Legal Public Relations

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Legal / Public Relations

• Christopher Bourque
• Hanoko Maholo
• Mi Li
• Qi Ling

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A Quick Overview

• Smallest FA
• 10 staff
• Report to V.P. of Finance
• Low-tech infrastructure
• Corel and Adobe
• Largely paper-based (avoid e-mail)
• Some paper management issues

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Organization Chart
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What We Do

• Represent petGRO in all legal proceedings
• Deal with all internal employee contracts
• Provide legal advice to all FAs
• Release media announcements set up interviews
  for the SMG
• Handle all media inquiries

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What Were Doing Right Now

• Three lawsuits
• Two minor, low-profile cases
• Likely to be settled out of court
• One major high-profile case
• 500,000 penalty
• Loss of a key patent