In-House Counsel Experience

UNC Health Care System, Associate General Counsel

• In-house counsel duties and responsibilities covering a wide variety of health law, compliance, self-insurance and risk management issues and transactions.
• Reviewed, drafted, and negotiated professional services and complex clinical healthcare contracts, including merger and acquisition agreements.
• Increased speed of transactions by 15%, thereby reducing client costs and improving efficiency and client satisfaction through the creation and administration of a contracts
• management system.
• Heightened budgeting accuracy by 10% while cultivating a culture of transactional regulatory compliance by guiding the annual contracts budgeting process in excess of $30
• Million annually.
• Analyzed medical malpractice legal claims and litigation for self-insurance fund, and developed strategies for successful outcomes.
• Developed and implemented system-wide policies, procedures, and programs to enhance workflow and ensure legal and regulatory compliance of healthcare and medical education activities.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant University Counsel – Primary attorney resource for Health Affairs Campus.

• Extensive experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating complex corporate and clinical healthcare or clinical research contracts in aggregate volume of more than $300 million.
• Analyzed state tort claims and litigation, and developed strategies for successful outcomes.
• Developed and implemented policies, procedures, and programs to ensure legal compliance with higher education laws (including Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act,
• copyright, and export regulations); financial laws (including Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Regulation Z); and health affairs laws (including Stark and Anti-kickback Statute).

Higher Education Faculty Experience – Charlotte School of Law, Interim Dean, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor

• Expertise in contracts law and tort law.
• Developed courses on how to conduct commercial and corporate transactions.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, Adjunct Professor

• Instruction in the fundamentals of legal reasoning, oral and written communication and appellate advocacy.
• Legal research instruction focused on 5 specific areas: 1) state statutes, 2) federal statutes, 3) administrative regulations, 4) common law, and 5) secondary resources.

Judicial Clerkship Experience

Supreme Court of North Carolina, Law Clerk for Chief Justice Burley B. Mitchell, Jr.

• Conducted legal research on cases before the North Carolina Supreme Court.
• Engaged in chambers conference discussions of cases before the Court assigned to the Chief Justice.
• Prepared draft opinions for the Chief Justice and press summaries of opinions.

Civic Activities

North Carolina State University

• Park Scholarship Regional Selection Committee Member — since 2001

Town of Waxhaw

• Parks, Culture & Recreation Advisory Board Member —2015 to 2018
  • Chair—2017 to 2018
  • Vice Chair—2015 to 2017

Charlotte Housing Authority

• Volunteer Hearing Officer — 2015 to 2018

Justice Initiatives, Inc.

• Member of Board of Directors – 2015 to 2017
  • Finance Committee

Union Symphony Society, Inc.

• Member of Board of Directors — 2014 to 2015
• Co-chair, Strategic Planning Committee — 2014 to 2015

Orange Congregations in Mission

• Member of Board of Directors — 2008 to 2011
• Chair, Strategic Planning Committee — 2009 to 2011

New Hope Elementary School

• Member of Orange District Re-accreditation Team for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation — 2009 to 2010
• Creation of Community Learning Center for at-risk students — 2009
• School Improvement Team Parent Representative — 2008 to 2011

Threshold, Inc.

• Member of Board of Directors – 2006 to 2009
  • Personnel Committee – 2006 to 2009

North Carolina Prisoners Legal Services, Inc.

• Member of Board of Directors – 2006 to 2008
  • Treasurer – 2007 to 2008

North Carolina Minority Executive Roundtable

• Cornerstone Member — since 2008

North Carolina Child Welfare Education Collaborative

• Statewide Advisory Board — Member 2003 to 2006

Education

• University of North Carolina School of Law, Juris Doctorate
• North Carolina State University, Bachelor of Science

Bar Admission

• North Carolina