Founder & Principal Attorney at Law Offices of Tina Obah (2024-03 – Present)
Manage an independent law practice, overseeing client intake, engagement, case strategy, regulatory filings, legal research, document preparation, and day-to-day firm operations.
- Advise and represent individuals and businesses in complex U.S. immigration matters, including family-based petitions, humanitarian relief, removal proceedings, consular processing, and employment-based matters.
- Draft legal briefs, motions, declarations, responses to government requests, client advisories, engagement agreements, and supporting evidentiary submissions.
- Developed standardized templates, internal workflows, matter-management processes, and client-service procedures to improve consistency, efficiency, and risk management.
- Prepared for and sat for the California Bar Examination on July 28, 2026, while completing IAPP Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional coursework and continuing professional development in AI governance, privacy, legal technology, and commercial contracting.
Commercial Counsel at VideoAmp (2023-07 – 2024-02)
- Implemented GC AI, an AI-enabled legal tool for contract review and management, integrating the platform into contracting workflows to improve consistency, issue identification, and legal-service delivery.
- Drafted, reviewed, redlined, and negotiated commercial transactions related to all corporate agreements (sales, vendor (direct and indirect), Cloud Access, licensing, MSAs, SOWs, Cloud Provider Integration, Currency Data Evaluation, NDAs).
- Negotiated terms directly with counterparties and drafted amendments to such agreements.
- Tracked global privacy obligations, drafted and updated policies and data protection agreements, Data Processing Addendums, and shaped processes to manage global privacy risks and compliance.
- Oversaw contract process from start to finish.
- Provided legal advice on matters of strategic importance to company operations across several internal functions such as sales, business development, and finance.
- Reviewed agreements and communications for adherence to corporate policies, procedures, and IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) advertising guidelines while supporting sales and procurement.
Commercial Counsel at DNA Script (2021-12 – 2023-04)
- Led a comprehensive redesign and standardization of the company's contract-template suite across commercial, research, manufacturing, licensing, vendor, and confidentiality matters, creating scalable forms and more consistent risk positions.
- Developed clause guidance and negotiation playbooks for recurring contract issues and implemented LinkSquares as the company's CLM platform, strengthening intake, review, approval, execution, and contract-repository processes.
- Drafted, reviewed, redlined and negotiated a wide variety of agreements across many company departments, including Research and Development Agreements, Product Evaluation Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, SAAS agreements, Manufacturing Agreements, Reseller Agreements, Channel Partner Agreements, Cloud Provider Integration Agreements, Master Services Agreements, Vendor Agreements, Consulting Agreements, and Confidentiality Agreements.
- Drafted and finalized Board and committee meeting minutes, written consents, and subsidiary corporate records for the U.S. entity, coordinating with the French parent company.
- Reviewed and updated compliance policies, ensuring alignment with Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and False Claims Act.
- Advised cross-functional teams (Regulatory, HR, Finance, Commercial) on legal and compliance risks in a regulated biotech environment.
Commercial Counsel at Cimadex International LLC (2019-07 – 2021-11)
- Built the company's contracting infrastructure by creating its suite of standard commercial contract templates and implementing LinkSquares to centralize contract intake, lifecycle management, approvals, and executed-agreement records.
- Counseled C-Team and business unit leaders in a wide range of issues relating to business operations.
- Drafted, reviewed, redlined, and negotiated a wide range of commercial agreements, including sales, supply, distributorship, marketing, and technology agreements.
- Reviewed bid solicitation documents.
- Advice on data privacy, breach response, and compliance.
- Developed, maintained and ensured compliance with the Company's policies, procedures and standards.
- Assisted with all other legal matters relating to the Company's various business needs.
Contract Analyst at South Bay Workforce Investment Board (2018-11 – 2019-06)
- Developed and maintained a contract database including budget utilization, reporting requirements, and contacts.
- Drafted, reviewed, redlined, analyzed, and suggested changes to grant applications and professional services agreements, prepared and reviewed training provider contract proposals for public institutions, for-profit vocational schools and non-profit organizations.
- Created statements of work (SOWs) and work orders (WOs) using information received from stakeholders and/or suppliers.
- Evaluated bids and assisted with contract procurement process.
Attorney at L & A Legal Consultants (2016-04 – 2016-08)
- Prepared documents for filing in court and other agencies.
- Maintained litigation database.
- Prepared client communications, including retainer agreements, litigation hold letters, and joint defense agreements.
- Conducted legal research on issues of civil, corporate and contract law; drafted pleadings and court documents and facilitated client negotiations; analyzed contracts and conferred with various department heads to detect ambiguities, inaccurate statements, omissions of essential terms, and conflicts with possible legal prohibitions.
- Recommended contract modifications, and prepared amended agreements for approval; initiated changes in standard form contracts and conducted negotiations with clients.
Attorney at Ministry of Justice Abakaliki (2014-11 – 2015-09)
- Prosecuted criminal cases on behalf of the State.
- Advised the Director of Public Prosecutions on charges that should be brought against a suspect.
- Prepared subpoenas, motions, discovery and discovery responses; documented productions, deposition outlines and deposition exhibits.
- Conducted legal research researched and drafted legal correspondence.
Contract Administrator at TMV Ltd (2009-09 – 2014-07)
- Drafted, reviewed, redlined and analyzed appropriate contract language to protect the assets and interests of the organization.
- Assisted project Teams to obtain data needed to define contract requirements.
- Communicated efficiently and effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Created and managed templates for standard agreements.
