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Ignorance of the law remains no excuse. But when bedrock legal principles are unknowable without advanced training and experience, perhaps it should be. It’s one thing to get a speeding ticket when you disobey the posted speed limit signs. It’s something else altogether to get a speeding ticket when the signs are hidden and unreadable.

Counsel Consulting Group attacks and resolves this business paradox, focusing on the often incomprehensible, and often debilitating, risks of employment law claims and liabilities. The need for our services is most easily seen in the astounding number of six and seven figure employment-related judgments routinely rendered against businesses of all sizes and varieties (see The Mistakes of Others). We combine business and legal expertise to diagnose the potential trouble spots, and to create “preventive law” solutions, before the lawsuits and regulatory proceedings begin to drain time and money. See The CCG Solution and the Services sections of this website for details on how we do it.

CCG’S TRAINERS AND CONSULTANTS

We are not new to this field. CCG’s trainers and consultants have dedicated their professional lives to helping companies avoid lawsuits and liabilities -- not in classrooms, but in the real world of boardrooms and courtrooms, offices and factories, from Fortune 500’s to closely-held family businesses.

Most of our clients require the legal audit, management training, and forms and procedures assistance that meets the Supreme Court’s edicts, maximizes ROI, and minimizes the risk of personal liability among officers and directors (see The Problem and The CCG Solution). Our trainers and consultants have helped innumerable companies achieve those goals.

In addition, many of our clients require more specialized services. Counsel Consulting Group’s professional staff of consultants and trainers have been there and done that. We have the ability to bring focused expertise to the particular requirements of our clients.

For instance, for companies with an entrenched culture that increases the risk of sexual harassment complaints, we provide the services of trainers and consultants with, literally, decades of experience in the field. For companies dealing with affirmative action and diversity issues, we provide the services of trainers and consultants who bring extensive government agency and private enterprise experience to these unique issues. For companies concerned about compliance with overtime requirements, we provide the services of individuals who understand the arcane (and changing) legal issues and requirements.

Counsel Consulting Group also maintains a working relationship with the law firm of Powell Trachtman Logan Carrle & Lombardo, P.C. This allows us, as required by client needs, to draw upon the legal expertise and resources of Powell Trachtman, which has made employment law, and “preventive law,” a hallmark of its practice. More information on Powell Trachtman is available at www.powelltrachtman.com.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

MICHAEL G. TRACHTMAN, co-founder and CEO of Counsel Consulting Group, has been a practicing commercial trial lawyer and business attorney in the greater Philadelphia area since 1974, and is a founder and president of one of largest and fastest growing law firms in suburban Philadelphia. His career has focused on serving the interests of small and large businesses engaged in a variety of enterprises, such as manufacturing, banking, accounting,
e-commerce, health care, software development, consulting, insurance, wholesale distribution, retail sales, architecture, engineering, construction, real estate development, and a host of others.

Early in his career, Mr. Trachtman focused his professional efforts on devising unique methods through which businesses could avoid lawsuits and liabilities, particularly in the field of employment practices. In that capacity, for almost three decades he has trained and counseled the officers, key executives and managers of small and large companies on lawsuit prevention and business compliance strategies and techniques. In 1987, Simon and Schuster published his book, What Every Executive Better Know About the Law, which focuses on preventive law and litigation avoidance. Simon and Schuster also developed an audio cassette version of the book, featuring Mr. Trachtman. Both works have been distributed nationally. He has appeared on radio and television throughout the country, and has been the featured speaker for trade groups, companies and professional associations.

Mr. Trachtman, together with Ms. Clark, CCG’s President, is currently working on various employment law and HR web and computer-based compliance and litigation avoidance training programs, in conjunction with a major university.

Mr. Trachtman graduated with honors from the Villanova University School of Law in 1974, where he served as an editor of the Villanova Law Review, and was elected to the Order of the Coif, the law school’s highest honor. He graduated from Dickinson College with honors, in 1971.

Mr. Trachtman can be reached at mtrachtman@counselconsulting.com, or at the address and telephone number listed on the CCG Contact page.

EILEEN C. CLARK, co-founder and President of Counsel Consulting Group, served as the Vice President Human Resources of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, the largest wholesale pharmaceutical distributor in the United States, with over 10,000 employees in over fifty locations. In that capacity, she was responsible for all HR and employment law functions, and supervised more than 200 corporate and field HR professionals. She also served as Vice President Human Resources and Employment Counsel at AmerisourceBergen’s predecessor, AmeriSource Health Corporation.

In these capacities, Ms. Clark had ultimate responsibility for the design and implementation of HR compliance and liability avoidance methods and strategies, including hands-on management training, monitoring field compliance with all employment laws and regulations, the development of uniform forms and procedures for use by HR and management personnel throughout the country, responsibility for internal compliance audits, responsibility for government contracting compliance programs, supervision of internal complaint investigations, and supervision of outside employment counsel.

Ms. Clark, together with Mr. Trachtman, CCG’s CEO, is currently working on various employment law and HR web and computer-based compliance and litigation avoidance training programs, in conjunction with a major university.

Previously, Ms. Clark was a practicing attorney with a suburban Philadelphia law firm, where she concentrated her practice in employment law and business litigation. She is a 1991 graduate of Villanova University School of Law, and a 1988 graduate of Drexel University, graduating with highest honors with a BS in Business Administration.

Ms. Clark can be reached at eclark@counselconsulting.com, or at the address and telephone number listed on the CCG Contact page.

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