Contract Drafting Essentials: Structuring, Analyzing, and Interpreting Business Agreements

Ms. Bloom is an experienced general counsel and senior executive. She is a thoughtful, incisive, and resourceful problem solver with an entrepreneurial mindset who has built legal and compliance departments from the ground up. Ms. Bloom has broad, hands-on experience leading legal and compliance functions, managing risk, and elevating healthcare compliance programs to industry standards and beyond. She is a trusted legal and business advisor who collaborates across functions to deliver practical solutions. She is also a talented, creative negotiator with expertise in drafting contracts and resolving complex, protracted disputes. Ms. Bloom is an engaging public speaker and an In-House Leader in the Law honoree. Currently, she is the General Counsel of Signiant and, through Versant Legal, provides outside general counsel services and compliance counseling to software companies, with particular expertise advising growth-stage healthcare IT companies.

Ms. Owens is Senior Legal Counsel at MathWorks, a technology company that creates software tools for engineering and simulation. She has extensive experience negotiating business contracts and intellectual property licenses in private sector, nonprofit, and government settings. Ms. Owens has served as chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Technology Law committee and is a frequent speaker on legal and technology topics.