* Provide advice and guidance on a wide range of corporate matters, with a focus on supporting the enterprise sales team, contract drafting and review, and litigation matters. * Draft, negotiate, and review a wide variety of existing and new contracts with outside vendors, customers, and internal business stakeholders.* Ensure company agreements address risk management concerns, information security and privacy issues.

• Facebook Content Moderators’ Safe Workplace Litigation – Obtained a $62 million settlement for content moderators who experienced psychological trauma due to inadequate short-term and long-term safety protocols.• Nestlé Bottled Water Litigation – Represented consumers in litigation alleging that water was misbranded as “natural spring water” in governmental filings and on product labels.• Capacitors Price-Fixing Antitrust Litigation – Supported trial team in obtaining settlements totaling $439 million in class action involving anticompetitive conduct by global capacitor manufacturers.

• Negotiate a variety of complex commercial agreements.• Provide legal advice regarding privacy regulations and issues arising under data privacy laws and evolving public policy. • Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of business models based on monetizing user data.

• Investigated adequacy of internal controls related to product and information technology practices.• Investigated incidents in which personal information may have been improperly accessed, used, or disclosed in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other privacy laws.• Analyzed compliance with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent decree applicable to a company’s storage and transmission of data-to-data brokers/aggregators.

• Developed and taught graduate-level Public Administration and MBA courses, with an emphasis on regulatory compliance, public policy, data privacy, consumer protection, behavioral advertising, IT project management, and all topics included in the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) exam.• Mentored and trained MBA candidates regarding leadership, working on cross-functional teams, stakeholder analysis, management best practices, and business communication skills.

• Analyzed compliance with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent decree applicable to a company’s information security practices and data breach notification processes.• Evaluated medical technology devices for compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and recommended how to advise sophisticated clients regarding potential legal action.• Assessed compliance of pharmaceutical research practices to determine compliance with FDA new drug approval process for several cutting-edge pharmaceutical therapies.

Litigate complex business cases from inception through final resolution, including appellateproceedings. Investigate securities fraud, antitrust violations, corporate governance, and internal controls related to accounting and information technology practices. Results included:• Peregrine Systems Securities Litigation – Investigated alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by enterprise software manufacturer that restated financial statements by more than $500 million; Investigated accounting practices pertaining to channel partners; Recovered $117 million for investors.• Legato Systems Securities Litigation – Investigated accounting practices related to channel partners of storage software company; Recovered $85 million for investors.• Sonus Networks Securities Litigation – Investigated alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by cloud-based communications distributor; Recovered $40 million for investors in action arising from false statements in publicly-issued financial statements.• Rent-Way Securities Litigation – Recovered $30 million for investors in company that understated expenses and engaged in other accounting manipulations.• Textainer Securities Litigation – Recovered $10 million for limited partners that invested in steel intermodal shipping containers. Alleged that company breached fiduciary duties and violated federal proxy requirements when valuing partnership assets.• BearingPoint, Inc. Securities Litigation – Recovered $7.5 million for investors in action arising from deficient internal controls, inadequate due diligence, and failure to properly integrate the accounting systems of acquired companies by large consulting firm.

Represented both plaintiffs and defendants at nationally respected firm of trial attorneys. Cases included securities fraud, antitrust violations, employment law, defamation, intellectual property, and class actions in state and federal courts. Results include:• Suzuki Motor Corp. v. Consumers Union / Isuzu Motors v. Consumers Union – DefendedConsumer Reports magazine in cases brought by auto manufacturers alleging defamation andproduct disparagement. • Waveware Intellectual Property Litigation – Successfully represented WavewareCommunications in action against major data networking company for alleged theft ofintellectual property for synchronization technology used in handheld computing devices.• CBT Securities Litigation – Achieved significant corporate governance reforms throughderivative action brought by investor in the company's American Depository Shares. • Bank of America Securities Litigation – Represented shareholders in a class action allegingthat bank failed to pay a control premium upon merging with NationsBank.• McKesson Securities Litigation – Obtained settlement for two large shareholders, alleging thatmispricing of share ratios resulted in material misrepresentations regarding McKesson'sknowledge and due diligence conducted prior to its merger with HBOC.

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