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Robert Nagle

    ROBERT E. NAGLE
49 Peregrine Circle
Oak Park, California 91377-1322
(818) 865-2181 (home); (818) 312-3505 (cell); (818) 865-2183 (facsimile)
[email protected]; [email protected]

Senior legal advisor, reporting directly to County Counsel, and Board of Supervisors, specializing in litigation management, labor and employment law. Provides innovative strategic advice to senior management to achieve County goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Administrative Law Judge II 2009 - present

CUIAB - Oxnard Office
1901 N. Rice Avenue, Suite 300
Oxnard, CA 93030

Administrative Law Judge hearing unemployment insurance appeals from claimant, employers and the EDD.

Litigation Cost Manager             2003 to present
Office of County Counsel,
Los Angeles County, California

• Senior Legal Advisor to County Counsel and LA County=s Board of Supervisors. Directs litigation case management over $100 million budget. First year reduced legal expenses and judgments by over $40 million and obtained recoveries in excess of $15 million. Second year, maintained cost saving trend for the County.
• Responsible for development of innovation litigation strategies to reduce costs of litigation, maximize recoveries and implement remedial policies and procedures to minimize liabilities.

Corporate Consultant
SNTL Litigation Trust, Agoura Hills, California    2002 to 2003

• Designed strategy to utilize $1.3 billion Net Operating Loss (NOL) and successfully implemented plan of reorganization approved in June 2002 for Superior National Insurance Group to emerge from Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
• Directed litigation strategy that produced multi-million dollar income to reorganized company.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Superior National Insurance Group, Inc., Calabasas, California    1996 to 2002

• Managed three corporate legal vice presidents and thirty-five attorneys and staff.
• Prosecuted major medical providers, doctors and law firms for fraudulent billing practices against the company. Successfully obtained dismissal of lawsuits and multi-million dollar recoveries from plaintiffs.
• Obtained $135 million settlement from dispute with reinsurer.
• Reduced legal expenses by fifty percent during two-year period through aggressive litigation management techniques and strategic filing of cross-complaints.
• Advised senior executive management and board of directors on legal, regulatory and short and long term strategic issues.
• Drafted, reviewed, edited and negotiated company contracts, real estate transactions and leases, information technology leases, and vendor contracts.
• Drafted company employment policies and procedures.
• Supervised and managed in-house and outside counsel.
• Supervised and coordinated with local authorities internal and external investigations.
• Led effort by LA County Bar to file amicus brief in PLMC Group v. Drexler that resulted in the California Supreme Court upholding the right of in house counsel to recover attorney fees.

Senior Corporate Counsel
Farmers Group, Inc., Los Angeles, California 1986 – 1996

• Senior attorney that supervised attorneys and staff in managing litigation for national property/casualty insurance company with 18,000 employee and 16,000 independent insurance agents located in twenty-nine states.
• Managed litigation fallout from termination of rogue investigation unit in 1986.
• Advised senior management on legal, regulatory issues to comply with state and federal laws.
• Supervised over one hundred court and jury trials to successfully defend company against allegations of unfair competition (B&P Professions Code section 17200), antitrust, breach of contract, fraud, bad faith, wrongful termination, employment discrimination and/or harassment.
• Coordinated aspects of labor law issues, including: internal investigations, personnel policy and procedures, training programs, EEOC compliance, and resolution of employee disputes.
• Advised marketing department on strategy to conduct internal investigations into agent malfeasance.
• Drafted, designed and oversaw implementation of national agent appointment agreement.

Business Litigation Attorney
Bakst & Garber, Los Angeles, California    1983 to 1986

• Represented clients involving issues of employment litigation, business creation and dissolution, complex commercial litigation, personal injury defense, criminal defense, family law, probate and bankruptcy litigation.
• Conducted ten trials to resolution.
• Drafted pre-trial and post-trial pleadings, jury instructions and appellate briefs. Appeared in law and motion hearings and appellate court appearances in state and federal court.
• Drafted and negotiated contracts, leases and releases.

EDUCATION

Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, California
• Juris Doctorate Degree, 1983
• Dean's List, Moot Court Competition

Pepperdine University B Graziadio School of Business, Los Angeles, California
• Bachelor of Science Degree, Business Administration, 1979

ADMISSION TO PRACTICE

• California, 1984
• U.S. District Court, Central, Northern and Southern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 10th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• Los Angeles County Bar Corporate Law Department, Executive Committee
• USC Institute for Corporate Counsel, Advisory Board Member
• American Corporate Counsel Association
• California General Counsel Forum

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