Hildja S. Saas

About Hildja S. Saas

Hildja Saas is a legal professional and licensed attorney that has worked as an Associate in real estate and business litigation. She has also worked on significant transactional matters with Purchase and Sale Agreements, Renegotiation of loans and reassignments of collateral for SBA loans, divestment from cannabis related investments. commercial leases, and other high value commercial transactions. Prior to this position, she worked on many long-term project based litigation and investigation matters. She has covered aspects of the litigation process including successful motion practice with summary judgment success, handling of litigation from inception of case through to settlement and trial prep, as well as the review of documents; researching legal aspects of a case; drafting memos, briefs, and motions; selecting documents for use in depositions; deposition prep; as well as reviewing deposition transcripts and drafting summaries at the damages stage. She has worked on a variety of internal investigations and litigation, including more than two years with Keller Rohrback on the MDL Opioid Litigation and Facebook data privacy cases on the plaintiffs side, almost two years with Mayer Brown on a GSA enforcement action, False Claims Act, and SEC inquiry involving construction and roofing; almost two years with Baker & McKenzie working on an FCPA internal investigation and litigation. In addition, she has taught Business Law within the Washington state community college transfer degree program at Skagit Valley College; as well as having taught Government Contracts, International Trade, International Litigation, and Administrative Law for George Washington University\'s paralegal program. As a published author and an editor for a law school journal, she is an excellent writer and conveys information appropriately for a wide variety of audiences. She is a creative problem solver and works very diligently to complete whatever tasks are given, as well as vigilant to raise other issues and points of inquiry that may arise in the litigation or investigation process. Hildja has provided legal services in a variety of transactional, intellectual property, and cannabis areas in addition to litigation experience. Specialized knowledge in various regulatory regimes include Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; OFAC, GSA Contracts/Procurement, False Claims Act; SEC investigations; FTC Second requests; M&A related regulatory requests; patent infringement; shareholder derivative suits, corporate divorce, and executive compensation.

Experience

1. Senior Legal Editor

   Thomson Reuters

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Work in a contract capacity to edit corporate documents for use by legal practitioners in M&A and a variety of corporate contracts for ThomsonReuters Practical Law.

Education

• Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II)

  Certificate, European Legal Studies, European Private Law

  2003 — 2003

• Seattle University School of Law

  JD, Law

  2001 — 2004

• Seattle University

  B.A., International Studies with a focus in Economics

  1997 — 1999

• University of Westminster

  Study Abroad, Diplomatic History - International Affairs

  1999 — 1999

• American University Washington College of Law

  Masters of Law, International Legal Studies; Certificate, International Business

  2007 — 2008