Linda Barrios

About Linda Barrios

With over 20 years of experience in corporate legal departments, I am a senior counsel at…

Experience

1. Senior Counsel- Corporate Legal Department

   Abbott

   Jan 2017 — Present

   Joined Abbott Legal Division in a newly-created role to provide legal support to global technology organization. • Lead technology transactions counsel for enterprise-wide contracting, balancing business expectations with legal and regulatory compliance• Draft and negotiate major technology contracts, including cloud services, software licensing, data licensing, and outsourcing• Provide legal support for Global Procurement and Contract Services functions• Initiated and led a cross functional process improvement project of forms, policies, and processes to help streamline, simplify, and automate applicable contracting processes • Created foundational IT contract templates and playbooks and delivered training to Abbott Global Procurement and Abbott commercial attorneys, focused on sharing knowledge and providing tools to achieve efficiencies in the Abbott contracting processes• Collaborated with Abbott privacy counsel to formulate a data privacy compliance strategy, including amending vendor agreements requiring updates to address data privacy and information security compliance. • Partnered with a cross functional team to develop and implement an open-source software usage policy.• Help manage disputes and claims (pre-litigation) with vendors• Manage, train, and develop a team of attorneys and paralegals

Skills

• Strategic Planning
• SEO
• Sales
• Corporate Law
• Legal Writing
• Management
• Contract Management
• Account Management
• Cloud Computing
• E-Commerce
• B2b
• Government
• Marketing
• Contract Negotiation
• Negotiation
• Email Marketing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Policy
• Software Licensing
• Employment Law
• Change Management
• Strategy
• Privacy Law