Aaron Madfes

Experience

1. Legal Specialist (Fka Sr Litigation Paralegal), Manager

   Google

   Jan 2012 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Directly manage 4-5 reports, while assisting with efforts to help manage an overall team of 15-20+ Litigation Paralegals (aka. Legal Specialists), including Org Planning, headcount forecasting and requests,Lead 1:1s, career development, expectation setting, performance reviews, and compensation planning for my direct reports, as well as promotions, and Support Check-ins when needed,Lead Hiring Manager working with Recruiting on screening candidates, identifying, and hiring talent for my team (and as a cross-functional interviewer for Employment Legal),Standardized and improved onboarding materials for Nooglers to my team,Lead in developing standardized tracking metrics, reporting and transparency for the team\'s bandwidth,Launched and repeatedly run an annual report for my team with metrics, narratives, and insight into team’s progress for the year,Lead in drafting overall team guidance documentation, including; a centralized team playbook, on-call playbook, and How-to guides for core tooling including implementation of legal holds. Also, created a process for tracking challenges and project project pitches, a framework for expectation setting, matrixes for comparing expectations at each level for ease of alignment and reviews,Assist with planning team summit agendas, lead in drafting day of slides and talking points,Team Lead on working with Engineering teams on tooling development and project scoping, feedback and prioritization.As an Individual Contributor (while Managing):Senior Legal Specialist supporting a docket of Patent / Intellectual Property, General Litigation matters include large scale class actions, and Regulatory Investigation responses; Notable examples as an IC supported cases:IP case with 50+ products and functionalities from onset to trial;Lead support of numerous cases through eve of trial prep and trial (in NDCA, EDVA, EDTX and DED);Supported Google BETs with their first litigations as they merged into Google Litigation.

Education

• UCLA

  BA

  2000

Skills

• Trade Secrets
• Courts
• Legal Research
• Corporate Law
• Trials
• Legal Assistance
• Intellectual Property
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Litigation Support
• Patents
• Copyright Law
• Patent Litigation
• Westlaw
• Civil Litigation
• Pleadings