Sales Management
Resume:
CHARLES J. WILLIAMSON
Attorney At Law
**** ****** ****** *****, *******, Texas 77082
Cell: 713-***-**** Email: **************@*****.***
OVERVIEW
• 14 years experience in civil litigation, primarily in complex cases • 10 years experience as In-house Counsel for three software technology firms, with focus on contracts • 10 years pre-legal experience - in high-profile, computer hardware and software strategic marketing and sales, including government (FAR/DFAR) contracting (NASA) (expired Secret clearance) • Personal/solo practice cases, with emphasis on commercial contractual matters, IT contracting, litigation management, EP contracting (energy), technology licensing, intellectual property and fraud, unlawful garnishment and bank levies • Contract/Project Attorney work (on significant cases): document review, depositions, case development, litigation management • Management experience (legal and pre-legal) and Discovery Review Project Team Leader • Published legal writer • B.S.- honors, M.B.A.- magna cum laud, J.D.- honors, LL.M. (Intellectual Property & Information Law – Pending; completed all course work)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CONTRACT/PROJECT ATTORNEY + SOLO PRACTITIONER 3/03 to Present
Contract/Project Attorney: UHY Advisors, Haynes & Boone LLP, Gardere Wynn LLP, Baker & Botts LLP, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Fleming & Assoc. LLP, Bailey Perrin & Bailey LLP, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Bracewell & Guliani LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meager & Flom LLP - this is a representative list of firms for whom I have worked on projects, through agencies or directly.
• Cases include: AIG (accounting & stock fraud), Bayer Corporation (Trayslol pharmaceutical), Austin Contractors (contract dispute), American Home Products (Phen-Fen pharmaceutical), Dell, Inc. (patent infringement and IT contracting), and much more that cannot be discussed.
• Encompassing: discovery review, taking/defending depositions, deposition preparation, case preparation (including issue identification and development), attending hearings, motion practice,
investigatory work, legal research and writing, special projects, and litigation management.
• Latest assignments: Project work - Large international financial case - under the direction of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Patent litigation - helped to build cases for settlement/trial; Engineering; Patent infringement - EP (oil field related) – for Houston Intel. Prop. boutique firm.
• Software: Ringtail (heavy use on DOJ investigation), Relativity (heaviest use), Logistix, others.
Solo Practice: contract disputes, company start-ups, regulation compliance and other litigation and transactional matters - for individuals and other legal entities. Appeal - current state court case: won in a mandated opinion by 7th Court of Appeals, Amarillo, Texas; reversal and remand – to be published in Westlaw and Lexis. Appeals at 3rd Court of Appeals, Austin, Texas - update: Petition for Review at Supreme Court of Texas; followed by Petition for Certiorari to U.S. Supreme Court.
SEVERN TRENT SYSTEMS - Houston, Texas 08/00 - 03/03
In-house Counsel and Contracts/Licensing/Contract Management Attorney - for multi-national software development company, with U.K. parent firm. (this U.S. subsidiary no longer in business – corp. reorg.)
Practice areas: Contracting, licensing and IT contracting, intellectual property, computer law, internet and e-commerce law, general corporate and employment law. Very successful management and resolution of high-profile contract disputes; saved multi-M$.
Contract types: Included, but are by no means limited to, Licensing, Maintenance, Development, Beta, Confidential Disclosure, Sales and Marketing, Web Site, Partnering, Joint Venture, Escrow, Loan, Distribution, OEM, Support Agreements, Service Agreements.
CHRISTIAN HILL & ASSOCIATES - Houston, Texas 08/97 - 07/00
Litigation Attorney: 160-200 file caseload in a very fast-paced civil litigation and workers’ compensation practice: Success rate: 98% - hearing, trial and appellate. A billable hours leader with approximately 2500 annually. (firm is no longer in practice; Mr. Hill is deceased)
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INFORUM, INC. (Div. of Medstat, Inc., Thompson Corp.) - Nashville, Tennessee 06/95 - 02/97
In-house Counsel and Contracts Manager: Negotiated joint venture agreements, teaming contracts, software and technology licenses. Worked on intellectual property matters. Setup contracting procedures to provide for quick flow of contracts between employer and clients, partners, others.
CHARLES J. WILLIAMSON, Attorney At Law - Houston, Texas 01/92 - 6/95
Solo Practitioner & Contract Assignments Attorney - While handling a broad variety of legal matters for my own clients, accepted short-term and long-term assignments from other attorneys for litigation and transactional support.
INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS LIBRARIES - Houston, Texas 02/88 - 01/89
Legal Services Representative for 300-employee software company. Provided legal support to sales, marketing, human resources and management. Negotiated, drafted and administered client licenses, joint venture, joint marketing and sales agreements. Established in-house trademarks system.
NON-LEGAL EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, On-Campus Houston locations - Adjunct Prof., MBA Program 09/04 -06/06
IBM CORPORATION - National Accounts Division. 09/81 - 05/87
Strategic Account Representative. Computer Systems - hardware and software. 100% Clubs. Government contracting with NASA and its supporting contractors (under FAR/DFAR). Secret Clearance - inactive.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC., - Strategic Accounts, Semiconductor Division. 08/78 - 09/81
Sr. Sales Engineer. Worldwide semiconductor procurement. Increased revenue from 17M$ to 36M$.
NCR CORPORATION, INC. - Strategic Accounts, Industrial & Commercial Div. 06/75 - 08/78
Sales and Marketing Associate. Computer system hardware and software marketing and sales to large industrial and commercial accounts in and around Hartford, Conn.
TRAVELERS INS. CO.; HARTFORD NATIONAL BANK- Hartford, Conn. 08/72 - 06/75
Computer programmer and systems analyst: designer-builder; commercial systems.
EDUCATION
LL.M. - Intellectual Property & Information Law - 3.4 GPA - University of Houston Law Center
Top 5 LL.M. in this field (*All course work completed; pending submission of Master’s Thesis)
J.D. - Law - South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas - 3.0 GPA - May, 1991 (A top moot ct. law sch.)
Honors/Activities: • Academic Achievement Grants
• Law Review, Note and Comment Editor • American Jurisprudence Award - Evidence
• Phi Delta Phi (Academic Honors Fraternity) • Law Review Scholarship
• Dean's Honor List (multiple semesters) • Inns of Court - Federal Practice
• Note: held law clerking jobs throughout law school to gain practical experience.
Publications:
• Law Review Case Note - 31 S. Tex. L. Rev. 723 (1991)
• Chapter 8, Private Judging, Handbook of ADR (2nd Ed), State Bar of Texas (1991)
• Cited contributor to first edition of O'Connor's Texas Rules: Civil Trials (1991)
M.B.A. - Concentrations in Marketing & Finance -- 3.5 GPA - University of Connecticut, Graduate
School of Business, Storrs, Conn. – Top 25 public grad. sch. • Magna Cum Laud - May, 1978
B.S. - Mathematics and Computer Science - 3.2 GPA - State Univ. of N. Y. at Albany – In top 35 U.S.
Universities academically - August, 1972: • Dean’s Honor List - Multiple semesters • State
University Scholarships. • Invited to attend grad. sch. For mathematics at UCLA.
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