HessConnect

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HessConnect | LinkedIn Strategy, Consulting, & Management for Lawyers 

Branding + Content Specialist

DJJ Law Offices

Responsible for overall outreach directions, communications, and strategies for this law firm. Created, implemented and managed online platforms, visibility to accelerate engagement. Nearly doubled client base within three months of execution, and positioned law firm as authority through various national publications.

JD + Marketing Director

President Swedish American Chamber of Commerce San Diego

President

I help time-starved lawyers + law firms build & strategically position what makes them unique into their online presence to connect with qualified clients and high-quality referral networks consistently. 

Are you ready to leverage LinkedIn for business growth? 
As a trained lawyer, I'll help you with industry-specific business development strategies. 
Short on time? I can even handle it all for you.        

𝙎𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝘾𝙀𝙎 
I offer custom online business development plans and strategies for lawyers, law firms, & business owners...

🟥   LINKEDIN CONTENT MARKETING (DONE FOR YOU)
▹ custom plans to create your online presence
▹ manage your online activity 
▹ engagement to build authority + develop quality client relationships consistently.

🟥   LINKEDIN CONSULTING (DONE WITH YOU)
Audit discovery & strategy sessions to help create content that resonates with your clients to build solid connections. 

🟥   LINKEDIN WORKSHOPS 
Presentations & workshops for law firms, law schools, conferences, law firm retreats, bar associations, & meetings.  
Topics include:
▹ LinkedIn Leveraged Lawyers
▹ Yawnworthy to Trustworthy Branding for Lawyers
▹ Promote & Protect: Social Media Policy 
▹ Content Making & Marketing

🟥   LEARN (ON YOUR OWN)
Private/firm-wide training or coaching on how to establish, build or elevate your online presence & best practices, (or conveniently via my Linked-In Leveraged Lawyers™ course.)         

𝙒𝙃𝙔 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙆 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙈𝙀
By combining a decade of business law + a decade of online business development, I offer a unique perspective on how to efficiently position you & your firm to connect, engage and build trust with your ideal client. I also understand the unique challenges, communication styles and regulatory requirements related to a lawyer's online activity.

❝ HessConnect understands online media for the legal industry! Law firms resist change in the technological arena. Viveca’s creative, nuanced know-how along with her legal background is critical for business growth. ~ Heidi Weaver, Esq. 

❝ With a wealth of marketing knowledge, Viveca sincerely cares about everyone who works with her. The value Viveca places on building relationships reflects the high quality of her work, making her a person you want on your team. ~ Evan Dwin, Esq. 

🟥   𝙇𝙀𝙏'𝙎 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙆
619.962.5504 / viveca@hessconnect.com / connect on LinkedIn 
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Viveca Hess, J.D.

Ohio Northern University

📌Serves as the chief legal officer of the University and oversees the provision of all legal services to the University; 

📌Has general charge of all legal matters pertaining to the University and its governing board; 

📌Advises the Board of opportunities and risks; and provides thoughtful analysis and counsel on a range of topics that confront the University; and

📌Advises Board committees and its officers, the President of the University, and other officers on legal questions as may be required.

Vice President and General Counsel

Ohio Northern University—Claude W. Pettit College of Law

Adjunct Instructor - Transactional Skills (Contracting)

Kentucky State University

📌Served as a general counsel for a public HBCU. Also served temporarily as Acting Chief of Staff and Acting Director of Veteran and Military Student Affairs.

📌Lead a team of diverse professionals while serving on President’s Senior Leadership team for a university campus with over 2000 students and 135 full-time instructional faculty.

📌Provided legal advice to the University President, Board, faculty, and staff on a wide variety of issues.

📌Served as key legal advisor on employment law-related matters, including strategic human resources initiatives, employee relations, benefits, compensation, recruiting, diversity and inclusion.

📌Managed federal and state civil litigation and administrative proceedings involving employment law matters, including management of outside counsel, risk assessment, oversight of case discovery and case resolution.

📌Provided legal support to business units regarding procurement, contracts, and brand protection efforts.

📌Provided business-minded legal guidance and direction to relating to matters such as hiring, transitions, discipline, investigations, and wage-and hour matters.

📌Responded to actions initiated by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Labor, and state and local enforcement agency.

📌Provided strategic counsel supporting the development and drafting of employment-related policies and procedures.

📌Developed and directed overall and individual litigation strategy and coordinate with outside counsel.

📌Provided strategic leadership during discovery and investigation process.

📌Provided legal counsel and leadership in crisis-management situations.

📌Worked with Advancement and Finance on critical business initiatives.

📌Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated contracts, licenses, and leases.

General Counsel

Commonwealth of Kentucky

📌Served as General Counsel for Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB), its Executive Director, and EPSB staff.

📌Served as Assistant General Counsel for Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), its Commissioner, and KDE staff.

Assistant General Counsel

📌Served as Assistant Attorney General and Acting Executive Director of the Civil and Environmental Division. 

📌Responsible for managing five branches (Civil Litigation Branch, Opinions Branch, Boards and Agency Branch, Administrative Hearings Branch and Uninsured Employers Fund Branch) comprised of twenty attorneys and sixteen legal support specialists.

📌Represented Kentucky state agencies and officials who are parties in civil or administrative actions before state and federal courts as well as administrative tribunals such as the State Personnel Board and the Board of Claims. 

📌Defended the Commonwealth in civil actions involving constitutional challenges to Kentucky’s statutes.

Assistant Attorney General

Woodward, Hobson & Fulton, LLP

📌Provided legal advice to businesses and individuals on variety of matters.  
📌Defended clients involved in civil litigation.  
📌Exercised independent judgment when analyzing complex legal and factual issues with and without analogous precedent.  
📌Established case strategy and tactics.  
📌Prepared and argued pre-hearing motions and petitions. 
📌Identified relevant witnesses and documents through written discovery and depositions.
📌Provided effective and timely communications to clients, opposing counsel, hearing officers, and administrative law judges.
📌Specialized in insurance defense, professional malpractice, and commercial litigation.

Associate

Woodward Hobson & Fulton, LLP

Senior Litigation Paralegal

Mapother & Mapother, P.S.C.

Litigation Paralegal specializing in debtor and creditor law

Senior Paralegal

US Army

Provided legal support to Brigade and Battalion Commanders for a training brigade consisting of over 5000 soldiers; areas of support included administrative separation, courts-martial, line of duty investigations, reprimands, AR 15-6 investigations, and congressional inquiries; also technically supervised and trained seven battalion legal clerks, and maintained all legal files for entire Brigade Headquarters.

Served as liaison with installation Staff Judge Advocate (Criminal Law and Administrative Law Divisions) and prepared weekly/monthly/quarterly military justice reports.

Staff Sergeant, 1st Armor Training Brigade

Deployed as legal non-commissioned officer overseeing legal activities for 1100 soldiers in 10 units in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Supervised one enlisted soldier and maintained on HMMWV.  Assigned to Criminal Law Division as lawyer's assistant, supporting a General Court-Martial Convening Authority jurisdiction consisting of 5 Special Court-Martial Convening Authorities and 4450 soldiers.

Maintained office equipment and automation without loss while deployed; responsible for completing load plans for four 40 foot storage containers of Brigade assets during redeployment; also supervised the loading of equipment into storage containers during re-deployment from Bosnia-Herzegovina; nominated by BNCOC instructor for Distinguished Leadership Award.

Sergeant, 18th Military Police Brigade

Vice President and General Counsel📌 Collaborative Mission-Oriented Leader📌Strategic Problem-Solver & Turnaround Expert  📌Thought Leader📌Author📌Speaker📌Veteran

It has been said that you are a sum of your experiences and that could not be more true for me. My career path has been anything but traditional though I would not be the lawyer I am today if my journey had been any different.

After spending six years in the United States Army first as a legal specialist and then as a legal non-commissioned officer, I attended law school at night while working full-time during the day as a paralegal for a mid-size law firm in Louisville, Kentucky.

After spending a total of nine years with that law firm, first as a paralegal and then as an associate attorney specializing in insurance defense, I left private practice to work for the Commonwealth of Kentucky first with the Office of the Attorney General and then for the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE).

I worked at KDE in various roles including an Assistant General Counsel, an Assistant Director, and then as a General Counsel for the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB).  It was because of my work in education that I eventually landed my first job as a General Counsel for Kentucky State University. I left KSU in 2022 after receiving an invitation to serve as Ohio Northern University's second Vice President and General Counsel.

If I have learned anything throughout my career, I have learned that no one has all the answers. Through experience, I have learned a great deal of what I needed to propel myself forward.   However, I have also learned that it does not matter whether you are new to your career field or if you have practiced in your field for fifty years.  In my experience, becoming part of a community is the fastest way to propel you toward achieving your purpose and, ultimately, to success because the people in your community will be uniquely qualified to help, support, and lift others in the community up.

When I speak and write, my focus is helping others strengthen their purpose, fuel their passion, and find their creative, collaborative, diverse, and innovative ways to be effective as a lawyer in the business environment.

When you apply your C-Suite thinking at the intersection of law and business, you will quickly recognize your path to success as an in-house lawyer.

The views expressed by me are my views alone and do not constitute legal advice.

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