Legal and Compliance consultant for day-to-day operational and upstream corporate legal matters.

• Legal and compliance leader for a high-growth B2B and B2C consumer health services and technology startup.
• Led company-wide product, technology, and privacy initiatives for regulatory compliance and to maintain competitive advantage and meet other business objectives.
• Leveraged expertise in commercial contracts and licensing matters, including negotiating technology agreements with major enterprise vendors
• Built, scaled, and maintained data privacy technological and operational infrastructure.
• Developed and implemented robust compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures to establish a culture of ethical practices and accountability.
• Spearheaded the negotiation and execution of complex contracts with customers, vendors and strategic partners including SaaS, Data Protection, NDA, Vendor, AI service and AI partnership agreements.
• Provided expert legal counsel and guidance to executive leadership and clinical and business personnel on a wide range of corporate law and governance matters, including regulatory advice, product counseling, privacy and information security, litigation and dispute resolution, transactions, growth and scaling considerations, and others.
• Key accomplishments included:
• Implemented contract management system (CLMS) and built internal processes and controls.
• Spearheaded digital transformation of patient intake and registration.
• Overhauled core consents, ROIs, privacy policies, and Terms of Service.
• Migrated legacy contracts to smart repository.
• Created legal intake and tracking system.
• Defined legal KPIs and established metrics and targets for costs, efficiency, and outputs.
• Built generative AI integration strategy and led due diligence of AI integration into clinical delivery and business processes.

Independently managed complex corporate legal matters including contracting, regulatory compliance,
employment and HR issues, business transactions, M&A, risk mitigation, facilities, leases, and real estate,
vendors, finance, billing and collections, privacy, and litigation.
• Advised executive and senior leadership and key stakeholders while collaborating toward mission-driven goals.
• Led organizational privacy compliance and served as senior privacy resource providing legal advice on data and information privacy laws and regulations.
• Supervised and directed outside counsel and managed outside counsel spend.
• Led process improvement initiatives in legal and privacy spheres and provided advice and counsel as a key participant in enterprise-wide process improvement initiatives.
• Drove contracting initiatives and leveraged years of contract drafting and negotiation experience to improve outcomes and increase throughput on vendor and customer side, including SaaS Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Data Protection Agreements, and all other commercial matters.

Responsible for supporting research and public/private partnerships in a portfolio of departments in the School of Medicine, including the high-volume Pediatrics, Pathology, and Public Health Sciences departments. Key functions include negotiating contracts with pharma, academic research institutions, and government agencies including Clinical Trial Agreements (drug and device), Research Funding Agreements, CDA/NDAs, Data Use Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, CRADAs, and Collaboration Agreements, and a variety of compliance functions around Human Subject Research protection, Export Control, HIPAA/FERPA/HITECH, FDA regulations, institutional policies, and industry best practices. Graduate of UVA HR Talent Management's Leadership training program, Organizational Excellence's Lean Transformation program, and Agile/Scrum workshop.

Established and built a successful comprehensive transactional and litigation practice emphasizing business representation, including labor and employment, real estate, regulatory compliance, contract drafting and contract disputes, landlord-tenant, and general business matters.
• Acted as outside General Counsel for numerous businesses in diverse industries at various stages of their lifecycle.
• Developed deep litigation experience with over 400 appearances in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
• Mentored an oversaw associates and staff, coordinated training, and oversaw professional development for all junior attorneys and staff.
• Oversaw all business aspects and practice groups in the firm, including management, HR, financials, marketing, and vendors.
• Successfully led transition to successor firm after exit of founding partner of predecessor firm.

Established a law practice as the youngest attorney-entrepreneur in Virginia.

Law Clerk in the Investigations branch of the Office of Inspector General.

Researched legal issues affecting the Department of Corrections, Wrote legal memos and policy recommendations based on legal research.

Led interactive writing workshops for advanced students.

Tutored native speakers and E.S.L. Freshman through Graduate students in all stages of the writing process.