Patricia M.

Contract Management. Development of contract procedures, instructions and checklists. Creation and roll out of company-wide contract management protocol across agreement types and cross functional departments including Finance and Compliance including implementation of internal controls. Design and implementation of a document management system, including repository, intake & workflows (review/approval) and tracking metrics of the contract life cycle. Reconciling of current contracts and inventory master list including the detailing of terms, conditions and exceptions. Collaborating with legal counsel to merge existing service templates. Drafting and negotiating inbound & outbound contracts for clients and vendors. Tracking, monitoring, and reporting of contract status’ and metrics. Client complaint incident management. Corporate governance. Compliance support.

Contract Management. Process improvement planning in the areas of contracts management and compliance to create internal controls across functional areas. Tracking of matters and contracts for future obligations, expiration dates and other contractual deadlines. Weekly reporting of department workload. Interpretation of contractual terms and negotiation of confidentiality, consulting and vendor agreements, including statements of work, amendments, termination agreements and other ancillary agreements. Identified and provided guidance of legal and business risk. Transactional support including due diligence for intellectual property matters and customer disputes. Drafting of cease & desist letters, as well as settlement agreements. Maintenance, revision and improvement of templates. Compiled alternative and fall back language to standardize future negotiations.

Contract Management and negotiation of clinical research, confidentiality and vendor agreements, including statements of work and other ancillary agreements, as well as budget drafting. Preparation and presentation of timely reports regarding contract and budget status at clinical team meetings. Assistance in providing training in the area of contracts management to achieve consistent processes across functional areas. Implementation of contracts processes.

Contract Management: drafting, redlining, reviewing and negotiating agreements for confidentiality, consulting, vendor, software licensing and marketing agreements. Management of support staff. Department & goal planning. Mentoring of junior paralegal. Provide support to the Director of Legal including processing subpoenas and fraud issues, filing IP violations, drafting recall notices, responding to Attorney General Complaints and legal research on various matters. Implementation and management of departmental contract processes including workload intake and tracking/ monitoring of contracts for future obligations, expiration dates and other contractual deadlines.