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Oak Brook, Illinois, United States

● Management of Legal Team. Oversee day-to-day legal operations, including tasking and direct reporting of Assistant General Counsel, two senior paralegals and administrative assistant. ● Commercial Contracting. Responsible for NICB’s commercial contracting. Negotiate, draft and revise all manner of complex commercial contracts including licensing, data use, SaaS, employment, severance, independent contractor, vendor, master service, commercial leases, confidentiality, non-solicitation, and other agreements.● Counsel Executive Team. Provide concise, actionable legal and strategic advice to NICB’s senior leadership team on all manner of issues including operational risks, employment/HR, product development, intellectual property (i.e. trademark and copyright), data privacy, and legislative impact. ● Litigation Management and Dispute Resolution. Resolve pre-litigation disputes and manage litigation docket. Identify, retain, and oversee outside counsel to protect NICB’s operations across all 50 states. Manage NICB subpoena and discovery compliance, including eDiscovery. Represent and defend NICB and NICB employees in depositions, mediation and settlement conferences; prepare NICB witnesses to testify.● Enterprise Risk Management. Develop and implement enterprise risk management program to identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate and monitor organizational risk. Manage company insurance portfolio.● Corporate Governance. Responsible for organizational compliance with By-Laws. Organize Annual Meeting of the Members and Bi-Annual Board of Governors meetings. Prepare corporate resolutions and maintain meeting minutes. ● Legal Review. Expeditiously review intelligence and published materials, including press releases, for legal content to minimize risk. Establish legal guidelines for limiting the use of personally identifiable information, while preserving the quality of NICB data analytics products.

Greater Chicago Area

Commercial, employment and business law attorney focused on helping clients resolve all manner of disputes in and out of court. Prepared and negotiated complex commercial agreements. Represented employers and business entities in all manner of employment actions, including those premised upon Title VII, ADA, ADEA, and the Illinois Human Rights Act as well as competition, non-solicitation, trade secrets, and wage and hour disputes.Representative experience included defeating a multi-million dollar class action data theft claim and prosecuting and defending high value breach of contract and fraud actions. I also represented consumers in a five day binding arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority where I obtained a large six-figure damages award.

Greater Chicago Area

Practiced in the areas of employment and labor, commercial litigation and general liability.Represented employers and business entities in state court and federal court in actions premised upon Title VII, ADA, ADEA, and the Illinois Human Rights Act. I represented clients in wide array of complex litigation including matters involving non-competition, non-solicitation, trade secrets, and wage and hour disputes, including FLSA class actions.Advocated for clients in disputes involving administrative bodies such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Human Rights Commission and the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Prosecuted contract disputes and defended premises liability claims.

General practice attorney

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History And Psychology - Double Major

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