurement contracts, and other business contracts.• Identify potential legal risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.• Manage intellectual property rights for company.• Review business contracts and reports, understanding any legal issues and advise from a legalperspective.• Negotiate and manage customer contracts according to state and local laws.• Awareness of legislative changes that may affect the company and its affiliates.

Work with corporate leadership teams determined to propel nutrition, natural products, and dietary supplement companies into premium brands and niche giants with commitment to helping people live better lives through ethical manufacture and sale of superior products.• Insulating executives and companies in an exceptionally high risk industry, including reducing new litigation.• Communicating sophisticated legal advice and concepts in plain English to employees at all levels• Preparing start-ups and entrepreneurial companies for private equity investment or strategic acquisition• Staying ahead of technology and its business and regulatory impact

• Executive Advising & Corporate Operations: General legal advice to the executive team to ensure success and growth. Advised executives of legislative changes that may affect the company and its affiliates.• Regulatory Compliance: Maintained compliance and risk management programs for all business operations.• Risk Management: Identified potential legal risks and developed appropriate mitigation strategies.• Commercial Contracts: Negotiated and managed vendor agreements, procurement contracts, and other business contracts. Legal oversight of referral partners and affiliate network agreements and practices. Reviewed business contracts and reports. Set up user-friendly contract management system.• Intellectual Property: Oversaw intellectual property rights for company.• Litigation Management: Handled existing legal cases and proceedings of company• Corporate Finance & Tax: Partnered with CFO to consider tax ramifications of business decisions and company activities, including employment contracts.

*General Counsel handling a wide variety of corporate legal matters. Duties included negotiating endorsement and appearance agreements for various athletes, including UFC fighters, NFL players and fitness models. *Drafting and negotiating manufacturing, distribution and vendor agreements with major online and brick and mortar retailers. Managing corporate litigation both personally and via outside counsel. *Searching and filing trademark applications and preliminary patent research with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. *Advising CEO and other executives on employment law and administrative agency compliance issues. Reviewing product advertising and promotional materials for regulatory compliance.

Reviewed documents as part of discovery response preparation. Provided Quality Control assessment of document review done by 45 other attorneys. Promoted to Team Lead for both small (8 attorneys) and mid-size (45 attorneys) projects. Later promoted to Project Manager supervising over 100 attorneys for a large corporate client.

*Drafted and negotiated contracts with vendors, suppliers and third-party manufacturers. Reviewed software licensing agreements and procurement agreements. *Performed legal and regulatory review of marketing agreements and materials; including print ads, retailer/consumer sell sheets and product FAQs. Created CCH/THOMAS-based legislative updates for the legal department.*Drafted numerous athlete and celebrity endorsement agreements, including professional fitness models and NFL athletes. Worked with NFL and NFL Player’s Association to achieve NSF certification for several EAS sports nutrition products. *Managed corporate litigation both personally and via outside counsel. General litigation issues included employment discrimination, SAG compensation for celebrity endorsers, and a wide variety of breach of contract issues. Intellectual property litigation issues included trademark and copyright infringement as well as patent violations relating to HMB and creatine. *Provided direct support to EAS International BV, including procurement of customs documents, Certificates of Free Sale and Certificates of Analysis. Drafted trademark and copyright protection agreements for international distributor sales materials. *Supported the Body-for-Life Challenge team by drafting and revising the Body-for-Life contest rules and marketing materials. Negotiated Body-for-Life trademark licensing agreements with retailers. *Reviewed product labels and ingredient claims for all EAS brands (Myoplex, EAS HP, AdvantEdge, Body-for-Life and Piranha).