Michael Pita Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas

Sugar Land, Texas

As general counsel, responsible for planning and directing all aspects of Company’s legal affairs and ensuring maximum protection of Company’s rights with respect to all legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. As corporate secretary, provided legal guidance and strategic legal advice to Board of Managers and other Company officers regarding compliance with both state and Federal healthcare laws. Managed all aspects of litigation related to Company, including EEOC and state administrative issues. Consulted with outside counsel and prepared strategy for path forward. Advised upper-level management on all aspects of litigation and its effect on, and implications for, the Company. Reduced outside legal fees by over two-thirds. Managed and advised Human Resources Department.- Reduced overall company liabilities by creating a revised business plan to reorganize organizational structure in an efficient and professional manner.- Drafted company agreements and amendments to align organizational structures with Company vision giving more authority to individual stakeholders who had larger shares of Company stock.- Prepared a new share issuance from Company to individual shareholder in order to raise additional capital and give individual shareholders additional control.- Negotiated asset purchase agreements for individual pharmacies, including transfer of licenses and insurance contracts, in order to protect Company from liabilities related to specific lease guarantees.- Managed Director and Officer Liability Insurance Program to provide legal protection from Board of Managers and C-Level Corporate Executives.- Managed and prepared all share transfer agreements among members in order to ensure Company kept accurate records of transfers in company records.

Houston, Texas

Managed and developed strategies for responding to administrative agency investigations conducted as a result of industrial and maritime accidents (OSHA and United States Coast Guard). Advised clients on regulatory compliance and strategies for reducing risk. Managed, developed and implemented strategies for advising and defending corporations in complex multiple party cases involving catastrophic and wrongful death injury.- Positioned client for favorable settlement in insurance coverage dispute related to fire at apartment complex.

Houston, Texas

Managed national products liability docket for multi-national corporation, including investigating and analyzing claims, developing and implementing national litigation strategies, analyzing and determining claims for indemnity from sellers and other manufacturers. Responsible for all phases of litigation from initial investigation through resolution.- Managed catastrophic death and personal injury cases on product liability docket.

Houston, Texas

Responsible for preparing and defending active insurance defense docket, including initial review of pleadings, discovery and trial strategy, prepared and argued dispositive motions, and taking depositions of fact witnesses, experts, and plaintiffs. Also prepared and presented key defendants and corporate representatives for deposition.- Tried several cases to verdict as second chair in both Louisiana and Texas.- Managed products liability docket of over 1000 claimants related to asbestos exposure claims. Took over 200 depositions.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Environmental Law

Activities and Societies: - Honors: Order of the Barristers, Honors in Trial Advocacy, Who’s Who Among American Law Students, and Moot.

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology

Activities and Societies: - Activities: Sigma Nu Fraternity, Executive Board Member and Volunteer Coordinator.