Manager Assistant
Resume:
Mark Garavaglia
Chicago, Illinois 60640
************@*******.***
Legal
Experience
****-**** ****** ************* & The Rotary Foundation, Evanston,
Illinois
2007 to 2010 Assistant General Counsel and Manager, Associate
Foundations
This position involved general managerial oversight and
development of tax-exempt
entities world-wide related to The Rotary Foundation of Rotary
International. These
entities were located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany,
India, Japan and the
United Kingdom. In addition to general managerial oversight, the
position involved
legal analysis of both domestic and foreign law, accounting and
tax issues, cash flow
and program expenditures.
1998 to 2007 Assistant General Counsel
This position involved practice areas such as contract, tax and
general corporate
work based on both domestic and foreign law. My responsibilities
included being appointed to lead the Rotary International
Strategic Planning Task Force overseeing the review of corporate
governance for the international association. The position also
involved primary oversight of international non-profit
foundations affiliated with The Rotary Foundation listed in the
previous section. Further responsibilities included assisting
with grant audits and litigation in various countries,
involvement in international contract negotiations and providing
regular counsel to the international Board of Directors and the
Board of Trustees.
1991 to 1998 General Counsel
In this position, I served as the first General Counsel for both
Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. Rotary
International is one of the world's largest and oldest non-
profit corporations, with member clubs in over 180 countries.
The position involved advising on matters of domestic and
foreign law and legislation, including associations, contract,
corporate, trademark and employment law. My duties also involved
management issues, including advising two corporate boards and
the chief operating officer.
As General Counsel, I oversaw as many as 35 staff members and
served as secretary
to various Board and association committees. These included
serving as the staff
liaison to the Board's executive committee, administration
committee, licensing,
marketing & sponsorship committee, bylaws committee and member
of the chief
operating officer's executive management team. During this
period, I was
significantly involved in the development of corporate-wide
policies regarding
licensing, sponsorship, trademark and employee practices.
1987 to 1991 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell (formerly Lord, Bissell &
Brook), Chicago, Illinois
Associate
This position involved experience in complex litigation with
emphasis in environmental and asbestos insurance coverage
matters. Further litigation experience also focused on legal
malpractice, aviation and securities law.
1986 to 1987 United States District Judge Peter Beer, New Orleans,
Louisiana
Judicial Clerk
This federal clerkship involved assisting a federal trial judge
in research, oversight
and preparation of trials and litigation based on federal and
state civil laws and federal criminal statutes.
1986 Mallesons Stephens Jaques, Perth, Australia
Intern
My responsibilities included research and writing in various
areas of Australian law.
1982 to
1985 Various clerkships with law firms in California, Illinois and
Louisiana
Other Professional
Experience
2004 Trinity College, Deerfield, Illinois
Adjunct Professor
Instructor for undergraduate class in constitutional law and
history
1985 Melbourne University, Department of Accountancy and Commercial Law
Melbourne, Australia
Tutor
This position involved instructing undergraduate students in
areas of Australian and
common law, with emphasis in contract, general business and
sales law.
Education
Present Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois,
Master of Divinity
Expected date of graduation, December 2011
1989 Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, Master of Laws
The course work component and thesis topic approval were
completed in 1985-86. The degree was conferred with the
completion of my thesis in 1989. I received three of four first
class honors papers in graduate study.
1984 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Juris Doctor, Cum
Laude
Tulane University Merit Scholarship
Finalist, Moot Court Client Counseling Competition
Participant, Tulane Criminal Clinic
1981 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,
B.A.
Economics and International Relations
Recipient of various university scholarships
Leadership positions in numerous co-curricular activities
1980 Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Selected for summer study
Admitted to
Practice Member, State Bar of Illinois, since 1984
Member, Federal Bar, Northern District of Illinois, since 1988
Associations Member, Board of Directors, Tyndale Theological Seminary,
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, 2009 to present
Publications
2002 "The Value of the Post-Modern Child: Property, Personhood or
Purgatory?"
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Vol. 80, No. 1 (Fall
2002)
1991 "In Search of the Proper Law in Transnational Commercial
Disputes,"
New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative
Law, Vol. 12,
Nos. 1 & 2 (1991)
1986 "Shark Repellents, Golden Parachutes, Crown Jewels and
Imagination: Defending
Against Hostile Takeovers in Australia and the United States,"
The Australian Business Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 5 (October,
1986).
References Dr. Harold Netland
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Andrew McDonald
Chief of Staff, Rotary International
Evanston, Illinois
Geoff Woie
Controller, Rotary International
Evanston, Illinois
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