Molly Ward Email & Phone Number

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs, CA

Palm Springs, California

Santa Barbara, California Area

• Provided full-scope legal support for the Sonos global HR organization
• Managed and executed implementation of the SaaS contract lifecycle management system for the Sonos legal team and select internal stakeholders
• Acted as project manager and primary compliance officer for a material reduction-in-force in the US
• Served as primary liaison to outside employment counsel for US and APAC regions, including renegotiation/restructure of retainer agreements
• Drafted a standardized Sonos Master Services Agreement and templates for services provided by staffing and recruiting agencies

• Key member of leadership team effecting the sale of Visible to Vocus, Inc. in September, 2014
• Key member of leadership team for Visible's acquisition of and merger with Cymfony, Inc. in 2010
• Created, negotiated, and executed full-scope commercial SaaS contracts
• Partnered with Human Resources on significant/strategic employee matters
• Lead operations practice for Sales organization
• Managed key third party vendor relationships

• Created and negotiated contracts and statements of work for both direct and partner offerings
• Prepared proposals and other pre-sales materials for Sales and Executive teams
• Served as lead on global sales/product requests (RFIs and RFPs)
• Collaborated with Technical, Analytics, and Marketing teams to extract key client insights for versioning into sales collateral
• Lead implementation and served as primary administrator of Salesforce.com CRM system

• Performed data mining, text mining, and network analysis on unstructured and structured social media data in order to identify key trends and influential authors
• Prepared and presented reports of above data and resultant strategic analysis for agencies and end-user Global 2000 clients

• Served as primary legal counsel and general manager of $20M partnership formed to purchase and renovate the historic landmark Paramount Theatre in Seattle
• Oversaw all legal negotiations, lease transactions, audits, record-keeping and managed support staff for the partnership
• Negotiated with the City of Seattle on behalf of the partnership regarding the acquisition of real estate development rights connected with the theatre property

• Drafted motions and briefs in support of in settlement negotiations/trial for large scale environmental insurance coverage cases
• Represented the firm in joint defense counsel strategy sessions and conducted witness interviews and depositions
• Headed summer internship program and managed administration of contract attorneys and support staff

J.D., Law

B.A., Philosophy

Ma, Psychology