Brandon Daniels

President of Managed Services

Brandon Daniels is the President of Managed Services.  In this role, Brandon leads the organization’s strategy for all commercial and operational aspects of our Litigation & investigation, Compliance & Risk, and Corporate In-house Services.

Prior to Clutch Group, Brandon was the VP and Global Head of Litigation & investigations at CPA Global, a legal services outsourcing firm.  In his role at CPA Global he led the growth of the legal services business unit defining, building, and delivering innovative and award winning solutions and services for Fortune 1000 corporations.  With over 300 attorneys across the US and teams in Europe and Asia he worked with clients to coordinate regulatory matters and disputes globally.  In both internal and external roles he has extensive experience conducting and managing large litigation and investigation matters, including multi-million and billion dollar investigatory matters responding to the SEC, FTC and DOJ.

Key Matters & Clients

For one of the worlds largest financial institutions Brandon was the architect and lead client engagement manager for the creation of one of the largest LPO engagements in the market.  Also, he managed the first litigation and investigation matters directly with the senior in-house litigators and regulatory counsel to get the engagement off the ground. At the outset of the engagement, he worked with a steering committee within the bank to setup all aspects of their first LPO initiative.  In this engagement his group managed discovery within over 115 employment, SEC, FINRA, and commercial litigation and investigation matters each year.  With the bank he co-designed:

• Data transfer, processing, hosting, deactivation and destruction procedures
• A process for the lawyers to seamlessly engage, manage, and work with the LPO resources
• Technology that allows the client to complete a process of data analysis for early case assessment purposes
• Training programs on LPO and legal technology for the in-house lawyers, paralegals, and outside counsel
• Escalation processes for issues and a framework to resolve those issues
• A group dedicated to the organization to assist with the on-going implementation of the banks further legal services initiatives

For other large investment banks Brandon has co-led consulting exercises to redesign many of their compliance and legal processes to reduce cost and increase their responsiveness to the business.  He has identified issues and managed teams designed to:

• Build a knowledge management system for legal advice documentation across the business
• Create a FCPA compliance program and set up repeatable audit processes
• Create systems that would allow the lawyers to offload some of the more mundane compliance tasks (such as filing of interlocking positions, OBI clearance, etc.)
• Create a team that would draft and/or file and track some of their standard agreements (ISDAs, NDAs, CSCs, etc.) in lower cost jurisdictions
• And, create a team respond to FINRA/SEC routine requests in cost-efficient manner

For one of the world’s largest bioscience companies Brandon:

• Managed due diligence and discovery within 15 Qui-Tam, AKS, and Off-Label investigations
• Managed a complex product liability class action lawsuit with thousands of plaintiffs, multiple jurisdictions, over 25 million documents, and four different outside law firms
• Created and assisted in managing the collection, review, and production process for a large pharmaceutical patent litigation
• Coordinated the forensic retrieval and production of large scale electronic discovery within a human tissue MDL litigation

Brandon also has an extensive background in the management and application of legal technology. Over the last decade, working for firms such as LexisNexis, he has focused on applying technology to legal services in order to create efficiency, increase quality, and reduce risk for corporations.  He has managed the development or acquisition and implementation of knowledge management, performance tracking, data room, and litigation support software systems.  He has also led the creation of facilities and technology environments that have withstood both risk and security audits from some of the largest investment banks, bioscience companies, and technology corporations in the world.Brandon is frequently asked to speak and lecture at conferences and universities on trends in the legal market, risk and compliance needs for corporations, and the growing role of technology in the goal to mitigate risk and drive performance.

Brandon was born and raised in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts and now lives in Washington, DC with his 5 year old son.  He enjoys competitive boxing, which he did whilst studying at George Washington University, running, sailing, fishing, and, oddly enough, theoretical physics.

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