Robert Parker Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Contract Drafting, Review and Negotiation• Drafting, Review, and Negotiation: Proficient in handling complex legal documents, including service agreements, statements of work, amendments, and addendums.• Risk Assessment: Provide strategic analysis, recommendations, and succinct summaries to senior business partners, ensuring informed decision-making.• Staffing Contract Leadership: Manage, organize, and lead staffing and direct hire contract processes. Emphasis on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating service agreements and related documents.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate seamlessly with multiple departments and affiliate companies to streamline the contractual process from inception to completion.• Legal Compliance: Ensure the legality of commercial and business terms within company contracts.• Contract Template Enhancements: Review and recommend updates to contract templates for optimal clarity and compliance.Other Legal Endeavors• Affiliate Business Support: Offer practical day-to-day advice and long-term legal analysis to various affiliate business units.• Legislative Monitoring: Stay abreast of federal case law and legislation updates across states served by company affiliates.• Complex Legal Projects: Plan, conduct, and execute multifaceted legal initiatives.• Practical Solutions: Develop effective and pragmatic solutions to intricate legal challenge.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Drafting and Negotiation: Proficient in handling complex legal documents, including service agreements, commercial contracts, and other transactional agreements.• Diverse Agreements: Extensive work with service agreements, purchase agreements, non-disclosure agreements, employment contracts, non-compete agreements, leases, and vendor contracts.• Strategic Analysis: Provide executives with legal insights, review contract terms, and recommend implications for informed decision-making.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate across departments to streamline effective contractual processes.Labor and Employment | Legal Compliance• Regulatory Guidance: Advise and guide the company and employees to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.• Laws and Regulations: Counsel the company on regulatory laws, including EEOC, ADA, Title VII, and others.• Risk Assessment: Identify and assess legal and compliance risks.• Internal Investigations: Lead and conduct internal investigations into policy breaches.• Compliance Best Practices: Research and recommend corporate compliance strategies, including policy drafting and modifications.• Employee Training: Develop training programs to ensure awareness of federal, state regulations, and internal policies.• Outside Counsel Management: Lead and direct outside counsel representing the company in various legal matters and litigation.• Licensing and Filings: Manage business licenses and state filings across cities, counties, and states.• EEOC Claims Processing: Respond to EEOC claims, including leading investigations and interviews.• Field Personnel Training: Develop and deliver training programs for field personnel.• Tenant-Side Lease Agreements: Review, draft, analyze, and negotiate tenant-side lease agreements.• Landlord-Side Agreements: Analyze landlord-side lease agreements, including new tenant agreements.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Consumer Protection - FCRA, FDCPA, DACA and OCSPA• Consumer Credit Representation: Represented consumers who have been the target of illegal practices and failure to comply with Federal statutes by credit card companies, collection agencies, law firms and other consumer entities.• Compliance Enforcement: Cases involved compliance lapses and attempts to illegally collect a debt and invasions of privacy, specifically with regards to a consumers credit report.• Regulatory Knowledge: Used specific compliance knowledge of the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Debt Adjustment Companies Act, and the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act.• Drafting, Research and Negotiations: Utilized drafting skills, research skills and negotiation skills, as well as litigating the matter before the courts. Debtor Defense• Consumer Debtor Defense: Matters consisted of representing defendant consumers against credit card companies, collection agencies, medical entities, and loan companies.• Achieving Desired Results for Clients: Working closely with the client to obtain the desired outcome, which often times involves a settlement.• Strategic Relationship Building: Developed good working relationships with opposing attorneys and the court system to efficiently work cases and provide effective representation for clients.• Contract Drafting: Utilized legal drafting skills to draft pleadings, motions, discovery, entries and other documents in addition to reviewing and responding to documents filed by opposing counsel.

Operated a solo practice and working to assist clients in a wide range of civil arenas. Co-counseled with Luftman, Heck and Associates, LLP on Fair Debt Collection Practices Act cases that resulted in monetary settlements for our clients. Projects also included drafting rental agreements, establishing trust funds, opening a limited liability corporation and several wills and living wills. Worked on document review projects in addition to individual client matters.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Worked closely with Grange’s team of attorneys in gathering information about claims during conference calls and via emails and in analyzing and identifying the many legal issues and aspects of a claim. Assisted the team of Grange attorneys in research and analysis of main and underlying legal issues involved in insurance claims.Prepared written memorandum and briefs on various legal issues for the Grange attorneys to use when giving advice to claims representatives and handling other legal aspects of insurance claims.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Reviewed cases, performed legal research, and drafted legal memorandum, briefs and motions to be filed with the court. Assisted in the preparation and filing of summons and complaints on behalf of clients bringing legal action against debt settlement companies working illegally in the state of Ohio.Reviewed motions and answers to summons and complaints from opposing counsel and assisted in the preparation and filing of answers on behalf of clients who had been sued by their credit card companies for delinquency.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Juris Doctor

Dean’s List Award – Fall, 2011 and Spring, 2012 CALI Award winner – Corporate Finance, Fall, 2011

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government

Minor: Economics

Diploma With Honors

Valedictorian