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Firm Leadership

Charlene E. Davis, Esq., Founder & Principal

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Charlene is the founder of Davis Legal Group LLC and leads the firm in its business and legal endeavors.  Serving as a Principal within the firm, Charlene has experience as a corporate defense attorney and in-house regulatory advisor to domestic and international companies.

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Charlene has successfully defended companies and individuals in a variety of commercial litigation matters ranging from products liability to complex contract disputes. Charlene practices complex litigation in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  Her case portfolio includes matters related to healthcare law, white collar crime, products liability, commercial disputes, and complex litigation.

 

Her practice also includes handling various transactional law matters including commercial contracts to estate planning.  

 

Prior to establishing DLG, Charlene worked in private practice as a Business Litigation attorney and served in various legal clerkships.  Charlene has clerked for the Strike Force Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania drafting legal briefs related to complex criminal investigations. Her clerkship experience also includes both trial and appellate level clerkships in New Jersey.

 

Also, Charlene worked as an in-house corporate executive. Charlene spent fifteen years serving as Global Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, and Senior Compliance Counsel for various international and domestic pharmaceutical and medical device companies.  In this capacity, she built and managed corporate governance and healthcare compliance programs. She also created and implemented compliance technologies for the companies she supported.

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Charlene has served as an adjunct professor, lecturer, and advisor for law schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  She is also an Advisory Board Member for the Center of Compliance and Ethics at Temple University Beasley School of Law. 

 

Also, in 2013, Charlene was recognized in the New Jersey Law Journal's 50 Under 40 New Leaders of the Bar Award. 

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​Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey

  • U.S. District Court, New Jersey

  • Pennsylvania

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Education

  • Juris Doctor, Temple University Beasley School of Law

    • Barrister's Award, Outstanding Trial Advocacy​

    • Distinguished Performance, Internat'l Business Litigation

  • Bachelor of Science, Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University

    • Dean's List Honors​

    • National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Cornell Chapter

  • Credential of Readiness, Harvard Business School Online

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Publications / Radio / Television

  • Featured Guest, Spotlight: Supporting the Development of Auto-Immune Disease Therapies, WIMG Radio Station and Cable Television  (May '17)

  • Featured Guest, Healthcare & Ethics in a Technologically Advanced Age, WIMG Radio Station and Cable Television (March '16)

  • Author, The Sisyphean Pursuit of Creating a Culture of Compliance, The Temple 10-Q: Temple’s Business Law Magazine (March '19)

  • Author, As A Consequence: Trending Transparency, Technology & Esoterica, PharmaTech Outlook Magazine (December '18)

  • Highlighted, Careers in Compliance, The Temple 10-Q: Temple’s Business Law Magazine, (January '17)

  • Co-Author, Pennsylvania Restrictive Covenants, Compendium on Trade Secrets and Non-Compete Clauses, DRI Publications (December '08)

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