Michael Yaro Email & Phone Number

Tarzana, Ca

In-house counsel at a mid-size, local construction company with a history of successful project delivery across both the public and private sectors. Duties include: • Managing, and serving as the company’s primary liaison with, all outside counsel to achieve successful outcomes regarding all litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings • Engaging in communications with federal, state and local government agencies, and responding to correspondence from attorneys and other relevant parties • Analyzing judicial and legislative developments to structure and implement strategies, trainings, policies and procedures to mitigate legal risk • Analyzing, reviewing and revising the company’s contracts for new and pending projects

Outside support purveyor to litigation law firms in Southern California, providing a full range of services including but not limited to legal research and drafting, document review, discovery, case strategy review, and attendance at hearings and depositions.

Counselor for all company functions at a limited liability company which operates in the pharmacy industry. Responsibilities include advising client and company personnel on the application of various federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, sterile and non-sterile compounding compliance, risk management, and contractual issues. Additionally responsible for oversight of litigation functions, including addressing subpoenas, claims and litigation against the company, as well as selection and supervision of outside counsel and consultants.

In-house counsel at a privately-held company which is a leader in the dietary and nutritional supplement field. Duties include analyzing business and legal risks and establishing practices and policies designed to best execute creative and business strategies. Particular focus on drafting agreements in all areas of the company's business, ranging from intellectual property and e-commerce to sales of goods and international trade.

Manager in the legal department charged with administration of most below-the-line contracts and related documentation for the theatrical production of motion pictures. Daily responsibilities included, but were not limited to:• negotiating and drafting below-the-line agreements (e.g., long-form agreements for line producers, unit productions managers, directors of photography, casting directors, costume designers, production designers, clearance coordinators, equipment and vendor rental agreements, location agreements and leases, and other production-related contracts), as well as overseeing and managing the internal and external distribution and execution of these documents;• reviewing and revising the standard web development agreement utilized by the studio for creation of digital content by third party developers;• interacting with agents, attorneys, contract administrators and film production personnel to facilitate the achievement of the objectives of the production team;• preparing memoranda for internal distribution to the company’s various divisions which summarize the rights and obligations the company has vis-à-vis its talent on various projects.

Pasadena, California

Business and construction litigation associate at one of the leading construction law boutique firms in California. Representative experience includes:• Serving on a litigation team which successfully settled construction disputes between the owner, prime contractor, and numerous subcontractors and suppliers on a private hospital construction project with a project cost of several hundred million dollars;• Successfully overturning the denial of a claim, which had been rejected by the Office of the Liquidator (an agent of the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California charged with oversight of liquidation of a leading construction surety), made by a contractor against a public works payment bond;• Serving as second chair in a trial which involved a promissory estoppel claim regarding a subcontractor’s bid to a prime contractor on a public works project for a local school district;• Serving on a trial team which successfully negotiated a substantially discounted settlement of a dispute between a union-signatory employer and the trustees of certain Taft-Hartley Act fringe benefit trust funds for alleged violation of ERISA and the Labor Management Relations Act due to alleged unpaid fringe benefit contributions.

J.D.

Ba, Philosophy