Fractional GC; Legal Operations, Governance, Privacy Consulting; Career Coaching

General Counsel and officer of innovative healthcare startup conglomerate, building, developing, and leading a high-performing legal team of 10 reports and a panel of over 25 outside counsel firms, and overseeing legal matters of high complexity and first impression, including health tech, product design, go to market strategies, market and product line expansions, and a vast array of material regulatory investigations and litigations. Implemented legal operations, realizing over 70% cost savings in year one.

Operated as general counsel to publicly traded health plans operating in Arizona, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, supporting contracting, network, compliance, finance, product implementation, risk management, market conduct inquiries and contested issues relating to Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA.

Member, commercial litigation, product liability, real estate, tax, and securities enforcement defense practice groups. Litigation attorney with proven strategic success in a broad array of complex regulatory and business disputes. Established a reputation as a service-oriented and pragmatic business partner, with a proven record of successfully representing clients before courts, administrative agencies and tribunals, and other regulatory boards, as well as alternative dispute forums. Developed affiliative and coaching leadership style that attracted teams of associates and paralegals; dedicated to team growth by providing training and mentoring concerning matters of factual complexity and data intensity.