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Brooke Rodgers is a founding member, majority owner, and Managing Partner of Steinman & Rodgers. After more than a decade in practice, Ms. Rodgers’ clients seek her guidance to develop and implement effective compliance strategies in challenging jurisdictions and circumstances and to navigate the delicate balance of legal requirements and business needs. She offers comprehensive, customized solutions to address risks by coordinating directly with clients’ legal teams, audit committees, boards of directors, executives, and other business stakeholders.
Ms. Rodgers has experience designing, implementing, and testing compliance programs in organizations of all sizes. She regularly assists with the establishment, maintenance, and upgrade of due diligence policies and procedures. She works extensively with Steinman & Rodgers’ local counsel network on foreign legal issues and developing strategies to overcome the challenges inherent in transnational operations. Ms. Rodgers regularly conducts anti-corruption training for marketing personnel and overseas intermediaries.
She has worked on secondment to the legal departments at several Fortune 500 multinational corporations, which guides her practical approach to addressing compliance matters. She has guided clients through adjustments in existing procedures to address changing legal landscapes and business areas, developed staged implementation plans for resource sensitive compliance programs, and performed expedited reviews of third party relationships inherited in public acquisitions.
In addition to her anti-corruption work, Ms. Rodgers assists clients by writing contracts with intermediaries that account for foreign legal issues, designing lawful compensation structures in restrictive jurisdictions, settling disputes with intermediaries, and negotiating settlements with former contracting partners. Ms. Rodgers also has experience conducting internal reviews and investigations and settling voluntary disclosures.
Ms. Rodgers received her J.D. from the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary in 2005, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law. She graduated cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University in 2000. She is a member the District of Columbia Bar and an associate member of the Virginia State Bar.