Team  

• Presidents
• General Counsel
• Board of Advisors
• Other Legal Experts
  
  

• Presidents

Brightline Compliance's Presidents, Andrew Foose and Michael Johnson, are former senior trial attorneys in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, where they were hired under the Attorney General's Honors Program. During their time with the Department of Justice, they investigated and litigated numerous cases against employers across the country. They brought one of the Department of Justice's first "pattern or practice" sexual harassment cases. Through years of litigating cases against employers, they learned the pitfalls that undermine many employers in lawsuits. Brightline's training is designed to help employers avoid these pitfalls and minimize their exposure to lawsuits and prosecution.

Mr. Foose and Mr. Johnson are recognized as among the country's leading experts on conducting lawful and effective internal investigations. In addition to serving as expert witnesses in cases challenging the adequacy of employer's investigation procedures, Mr. Foose and Mr. Johnson provide public and on-site seminars around the country for in-house counsel, compliance officers, labor and employment attorneys, and human resource professionals. They have provided investigative training on-site for organizations such as Boeing, Coca-Cola, the Department of Homeland Security, the EEOC, Lockheed Martin, and the World Bank.

The United Nations selected Mr. Johnson to consult on the development of its sexual harassment policy and investigation procedures. The UN also selected Mr. Johnson to provide investigative training to UN staff in New York and in the UN's peacekeeping missions in the Congo and Sierra Leone.

Andrew Foose is a graduate of Harvard University, Columbia University School of Law, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs.
Michael Johnson is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School.


• General Counsel

Brightline's General Counsel, Katrina Campbell, has extensive experience helping companies meet their compliance and ethics obligations. She has worked as an attorney with a national law firm and as in-house counsel for large corporations. Her work has included leading the corporate governance initiative for an in-house legal department and developing and delivering compliance training programs for legal counsel, human resources professionals, and other employees. Ms. Campbell is active with the American Bar Association's (ABA's) Labor & Employment Section as a speaker, writer, and advocate for corporate counsel involvement in the ABA.
Katrina Campbell is a graduate of Hampton University and Harvard Law School.


• Board of Advisors

Brightline Compliance's Board of Advisors includes nationally-known in-house counsel and attorneys at large law firms, former government officials, and compliance and ethics officers, and experts in instructional design.

The Board of Advisors helps ensure that Brightline's services are not only legally accurate and kept up-to-date with legal changes, but that they provide practical guidance on how to deal with the "gray areas" that employees may face in the real world.

To learn more about the members of Brightline's Board of Advisors, please click here.



• Other Legal Experts
  
  

  Brightline's team of legal experts is a diverse group of lawyers, with wide-ranging experience and dynamic teaching and presentation skills. Here is a sample of our trainers and their expertise.
  

  Carol M. Merchasin
  Carol M. Merchasin is a lawyer and training consultant who delivers interactive training in the areas of harassment prevention, discrimination prevention, ethics and workplace investigations. She has trained thousands of employees from such diverse industries as financial services, pharmaceuticals, biomedical, media, manufacturing and technology. In addition, she has extensive experience in providing specialized training for managers and executives. In addition to delivering training, Ms. Merchasin is a co-founder of The Training Design Studio, which develops and designs webcasts that provide strategic business solutions in the areas of training, marketing and customer service.

  Ms. Merchasin is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a regular speaker at both regional and national SHRM conferences. She is a published author on the legal issues related to harassment training; the second edition of her book, Case Dismissed! Taking Your Harassment Training to Trial, was published by the American Bar Association (ABA) in June 2005. Ms. Merchasin is a graduate of Cedar Crest College and the Northeastern University School of Law, and a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
  

  Kristin Walinski
  Kristin Walinski is a labor and employment law expert with extensive experience advising clients, training compliance professionals, investigating claims, and defending clients in arbitrations. She has practiced as in-house corporate counsel for a Fortune 500 company as well as with a national law firm. Currently she serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law. Ms. Walinski volunteers extensively with students interested in becoming lawyers, and under her leadership, the teams have won local and national mock trial competitions. Ms. Walinski is active with the leadership of the Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Conference and the American Bar Association. Kristin Walinski is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. 

  Eugenia Roig Sockel
  Eugenia ("Genie") Roig Sockel is an engaging facilitator in the fields of employment discrimination, respectful communication skills, and diversity.  She has conducted large group trainings of employees and managers of Fortune 100 companies who left her trainings with a better understanding of their responsibility to comply with and uphold appropriate workplace conduct under Title VII, the ADA, the FMLA, the FLSA and other employment discrimination laws.  Genie also provides one-on-one sensitivity training for high-level executives and managers from large corporations to family owned businesses in industries as diverse as college athletics, the military, medicine and lending institutions.  Prior to her work as a trainer, Genie practiced law at the Chicago office of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather and Geraldson, a leader in the field of employment and labor law.   While at Seyfarth, Shaw, she defended Fortune 500 as well as smaller companies in employment discrimination complaints and lawsuits.  Genie Sockel is a graduate of Yale University and Georgetown Law School.