Experience

• Serves as primary outside counsel to North America subsidiaries of a global, multi-billion dollar chemical company, including providing general counsel support services on a broad variety of commercial, regulatory, employment, and other legal issues.
• Served in key role on client’s crisis management team following industrial accidents, including serving as lead counsel managing large litigation team to develop strategy for incident response, to coordinate with insurance carriers, and to defend claims arising from incidents.
• Led numerous internal compliance investigations for clients regarding issues such as violations of codes of conduct, EHSS and other regulatory issues, workplace conduct, and other matters.
• Assisted a multi-national company in developing a multifaceted internal process for addressing e-discovery requirements, including management of conflicts between U.S. discovery obligations and European privacy laws.
• Developed a detailed document retention policy and schedule for a multi-state U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
• Represented a large financial services company as the day-to-day coordinator of the firm's litigation team in a complex 50-plaintiff, three-state securities case involving investments in private placement variable annuities.
• Represents healthcare providers, health insurance companies and medical staff leaders regarding credentialing, peer review matters, physician privileges and healthcare reimbursement.
• Represented a large public hospital in a case involving credentialing actions against a disruptive physician, obtaining summary judgment on civil rights allegations and claims subject to the Healthcare Quality Improvement Act.
• Represented a medical group in claims against former partners for breach of the partnership agreement and violation of a non-compete provision.

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, Washington & Lee School of Law, 2002
• Order of the Coif
• Washington and Lee Law Review
• B.A., Washington and Lee University, 1993

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