HUMAN RESOURCES

• Represent employers and management with respect to employment discrimination and harassment, wrongful termination, restrictive covenants, trade secret, employment agreements; agency investigations including unemployment compensation, wage-hour, discrimination and harassment; advise companies in personnel relations matters.

HEALTHCARE

• Advise clients regarding licensure and regulation of mail order pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, third party administrators, utilization review organizations, and preferred provider organizations. 

EXPERIENCE

Caremark (now CVS/Caremark), Senior Legal Counsel

• Provided primary legal support for human resources department
• Provided daily advice to management and human resources department on personnel relations matters
• Defended company in matters before the Department of Labor, Human Rights Commission, EEOC, OSHA, and the NAACP
• Drafted policies to ensure compliance with various local, state and federal laws
• Prepared and negotiated severance packages
• Prepared reduction-in-force plans, including notification in compliance with various state WARN Acts
• Provided legal support for compliance department
• Conducted investigations on issues reported to compliance department
• Provided legal support for mail order pharmacies
• Provided advice regarding compliance with pharmacy laws and licensure requirements

Streich Lang, P.A. (now Quarles & Brady Streich Lang, LLP)

• Practiced in the areas of human resources and commercial litigation

United States District Court, Phoenix, Arizona

• Served as judicial clerk to U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee

EDUCATION

Arizona State University, 1989
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

• Psi Chi National Honor Society

Arizona State University, 1995
Juris Doctorate

• Editorial Staff, Jurimetrics Journal