Corporate transactional work, business representation, and commercial real estate. Advise businesses and business owners in all aspects of their ownership including formation, ownership agreements, mergers/acquisitions, employment matters, corporate/technology compliance, trademarks, franchise, and commercial/sales agreements.

The firm concentrates its efforts in providing counsel and litigation services to commercial, corporate, insurance and financial services clients that find themselves embroiled in direct party fee disputes, prevailing party fee-shifting litigation, independent counsel reimbursement disputes, disputes involving allegations of billing fraud or malfeasance and/or other legal cost recovery or allocation actions. The firm also provides clients with comprehensive litigation management and legal operations services, including the efficient execution and implementation of litigation strategies, the implementation of prospective cost containment and cost recovery/reimbursement initiatives (including ESI-discovery initiatives) and budgeting, predictive modeling, data analytics and financial reporting on mass-tort, multi-jurisdictional litigation and other complex litigation.

• Lead and managed the legal department and all legal functions with a focus on supporting Sales by drafting, reviewing and negotiating its licensing, MSA, SOW, and SaaS agreements while working with 2 staff attorneys and contract manager.• Coordinated outside counsel regarding litigation and legal spend; standardized contracts and created templates, negotiated multi-million dollar contracts; established new processes and protocols for expanding product lines with a concentration in protecting intellectual property, limiting liability and negotiating vendor MSAs, SOWs, RFPs, NDAs; established and drafted human resource policies; drafted IT and software agreements for development and support; and software licensing; maintenance and SLAs for SaaS, cloud based, equipment and consulting.• Participated and negotiated in new and on-going litigation, subpoenas, and depositions. • Assisted in developing and enforcing company compliance and privacy policies, including transitioning to GDPR compliance. • Serviced ALL legal in-house needs, including the coordination of all outside counsel activities and legal spend. Managed and negotiated budgets, litigation, insurance (including cyber), sales, marketing, human resources, compliance within an ISO environment, marketing, contracts, and vendor agreements. Drafted and enforced privacy and compliance policies and procedures. Upgraded manual contract processes by implementing DocuSign, incorporating the CRM, and researching and scoping a document repository system with an eye to the synergy needed with other departments such as finance, sales, and human resources.• Negotiated all insurance policies resulting in a 30% reduction in premiums and settled legal controversies resulting in over $2M in cost savings to the company.

• Managed all compliance and corporate governance for this start-up organization.• Drafted all software and IT MSAs, NDAs, SOWs, and channel partner agreements as well as the operating agreement and executive compensation employment agreements. • Crafted standard demo and presented at tradeshows for litigation support services.• Represented the board of directors in reporting all sales, marketing, finance, and legal matters.• Exclusively worked with outsourced marketing company to develop logo, messaging, collateral, and website which assisted me in personally securing 3 beta partners to assist in proof of concept of the platform.• Lead 5 team members who focused on marketing, software development and sales.

• Developed and improved all sales agreements and workflow; coordinated the invoice practices to reflect contract terms; maintained all corporate records; negotiated all vendor and software licensing / channel partner agreements; oversaw human resource policies. • Obtained Safe Harbor Certification; oversaw privacy and compliance procedures.• Developed sales plans, budgets, and goals, personally and for sales representatives, utilizing the CRM that resulted in exceeding personal 6-month goal by 50% and sales representatives achieving a monthly upward revenue trend.

• Oversee Relativity (a document review platform) business line, including all products and services related to software sales, helpdesk support, project management, utilize overseas development team and resources; conduct in-person and webinar software demos; developed a formalized training program and trained overseas staff; develop quality control and workflow processes; create marketing material and initiate as well as suppport business development for software and service sales.• Corporate Counsel standardizing contracts and creating templates, negotiating contracts and establishing new processes and protocols for expanding product lines with a concentration in protecting intellectual property; establishing and drafting human resource policies; drafting IT agreements for development and support; software licensing and maintenance; and social networking and e-commerce platforms.

Business, Transactional, Contract Negotiation, Employment & Corporate LawAttorney providing sophisticated legal and negotiating services to businesses located in Illinois with a focus on business transactions such as company formation; corporate governance and compliance; employment issues; franchise matters; partner and shareholder disputes; general contracts, licensing, service and trademarks, vendor and lease negotiation; mergers and acquisitions; and business dispute resolution.

• Managing and budgeting for a 35 person staff that included 4 departments representing $40 million in revenue and maintaining a 25% gross profit margin. • Developing retail gas small business segment pricing strategy, marketing segmentation, creating advertising materials, establishing corporate tariff strategy and evaluating marketing strategy. • Generating, documenting and implementing effective processes in operations, contract administration, billing and customer call center for each business unit during an intense period of customer growth. • Participating in the contract negotiation and development of the retail energy software system for natural gas products that incorporated tariff logic for dispatch, storage balancing, contract management, customer care, billing and reporting.• Managing commodity wholesale supplier relationships and contractual obligations that included establishing supply acquisition strategies in accordance with corporate risk management policies.