Lauren Cohn

About Lauren Cohn

I am a strategic hands-on general counsel, business advisor and corporate secretary of Follett Content Solutions, LLC (“Follett”), a K-12 educational content company. As a trusted advisor to the executive management team, Board of Directors and senior leadership, I focus on achieving the company\'s business objectives while ensuring legal compliance and limiting risk. With a proven track record of negotiating large customer contracts and vendor agreements, I am customer focused and revenue driven. As a former litigator with insritutional knowledge, I am proactive in solving issues swiftly and in-house thereby reducing legal spend.

Experience

1. General Counsel & Secretary

   Follett Content Solutions

   Oct 2021 — Present · IL, US

   As a strategic hands-on general counsel, business advisor and corporate secretary of Follett Content Solutions, LLC, I am a trusted advisor to the executive management team, Board of Directors and senior leadership, I focus on achieving the companies’ business objectives while ensuring legal compliance and limiting risk. Accomplishments include:• Successfully led compliance initiatives to mitigate risk• Partnered with executive management team to support M&A (acquisitions, divestitures and integrations) • Directed litigation and successfully defended claims involving employment law, restrictive covenants and contract claims • Negotiated large customer contracts (SaaS) and high value vendor and customer contracts• Managed incentive equity program and corporate governance• Built high performing legal team• Implemented enterprise-wide DE & I initiative

Education

• Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology

  Juris Doctor

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  BACHELOR OF ARTS, POLITICAL SCIENCE