J Lade Heaton, J.D. Consulting on Individual & Business Ethics & Social Responsibility Former Practicing Attorney (39 years) Former AUS Senior Lecturer/Professor Former Fulbright Teaching Scholar RESUME - CV & NARRATIVE STATEMENT CURRENT EXPERIENCE: Consulting, Lecturing, & Seminars on Individual & Business Ethics & Social Responsibility 2011 – Current Position - Based upon collective experience of: 39 years as a practicing attorney for individuals and business 5 years as a senior lecturer at American University of Sharjah 1 year as a Fulbright Teaching Scholar - The issues, problems, & solutions for individual ethical decision making & business ethical decision making are related and similar. - Making positive & financial differences with individuals and business. INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: SENIOR LECTURER / PROFESSOR: Aug 2006 – July 2011 American University of Sharjah, School of Business & Management, U.A.E. - Taught Business Law – Western Perspective - Taught Business Ethics – Western & Global Perspective - Participant in review of potential new faculty hires in area of Business Law & Management - Keynote luncheon speaker for Business, Information & Management Academy - School of Business representative on University student grievance committee - Organized day seminar with Arab lawyers covering contracts, Islamic banking, international law, & real estate law - Business School faculty representative on university scholarship committee - Ethics Course Coordinator between other ethics faculty FULBRIGHT TEACHING SCHOLAR: 2002-2003 school year Ukraine at the Ternopil Academy of National Economy (now Ternopil State Economic University), Center of European International Studies, Ukrainian–Dutch Faculty of Economics & Management - Taught Business Law - Western Perspective vs. Ukraine Perspective - Taught Business Ethics – Western European Perspective vs. Ukraine Perspective - Reviewed Ukrainian to English translations of administrators - Proposed future TANE sponsored business training seminars for Ukrainian business entities with Western European & USA business entities - Participant in Ukrainian small business sponsored round table meetings to develop understanding & contacts with Ukrainian business leaders and lawyers - Gave local press interviews talking about similarities in business - Received honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa CUMULATIVE PERSONAL RESULT: An eclectic legal, teaching, & civic/political career involving traditional firm practice, solo practice, house counsel practice, corporate officer experience, government service as both a legislative general counsel attorney and as a property evaluation hearing examiner, graduate student (MBA) teaching experience, working adult and undergraduate student teaching experience, political advising local, state & national candidates, local planning & city/county commission appearances, lobbying, fundraising, advising Ukrainian small business regarding relations with United States businesses, teaching and advising United Arab Emirates students in local, regional, & international business law and business ethics issues and substantial career wide pro bono involvement has uniquely positioned me to be able to utilize this relevant experience for those business entities, and individuals who find themselves involved with unique issues involving ethics and social responsibility by being able to offer resourceful and effective solutions now. DOMESTIC U.S.A. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CHRONILOGICALY: ATTORNEY/CIVIL AND CORPORATE PRACTICE: June 1972 – July 2011 - Full & part time practice - Business formations & business issues for “C” & “S” corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships & joint ventures - Estate planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, probate, charitable giving, & charitable capital campaigns for nonprofit organizations - Real property issues, including brokers/agents, buyers/sellers, buy/sell contracts, zoning & conditional use problems, water rights, landlord tenant problems, & boundary disputes - General work before all Court levels, including Federal and State jurisdictions, representation before state administrative bodies and the Utah State Legislature - Pro bono fee work with individual, business, national, international and political clients FACULTY ADJUNCT PROFESSOR – WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, SALT LAKE CITY, UT: 2004 - 2005 - Teaching Master of Business Administration & Master of Business Administration Technology Management graduate students Legal and Strategic Issues in Financing Technology Ventures, Business Ethics, & Business Law courses. FACULTY ADJUNCT PROFESSOR – UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE, WASATCH CAMPUS, HEBER CITY: 2000 – 2002 - Taught Business Law and Ethics & Values classes to undergraduate business students PARK CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 2000 – 2002 - Attorney advisor for Board of Trustees regarding fundraising campaigns, conflict of interest issues CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT: United Park City Mines Company, Park City, Utah 1999 - Functioned as in-house counsel to mining and real estate development company on legal, political, environmental, real estate, and public relations matters - Legal opinions on matters of annexation, partition, mining claims, water rights, general real estate, local planning commission, and municipal affairs FACULTY INSTRUCTOR - UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, PARK CITY EXTENSION, DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION: 1998 – 2001 - Taught Business Formations & Estate Planning Fundamentals lifelong learning classes HEARING EXAMINER, BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: Salt Lake County, Utah 1992 – 1994 - Part time seasonal position only - Hearing examiner for taxpayer (personal & corporate) appeals of real property valuation assessments of residential and commercial property - Presided over hearings, took evidence from taxpayers, assessor's office and appraisers, ruled on evidentiary issues, and issued over 150 written opinions ASSOCIATE LEGISLATIVE GENERAL COUNSEL: Utah State Legislature, Capitol Building, Salt Lake City, UT 1974 – 1980 - Full & part time practice depending on legislature being in session - Worked with General Sessions, Budget Sessions, Interim Legislative Committee Work and Special Sessions of the Utah State Legislature - Work included legislative bill drafting, advisory opinions to legislators and committees, and addressing the constitutionality of proposed statutes - Also involved in strategy with legislators and committees to assure bill passage OTHER NON-LEGAL EXPERIENCE: PRINCIPAL REAL ESTATE BROKER: - Appraising, sales and purchase of residential, commercial, leasing, farm and ranch land, recreational property, building lots and business opportunities COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE/HOUSE COUNSEL: First Security Realtors, First Security Bank, Salt Lake City, UT - Attended Northwestern School of Professional Studies on Syndications and Real Estate Investment Trusts REAL ESTATE APPRAISER: - Member of National Association of Real Estate Appraisers POLITICAL ADVISOR: - Helped various local and statewide candidates run for U.S. Congress or Utah Legislature with fundraising, strategy conferences, policy positions, & lobbying - Personally ran for Salt Lake County Attorney for a “hands on” experience EDUCATION AND BAR ADMISSIONS: TERNOPIL ACADEMY OF NATIONAL ECONOMY – UKRAINE - Honorary Doctor Honoris Causa – 2003 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: - Doctorate of Jurisprudence-Law - 1972 - Bachelor of Science-Political Science & Economics - 1969 - Certificate in International Relations - 1969 BAR ADMISSIONS & ASSOCIATIONS: - United States Supreme Court - United States District Federal Court Utah - Utah State Supreme Court - Utah State Bar Association - #01443 NARRATIVE STATEMENT ON KEY QUALIFICATIONS Consensus Builder – Goal Achiever: Most important quality is that of consensus builder while keeping the ultimate goal in mind. Have the ability to bring people and issues together regardless of their differences and positions. Have the ability to get people to try something different while maintaining watchfulness over the group to insure that all participants are able to contribute, feel trust in the process and feel success. International Perspective: Working abroad has shown how cultural differences need to be appreciated and understood so that resulting perspective differences in society, education, & their relation to people and society can be maintained while common objectives are achieved. It can be accomplished with the right facilitator. Leading Change: As corporate vice president over legal/administrative affairs, I dealt with challenges that required ability to inform the C.E.O & C.F.O of both the positive and negative considerations needed for policy decisions. Similar requirements were needed in my performance as Associate Legislative General Counsel in drafting individual and committee legislation and delivering constitutional opinion letters, sometimes indicating constitutionality and other times indicating unconstitutionality. I have the ability to deliver both the positive and negative of any issue to the principals involved so that all facets may be adequately addressed. Leading People: My experience as corporate officer, legal practitioner, and instructor/lecturer, has required me to be in the forefront of meeting varying clients, students, and business associates all with different goals. Specific understanding of needs and goals were requisite in order for me to effectively point them in the right direction with the appropriate advice and legal work product. Results Driven: The business world, the practice of law, and the world of academia are never stagnant. It is constantly changing by internal and external forces. It required me to constantly anticipate change, so that goals could be achieved in mission statements, business plans, legal work for individual entities, preparation of legislation, and instruction of students. Business Acumen: The public exercise of government and the private conduct of business cannot be performed in a vacuum. I have had to be constantly aware of financial and political costs to achieve goals set, time factors within which goals had to be reached and the necessary technology and information required in each particular situation to reach goals efficiently and cost effectively. Building Coalitions/Communication: Being able to communicate and build coalitions and consensus has been part and parcel of my life’s work; in the corporate setting as corporate vice president of legal and administrative affairs, in the public sector as associate general counsel to the Utah State Legislature, and in private practice advising individual and corporate clients. Knowledge of Legislative Processes & Ability to Formulate Legislative Policy & Lobby Effectively: The legislative process of the State of Utah is a mirror image of the federal system. Experience, as associate legislative general counsel, in advising, drafting of legislation, and researching constitutional opinions can be used in either. Additionally, my private practice involvement with lobbying can also be used in either a federal or state legislative system. Lastly, this understanding enables me to join with peers in other countries and cultures to effectively produce results elsewhere. Knowledge of Equal Employment Civil Rights & Alternative Dispute Resolution: My experience has required knowledge of equal employment regulations, basic civil rights regulations, disability legislation along with the ability to handle complaints quickly, while building consensus among differing persons and utilizing grounded alternative dispute resolution techniques for appropriate compromise without the necessity of divisive litigation. REFERENCES: PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL – MAY BE CONTACTED DIRECTLY Dr. R. Malcolm Richards Dean, School of Business & Management American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Dr. Paul Williams Associate Dean, School of Business & Management American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Dr. Joe Wallis Department Head of Management, Marketing, & Public Administration American University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates David C. Anderson, Esq. Professional Colleague / Social Acquaintance Salt Lake City, UT USA Karen R. Williams Client / Social Acquaintance Park City, UT USA Reference Contact Information Provided Upon Request |
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“What we are
today comes from
our thoughts of
yesterday, and
our present
thoughts build our
life tomorrow.
Life is the
creation of our
mind.”
- Buddha
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