General Counsel

• Jan 2023 - Present

Associate Counsel, Contracts (CRG)

• Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

Negotiated an array of corporate and study-related vendor agreements across all service lines of the Clinical Research Group ("CRG") in APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and North America.Advised business stakeholders on a variety of legal questions related to commercial contracting, including confidentiality, general contract elements, enforceability, implementation, and compliance.Collaborated with business stakeholders to create innovative contracting solutions to suit unique business needs.Won a 2022 SPOT Award for contributions to the Legal team’s year-end contracting effort. Show less

Secondment Contract Specialist (Legal)

• Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

Negotiated NDAs, MSAs, work orders, and software licensing agreements utilizing sound professional judgment and internal contracting considerations.

Site Contract Specialist (Study Start-up)

• Jun 2021 - Nov 2021

Facilitated contract and budget negotiations between clinical research trial sponsors and participating study sites for ground-breaking biopharma therapies.Maintained multiple internal tracking systems simultaneously to provide real-time project status updates to stakeholders.Prepared comprehensive contract and budget escalations for study sponsor evaluation.

Associate Attorney

• Oct 2019 - Jun 2021

Served as the firm’s primary commercial contracts negotiator by preparing a wide variety of agreements (e.g. service agreements, sales representative agreements, software licensing agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, liability waivers, releases, Independent Contractor agreements, MSAs, SOWs, and moorage agreements). Supported the Real Estate practice group by overseeing multi-million dollar commercial real estate transactions; preparing and negotiating transaction documents (e.g. purchase and sale agreements, deeds, promissory notes, deeds of trust, purchase options, and memoranda); serving as the firm's point-person for residential and commercial leasing; advising residential and commercial landlords regarding the Washington Landlord-Tenant Act and the Washington Eviction Moratorium; authoring creative solutions for commercial landlords and tenants due to deleterious effects of COVID-19 (including complex lease amendments and lease settlements); and serving as the firm's knowledge source on the Washington Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act. Supported the Commercial Transactions and Business practice groups by forming legal entities (e.g. for-profit corporations, non-profit corporations, condominium associations, limited liability companies, and real estate holding companies); preparing formation and governing documents (e.g. articles of incorporation, operating agreements, bylaws, and resolutions in lieu of organizational meetings); and advising clients on corporate governance (e.g. meeting notices, meeting minutes, director and officer removal, Board control, and critical corporate resolutions). Performed comprehensive legal research on topics including successor liability, lien priority, accommodation under the Washington Law Against Discrimination, corporate personal liability protections and indemnity, and cumulative voting. Served as substitute counsel for §341 bankruptcy hearings. Show less

Lease Administrator

• Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

Served as lease portfolio manager for Amazon’s Global Corporate Headquarters in South Lake Union. Processed rent and legal documents (Commencement Letters, Estoppels, SNDAs, ROFOs, and ROFRs) for over 100 long-term and short-term leased sites throughout the United States and Canada in the Global Real Estate & Facilities (GREF) business group. Authored a white paper that successfully doubled the GREF Lease Administration team's FTE count to efficiently manage Amazon’s complex leasehold portfolio. Reconciled accounts to ensure accurate operating expense payments by forging productive relationships with landlords and meticulously maintaining accounting records. Served as liaison between Amazon Legal and the GREF Lease Administration team by holding monthly check-in meetings to evaluate the efficacy of current processes. Show less

Legal Operations Manager

• Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

Successfully implemented the Legal Tracker solution for domestic operations to provide measurable analytics of corporate legal spend. Coordinated 45-50 employees across 5 countries and outside counsel as the Global Project Manager for an enterprise-wide initiative to overhaul the company’s GDPR policies and procedures. Successfully implemented the Legal Tracker solution for domestic operations to provide measurable analytics of corporate legal spend. Coordinated 45-50 employees across 5 countries and outside counsel as the Global Project Manager for an enterprise-wide initiative to overhaul the company’s GDPR policies and procedures.

Paralegal II

• May 2018 - Jun 2018

Collaborated with the Commercial and Contract Management Team to compose standardized empowerment language for use in negotiating Enterprise Support contracts. Analyzed and evaluated non-standard contracts to identify negotiation trends and prioritize concessions based on frequency. Composed annotations to Microsoft’s data protection contract addenda relating to GDPR enforcement. Composed annotations to Microsoft’s revised versions of service agreements as guidance to field contract negotiators. Show less

Corporate Counsel

• Jan 2016 - Oct 2017

Established Opportune LP’s legal department in response to the growing need for high-level legal expertise regarding employment law compliance requirements, strategic positioning in client and vendor contracts, and complex negotiations with sophisticated target clients.Composed and negotiated client proposals, client service agreements, and vendor service agreements to reduce the company’s potential for loss and create a strategic advantage in the event of litigation.Counseled employees on company policies and moderated employment termination sessions to reduce the risk of legal action against the company.Collaborated with the Process & Technology practice group to develop business process flows and narratives for all company departments to implement an efficient, systems-based approach to daily accounting, finance, and land administration processes thereby significantly reducing non-billable hours. Show less

Legal Counsel - Land Administration

• May 2014 - Jan 2016

Established the Land Due Diligence consulting service line for Oil & Gas acquisitions and divestitures to create new revenue streams for the company and served as Project Consultant on interest verification for a $1B Reserve-Based Lending report, in-house due diligence for a $300M acquisition in the Arkoma Basin and a $280M divestiture in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and title opinion analysis for a $150M acquisition in the Eagle Ford play.

Lease & Division Order Analyst

• Oct 2012 - May 2014

Developed and instituted a method of evaluating title opinions to track the status of identified curative title issues, efficiently increasing the integrity of the company’s real property interest in its Oil & Gas assets. Composed Memorandum of Law advising the General Counsel of applicable New Mexico natural resources statutes to mitigate the company’s liability for interest payments on royalty disbursements. Project lead analyzing Consent to Assign language in over 500 Oil & Gas leases and contracts to ensure the feasibility of a corporate merger. Project lead on acreage reconciliation of 5,500-acre South Texas drilling unit to represent an accurate leasehold position to potential buyers. Show less

Petroleum Field Landman

• Oct 2011 - Oct 2012

Researched County Clerk real property, probate, lis pendens, and lien records on 24 tracts of land in Brazoria, Brazos, DeWitt, Fort Bend, Goliad, Harris, Houston, Limestone, Madison, Nacogdoches, Trinity, Victoria, Walker, and Webb counties to identify legal defects in title by correct application of the law and obtain an accurate accounting of mineral interest ownership for client leasing and development purposes. Researched County Clerk real property, probate, lis pendens, and lien records on 24 tracts of land in Brazoria, Brazos, DeWitt, Fort Bend, Goliad, Harris, Houston, Limestone, Madison, Nacogdoches, Trinity, Victoria, Walker, and Webb counties to identify legal defects in title by correct application of the law and obtain an accurate accounting of mineral interest ownership for client leasing and development purposes.