Senior Counsel
Current- Provide several types of legal advice for large industry trade association, including corporate compliance, intellectual property, and contracts. Act as primary counsel for industry standards development efforts.
- Conceptualized a multi-layered employee and contractor compliance program from scratch preventing serious threats to a $40M industry product certification program.
- Reduced contract creation and administration time by implementing new procedures and standardizing terms to enable contract officers to more efficiently achieve their business goals while protecting the organization.
- Created training programs and procedures for high-risk industry standards development program, including the complete prevention of antitrust suits or government enforcement actions for 14 years in a program with 7000.
- Negotiated major IP distribution agreements for publications generating $25M in annual income, increasing revenues by 20% while providing the organization control over its distribution channels.
- Established strong trademark and copyright enforcement processes, resulting in a 50% reduction in copyright enforcement legal costs and a 50% reduction in cases of counterfeit trademark usage around the world.