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Experience
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
- Developed incident response plans across multinational public company clients covering over 50 individual departments, vendors, and internal stakeholders, resulting in special public recognition from a publicly traded company’s chief information security officer, chief technology officer, and chief executive officer for outstanding efforts.
- Designed, drafted, and negotiated thousands of data protection agreements, including review of vendor security questionnaires.
- Provided enterprisewide training on confidentiality and privacy and security, including to a number of entities subject to sectoral privacy laws such as HIPAA or GLBA.
- Provided routine oversight of incident response, including management of notification to Office of Civil Rights, state law regulators, and affected individuals for medical schools, hospital systems, and healthcare providers. Coordinated and oversaw third-party vendors providing ancillary services such as cyber insurers, public relations, code review, forensic data services, and threat modeling and assessment.
- Product design advice regarding the development of numerous healthcare technology apps and devices.
- Supported rollout of veterinary pharmacy clinics in retail context for multiple clients (representing both pharmacy providers and retail partners) including drafting and negotiating multiple agreements such as supply, pharmacy fulfillment, marketing, and licensing.
Benefits Administration
- Counseled Fortune 100 companies on design and administration of ERISA plans and developed cost-effective compliance strategies for employee benefits and executive compensation.
- Designed and managed client requests for proposals (RFPs) and negotiated multimillion-dollar contracts with plan vendors in both group health plan and retirement plan context.
- Negotiation of hundreds of pharmacy benefit management agreements.
- Advised companies on containing retiree healthcare costs in union and non-union environments. Designed wellness programs limiting medical expense outlay and led negotiations on collective bargaining agreements.
- Extensive experience with respect to crossover labor and employment issues inherent with various wellness program designs.
- Counseled clients on state-mandated health coverage, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), and HIPAA. Provided guidance during open enrollment and on comprehensive benefit plan administration.
- Assisted retail grocery and pharmacy chain with innovative primary care clinic rollout.
Labor & Employment
- Maintain significant traditional labor law experience regarding union avoidance, union containment, risk assessment, and collective bargaining agreement negotiation in the areas of aerospace, heavy equipment manufacturing, service, tool and die, automobile assembly and parts, etc.
- Develop a variety of employer policies relating to a wide span of compliance, including employee surveillance, monitoring, drafting of employee handbooks, evaluation of trade secret claims, and significant due diligence review of labor and employment compliance in M&A context.
- Counseled clients on a variety of employment, labor, and privacy laws with respect to COVID-19, including back-to-work scheduling, review of employee healthcare information, administration of vaccine clinics and well checks, and masking and vaccine mandates.
- Provided key partnership to pharmaceutical manufacturers on compliance issues, retention bonuses, and corporate sale.
- Addressed newly burgeoning issues with respect to AI used in employment context including automated decision-making technologies.
