Allen W. Nelson

Currently, Allen serves as the fractional General Counsel for a private equity-owned national retail company, an international family-owned retail company, as early stage EMS company, and other companies in various industries.

Allen was the General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Administrative Officer of one of the world’s largest publicly traded claims management firm, which operates in more than 70 countries around the world. Allen advised the company’s Board of Directors and senior management on a wide variety of legal and business issues including mergers and acquisitions, ethics and compliance, litigation matters, government investigations, and negotiations. At various times during his tenure, Allen was also responsible for internal audit, ethics and compliance, human resources, corporate communications, and real estate.

While serving as Chief Compliance Counsel, Allen also managed legal matters for the company’s political activities, its risk management function, and handled litigation, traditional labor and employment, and intellectual property matters.

Allen currently teaches an upper-level course on in-house practice at Duke University School of Law as a senior lecturing fellow. Topics include ethics and compliance, public company matters, litigation, international law, employment law, and a wide variety of other corporate law topics.