Jeff brings extensive experience as a senior in-house legal executive, with a background advising boards of directors and executive leadership on employment, litigation, corporate governance, commercial transactions, privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and enterprise risk.
Before joining Ogletree, Jeffrey served as Deputy General Counsel at Vocate Education Solutions, Inc., where he advised the Board of Directors and executive leadership for a centralized organization serving multiple education brands. In that role, he handled a broad range of employment matters, including internal investigations, discipline and termination decisions, accommodations, leave issues, multistate employment compliance, and responses to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agency matters. He also directed employment-related eDiscovery, data collection, and risk assessments in high-exposure matters, and he managed outside counsel and litigation strategy.
Jeffrey also led privacy, cybersecurity, information governance, and incident-response initiatives, including breach-response and remediation efforts. He holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) credential. His transactional work included mergers and acquisitions, vendor contracting, intellectual property, and advertising matters. Jeffrey also is a graduate of the Boston University an ACC Mini MBA for In-House Counsel.
Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Contract Manager at Parexel International Corp. and a judicial law clerk for the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia.
