JoHannah Harrington
Chief Legal Officer
Executive Snapshot
JoHannah Harrington is a Chief Legal Officer who helps founders, executive teams, and investors build organizations that are ready for growth. She advises on governance, commercial transactions, capital raises, compliance, and the legal infrastructure businesses need to scale with confidence.
She has built legal and compliance functions from the ground up, managed governance across more than 160 entities in 40 countries, and guided organizations through complex transactions and financing events. Her Master of Public Health also provides a valuable perspective for healthcare organizations, physician practices, and other highly regulated businesses.
Why Clients Call JoHannah
Companies call JoHannah when growth starts creating complexity.
She understands that successful organizations eventually outgrow informal processes. As companies attract investors, expand into new markets, build leadership teams, or operate across multiple jurisdictions, they need more than legal advice. They need governance, structure, and experienced executive leadership that supports growth without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Clients typically turn to JoHannah when they are:
Preparing for investment, financing, acquisitions, or strategic growth.
Building governance and legal infrastructure that can scale with the business.
Working closely with boards of directors, investors, and executive leadership.
Negotiating sophisticated commercial transactions.
Managing multi-entity or international operations.
Strengthening compliance and organizational risk management.
Operating in healthcare, health technology, physician practices, or other highly regulated industries.
Looking for a Chief Legal Officer who understands both business growth and executive leadership.
JoHannah believes legal leadership creates its greatest value by giving founders, boards, investors, and executive teams the confidence to make informed decisions and build organizations prepared for their next stage of growth.
JoHannah’s Story
JoHannah Harrington has spent her career helping organizations build what growth demands next.
Whether serving as Chief Legal Officer, leading legal and compliance teams, supporting investors, or advising executive leadership, she has consistently been drawn to organizations in transition. High-growth companies, expanding enterprises, and mission-driven organizations all face the same challenge. As they grow, legal, governance, compliance, and operations must grow with them.
Her career reflects that passion for building. JoHannah has established legal and compliance functions, supported more than $200 million in funding activity, managed governance programs spanning more than 160 entities across 40 countries, and partnered with founders, investors, and executive teams navigating significant organizational change. Rather than viewing legal as a department that responds to problems, she believes it should help build the systems that allow businesses to scale successfully.
That perspective is reinforced by her educational background. In addition to earning her Juris Doctor, JoHannah earned a Master of Public Health, broadening her understanding of organizational systems, policy, and risk management. The combination gives her a unique ability to see legal issues within the broader context of how organizations operate, particularly in healthcare and other highly regulated industries.
Today, JoHannah works with founders, executive teams, boards, investors, healthcare organizations, and growing businesses that need experienced legal leadership capable of balancing governance, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth. She believes organizations are strongest when legal is embedded within the business, helping leadership build with confidence rather than simply responding to risk.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Fractional General Counsel
JoHannah joined Unified CLO to provide executive legal leadership to founder-led companies, growing businesses, and organizations navigating periods of growth and change. As part of Unified CLO's Client Success Team model, she partners with founders, CEOs, boards, and executive teams on corporate governance, commercial transactions, compliance, investor readiness, and day-to-day strategic legal counsel.
Her broad executive background allows her to quickly integrate into a client's leadership team, helping organizations build the legal infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.
Atlas
Chief Legal Officer
As Chief Legal Officer of Atlas, JoHannah served as a member of the executive leadership team for a global workforce solutions company operating across dozens of countries. She advised executive leadership and the Board of Directors on corporate governance, commercial transactions, employment, privacy, compliance, regulatory matters, and strategic business initiatives.
She worked closely with investors and executive leadership during a period of rapid organizational growth, helping strengthen the legal, governance, and operational framework necessary to support a complex international business.
Vice President, Compliance, Data Protection & Government Regulations
Prior to becoming Chief Legal Officer, JoHannah led Atlas's global compliance, data protection, and government regulations functions. She developed and strengthened enterprise compliance programs while advising leadership on regulatory strategy, privacy, ethics, and organizational risk across international operations.
Stat Zero
Co-Founder, President & General Counsel
JoHannah co-founded Stat Zero, where she combined legal leadership with executive management responsibilities as President and General Counsel. The experience gave her firsthand insight into the opportunities and challenges founders face while building a business, raising capital, developing strategy, and balancing legal considerations with day-to-day operational decisions.
As both a founder and executive, she understands the realities of building an organization from the ground up and brings that perspective to every client relationship.
JKT Consulting LLC
Managing Partner
As Managing Partner of JKT Consulting, JoHannah advised organizations on governance, compliance, business strategy, regulatory matters, and organizational development. Working across multiple industries strengthened her ability to quickly understand different business models and develop practical legal and operational solutions tailored to each client's objectives.
DLA Piper
Of Counsel
JoHannah served as Of Counsel with DLA Piper, one of the world's largest international law firms, where she advised clients on sophisticated legal and regulatory matters while continuing to build upon her extensive executive legal experience.
Palladium
Corporate Compliance Manager
JoHannah managed corporate compliance initiatives for Palladium, a global consulting firm focused on international development and social impact. She worked with leadership to strengthen compliance programs, governance, and organizational processes supporting complex international operations.
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Legal & Strategy ORISE Fellow
As a Legal & Strategy ORISE Fellow with the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, JoHannah combined her legal, policy, and public health backgrounds to support national initiatives promoting health, wellness, and physical activity. The experience reinforced her appreciation for thoughtful governance, public policy, and mission-driven leadership.
Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
Associate Director of Development
JoHannah began her career helping advance the mission of the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, where she supported fundraising and strategic development initiatives. Working closely with healthcare leaders and researchers provided an early appreciation for the intersection of mission, leadership, and organizational strategy that continues to influence her work today.
How JoHannah Helps Clients
Executive Legal Leadership
JoHannah serves as a strategic legal partner to founders, CEOs, boards of directors, and executive leadership teams navigating growth, organizational change, and increasingly complex business decisions. Whether serving as a Fractional General Counsel or partnering with an existing legal department, she helps organizations build legal functions that support the business while creating the structure needed for long-term success.
She believes the strongest legal departments are deeply connected to the business, providing practical guidance that allows leadership to make informed decisions with confidence.
Governance, Boards & Investor Readiness
As organizations grow, expectations grow with them.
JoHannah helps companies strengthen corporate governance, improve board processes, prepare for investor scrutiny, and build the legal infrastructure needed to support financing, acquisitions, and long-term growth. Having worked closely with executive teams, boards, and investors throughout her career, she understands that strong governance is more than a legal requirement. It is a competitive advantage that builds confidence among stakeholders.
Commercial Transactions & Strategic Growth
JoHannah advises clients on a wide range of commercial transactions that support business growth and long-term relationships. She approaches negotiations with a practical business mindset, helping clients structure agreements that appropriately manage risk while supporting strategic objectives and preserving valuable commercial partnerships.
Whether negotiating customer agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor relationships, or other complex commercial arrangements, her goal is to help clients move business forward.
Organizational Growth & Legal Infrastructure
Growth often exposes gaps that were easy to overlook when a business was smaller.
JoHannah helps organizations build the governance, policies, legal processes, and internal infrastructure that allow companies to scale without creating unnecessary complexity. Her experience building legal and compliance functions gives her a practical understanding of how legal systems can support operational efficiency rather than slow it down.
Compliance, Privacy & Regulatory Strategy
JoHannah works with leadership teams to build compliance programs that are practical, sustainable, and aligned with business objectives. Her experience spans enterprise compliance, privacy, ethics, regulatory strategy, and risk management across domestic and international organizations.
Her Master of Public Health also provides a broader perspective on governance and regulatory systems, making her particularly well-suited to advise healthcare organizations, physician practices, health technology companies, and other businesses operating in highly regulated industries.
Founder, Board & Executive Counsel
Some of the most important conversations leaders have never involve a contract.
JoHannah enjoys serving as a trusted sounding board for founders, CEOs, and executive teams facing difficult decisions, organizational change, leadership transitions, or new opportunities. She believes one of a Chief Legal Officer's greatest responsibilities is helping leadership navigate uncertainty with thoughtful guidance, sound judgment, and a clear understanding of both legal and business priorities.
Education
J.D., Marquette University Law School (2008)
M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013)
B.A., Political Science, Marquette University (2005)
Bar Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court (2016)
District of Columbia (2014)
Wisconsin (2008)
Beyond the Bar
JoHannah believes some of life's best lessons happen well outside the office. She once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and would happily do it again, appreciating the discipline, preparation, and perseverance that the journey demanded.
She also loves bringing people together around the table. An avid home chef, JoHannah approaches cooking with the same curiosity and attention to detail she brings to her legal practice, balancing equal parts science, creativity, and hospitality.
Her commitment to service extends beyond her professional work. She is passionate about healthy aging, serves on nonprofit and private equity boards, and volunteers with the American Bar Association, reflecting her belief that strong organizations and strong communities are built through thoughtful leadership and service.
At home, JoHannah is a proud mom, a regular at spin and barre3 classes, and a dedicated partner to her husband, who somehow manages to be an author, economist, and funeral director all at once. Ask her about that story sometime.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
JoHannah Harrington
Chief Legal Officer
Executive Snapshot
JoHannah Harrington is a Chief Legal Officer who helps founders, executive teams, and investors build organizations that are ready for growth. She advises on governance, commercial transactions, capital raises, compliance, and the legal infrastructure businesses need to scale with confidence.
She has built legal and compliance functions from the ground up, managed governance across more than 160 entities in 40 countries, and guided organizations through complex transactions and financing events. Her Master of Public Health also provides a valuable perspective for healthcare organizations, physician practices, and other highly regulated businesses.
Why Clients Call JoHannah
Companies call JoHannah when growth starts creating complexity.
She understands that successful organizations eventually outgrow informal processes. As companies attract investors, expand into new markets, build leadership teams, or operate across multiple jurisdictions, they need more than legal advice. They need governance, structure, and experienced executive leadership that supports growth without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Clients typically turn to JoHannah when they are:
Preparing for investment, financing, acquisitions, or strategic growth.
Building governance and legal infrastructure that can scale with the business.
Working closely with boards of directors, investors, and executive leadership.
Negotiating sophisticated commercial transactions.
Managing multi-entity or international operations.
Strengthening compliance and organizational risk management.
Operating in healthcare, health technology, physician practices, or other highly regulated industries.
Looking for a Chief Legal Officer who understands both business growth and executive leadership.
JoHannah believes legal leadership creates its greatest value by giving founders, boards, investors, and executive teams the confidence to make informed decisions and build organizations prepared for their next stage of growth.
JoHannah’s Story
JoHannah Harrington has spent her career helping organizations build what growth demands next.
Whether serving as Chief Legal Officer, leading legal and compliance teams, supporting investors, or advising executive leadership, she has consistently been drawn to organizations in transition. High-growth companies, expanding enterprises, and mission-driven organizations all face the same challenge. As they grow, legal, governance, compliance, and operations must grow with them.
Her career reflects that passion for building. JoHannah has established legal and compliance functions, supported more than $200 million in funding activity, managed governance programs spanning more than 160 entities across 40 countries, and partnered with founders, investors, and executive teams navigating significant organizational change. Rather than viewing legal as a department that responds to problems, she believes it should help build the systems that allow businesses to scale successfully.
That perspective is reinforced by her educational background. In addition to earning her Juris Doctor, JoHannah earned a Master of Public Health, broadening her understanding of organizational systems, policy, and risk management. The combination gives her a unique ability to see legal issues within the broader context of how organizations operate, particularly in healthcare and other highly regulated industries.
Today, JoHannah works with founders, executive teams, boards, investors, healthcare organizations, and growing businesses that need experienced legal leadership capable of balancing governance, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth. She believes organizations are strongest when legal is embedded within the business, helping leadership build with confidence rather than simply responding to risk.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Fractional General Counsel
JoHannah joined Unified CLO to provide executive legal leadership to founder-led companies, growing businesses, and organizations navigating periods of growth and change. As part of Unified CLO's Client Success Team model, she partners with founders, CEOs, boards, and executive teams on corporate governance, commercial transactions, compliance, investor readiness, and day-to-day strategic legal counsel.
Her broad executive background allows her to quickly integrate into a client's leadership team, helping organizations build the legal infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.
Atlas
Chief Legal Officer
As Chief Legal Officer of Atlas, JoHannah served as a member of the executive leadership team for a global workforce solutions company operating across dozens of countries. She advised executive leadership and the Board of Directors on corporate governance, commercial transactions, employment, privacy, compliance, regulatory matters, and strategic business initiatives.
She worked closely with investors and executive leadership during a period of rapid organizational growth, helping strengthen the legal, governance, and operational framework necessary to support a complex international business.
Vice President, Compliance, Data Protection & Government Regulations
Prior to becoming Chief Legal Officer, JoHannah led Atlas's global compliance, data protection, and government regulations functions. She developed and strengthened enterprise compliance programs while advising leadership on regulatory strategy, privacy, ethics, and organizational risk across international operations.
Stat Zero
Co-Founder, President & General Counsel
JoHannah co-founded Stat Zero, where she combined legal leadership with executive management responsibilities as President and General Counsel. The experience gave her firsthand insight into the opportunities and challenges founders face while building a business, raising capital, developing strategy, and balancing legal considerations with day-to-day operational decisions.
As both a founder and executive, she understands the realities of building an organization from the ground up and brings that perspective to every client relationship.
JKT Consulting LLC
Managing Partner
As Managing Partner of JKT Consulting, JoHannah advised organizations on governance, compliance, business strategy, regulatory matters, and organizational development. Working across multiple industries strengthened her ability to quickly understand different business models and develop practical legal and operational solutions tailored to each client's objectives.
DLA Piper
Of Counsel
JoHannah served as Of Counsel with DLA Piper, one of the world's largest international law firms, where she advised clients on sophisticated legal and regulatory matters while continuing to build upon her extensive executive legal experience.
Palladium
Corporate Compliance Manager
JoHannah managed corporate compliance initiatives for Palladium, a global consulting firm focused on international development and social impact. She worked with leadership to strengthen compliance programs, governance, and organizational processes supporting complex international operations.
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Legal & Strategy ORISE Fellow
As a Legal & Strategy ORISE Fellow with the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, JoHannah combined her legal, policy, and public health backgrounds to support national initiatives promoting health, wellness, and physical activity. The experience reinforced her appreciation for thoughtful governance, public policy, and mission-driven leadership.
Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
Associate Director of Development
JoHannah began her career helping advance the mission of the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, where she supported fundraising and strategic development initiatives. Working closely with healthcare leaders and researchers provided an early appreciation for the intersection of mission, leadership, and organizational strategy that continues to influence her work today.
How JoHannah Helps Clients
Executive Legal Leadership
JoHannah serves as a strategic legal partner to founders, CEOs, boards of directors, and executive leadership teams navigating growth, organizational change, and increasingly complex business decisions. Whether serving as a Fractional General Counsel or partnering with an existing legal department, she helps organizations build legal functions that support the business while creating the structure needed for long-term success.
She believes the strongest legal departments are deeply connected to the business, providing practical guidance that allows leadership to make informed decisions with confidence.
Governance, Boards & Investor Readiness
As organizations grow, expectations grow with them.
JoHannah helps companies strengthen corporate governance, improve board processes, prepare for investor scrutiny, and build the legal infrastructure needed to support financing, acquisitions, and long-term growth. Having worked closely with executive teams, boards, and investors throughout her career, she understands that strong governance is more than a legal requirement. It is a competitive advantage that builds confidence among stakeholders.
Commercial Transactions & Strategic Growth
JoHannah advises clients on a wide range of commercial transactions that support business growth and long-term relationships. She approaches negotiations with a practical business mindset, helping clients structure agreements that appropriately manage risk while supporting strategic objectives and preserving valuable commercial partnerships.
Whether negotiating customer agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor relationships, or other complex commercial arrangements, her goal is to help clients move business forward.
Organizational Growth & Legal Infrastructure
Growth often exposes gaps that were easy to overlook when a business was smaller.
JoHannah helps organizations build the governance, policies, legal processes, and internal infrastructure that allow companies to scale without creating unnecessary complexity. Her experience building legal and compliance functions gives her a practical understanding of how legal systems can support operational efficiency rather than slow it down.
Compliance, Privacy & Regulatory Strategy
JoHannah works with leadership teams to build compliance programs that are practical, sustainable, and aligned with business objectives. Her experience spans enterprise compliance, privacy, ethics, regulatory strategy, and risk management across domestic and international organizations.
Her Master of Public Health also provides a broader perspective on governance and regulatory systems, making her particularly well-suited to advise healthcare organizations, physician practices, health technology companies, and other businesses operating in highly regulated industries.
Founder, Board & Executive Counsel
Some of the most important conversations leaders have never involve a contract.
JoHannah enjoys serving as a trusted sounding board for founders, CEOs, and executive teams facing difficult decisions, organizational change, leadership transitions, or new opportunities. She believes one of a Chief Legal Officer's greatest responsibilities is helping leadership navigate uncertainty with thoughtful guidance, sound judgment, and a clear understanding of both legal and business priorities.
Education
J.D., Marquette University Law School (2008)
M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013)
B.A., Political Science, Marquette University (2005)
Bar Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court (2016)
District of Columbia (2014)
Wisconsin (2008)
Beyond the Bar
JoHannah believes some of life's best lessons happen well outside the office. She once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and would happily do it again, appreciating the discipline, preparation, and perseverance that the journey demanded.
She also loves bringing people together around the table. An avid home chef, JoHannah approaches cooking with the same curiosity and attention to detail she brings to her legal practice, balancing equal parts science, creativity, and hospitality.
Her commitment to service extends beyond her professional work. She is passionate about healthy aging, serves on nonprofit and private equity boards, and volunteers with the American Bar Association, reflecting her belief that strong organizations and strong communities are built through thoughtful leadership and service.
At home, JoHannah is a proud mom, a regular at spin and barre3 classes, and a dedicated partner to her husband, who somehow manages to be an author, economist, and funeral director all at once. Ask her about that story sometime.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
JoHannah Harrington
Chief Legal Officer
Executive Snapshot
JoHannah Harrington is a Chief Legal Officer who helps founders, executive teams, and investors build organizations that are ready for growth. She advises on governance, commercial transactions, capital raises, compliance, and the legal infrastructure businesses need to scale with confidence.
She has built legal and compliance functions from the ground up, managed governance across more than 160 entities in 40 countries, and guided organizations through complex transactions and financing events. Her Master of Public Health also provides a valuable perspective for healthcare organizations, physician practices, and other highly regulated businesses.
Why Clients Call JoHannah
Companies call JoHannah when growth starts creating complexity.
She understands that successful organizations eventually outgrow informal processes. As companies attract investors, expand into new markets, build leadership teams, or operate across multiple jurisdictions, they need more than legal advice. They need governance, structure, and experienced executive leadership that supports growth without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
Clients typically turn to JoHannah when they are:
Preparing for investment, financing, acquisitions, or strategic growth.
Building governance and legal infrastructure that can scale with the business.
Working closely with boards of directors, investors, and executive leadership.
Negotiating sophisticated commercial transactions.
Managing multi-entity or international operations.
Strengthening compliance and organizational risk management.
Operating in healthcare, health technology, physician practices, or other highly regulated industries.
Looking for a Chief Legal Officer who understands both business growth and executive leadership.
JoHannah believes legal leadership creates its greatest value by giving founders, boards, investors, and executive teams the confidence to make informed decisions and build organizations prepared for their next stage of growth.
JoHannah’s Story
JoHannah Harrington has spent her career helping organizations build what growth demands next.
Whether serving as Chief Legal Officer, leading legal and compliance teams, supporting investors, or advising executive leadership, she has consistently been drawn to organizations in transition. High-growth companies, expanding enterprises, and mission-driven organizations all face the same challenge. As they grow, legal, governance, compliance, and operations must grow with them.
Her career reflects that passion for building. JoHannah has established legal and compliance functions, supported more than $200 million in funding activity, managed governance programs spanning more than 160 entities across 40 countries, and partnered with founders, investors, and executive teams navigating significant organizational change. Rather than viewing legal as a department that responds to problems, she believes it should help build the systems that allow businesses to scale successfully.
That perspective is reinforced by her educational background. In addition to earning her Juris Doctor, JoHannah earned a Master of Public Health, broadening her understanding of organizational systems, policy, and risk management. The combination gives her a unique ability to see legal issues within the broader context of how organizations operate, particularly in healthcare and other highly regulated industries.
Today, JoHannah works with founders, executive teams, boards, investors, healthcare organizations, and growing businesses that need experienced legal leadership capable of balancing governance, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and strategic growth. She believes organizations are strongest when legal is embedded within the business, helping leadership build with confidence rather than simply responding to risk.
Career Experience
Unified CLO
Fractional General Counsel
JoHannah joined Unified CLO to provide executive legal leadership to founder-led companies, growing businesses, and organizations navigating periods of growth and change. As part of Unified CLO's Client Success Team model, she partners with founders, CEOs, boards, and executive teams on corporate governance, commercial transactions, compliance, investor readiness, and day-to-day strategic legal counsel.
Her broad executive background allows her to quickly integrate into a client's leadership team, helping organizations build the legal infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.
Atlas
Chief Legal Officer
As Chief Legal Officer of Atlas, JoHannah served as a member of the executive leadership team for a global workforce solutions company operating across dozens of countries. She advised executive leadership and the Board of Directors on corporate governance, commercial transactions, employment, privacy, compliance, regulatory matters, and strategic business initiatives.
She worked closely with investors and executive leadership during a period of rapid organizational growth, helping strengthen the legal, governance, and operational framework necessary to support a complex international business.
Vice President, Compliance, Data Protection & Government Regulations
Prior to becoming Chief Legal Officer, JoHannah led Atlas's global compliance, data protection, and government regulations functions. She developed and strengthened enterprise compliance programs while advising leadership on regulatory strategy, privacy, ethics, and organizational risk across international operations.
Stat Zero
Co-Founder, President & General Counsel
JoHannah co-founded Stat Zero, where she combined legal leadership with executive management responsibilities as President and General Counsel. The experience gave her firsthand insight into the opportunities and challenges founders face while building a business, raising capital, developing strategy, and balancing legal considerations with day-to-day operational decisions.
As both a founder and executive, she understands the realities of building an organization from the ground up and brings that perspective to every client relationship.
JKT Consulting LLC
Managing Partner
As Managing Partner of JKT Consulting, JoHannah advised organizations on governance, compliance, business strategy, regulatory matters, and organizational development. Working across multiple industries strengthened her ability to quickly understand different business models and develop practical legal and operational solutions tailored to each client's objectives.
DLA Piper
Of Counsel
JoHannah served as Of Counsel with DLA Piper, one of the world's largest international law firms, where she advised clients on sophisticated legal and regulatory matters while continuing to build upon her extensive executive legal experience.
Palladium
Corporate Compliance Manager
JoHannah managed corporate compliance initiatives for Palladium, a global consulting firm focused on international development and social impact. She worked with leadership to strengthen compliance programs, governance, and organizational processes supporting complex international operations.
President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Legal & Strategy ORISE Fellow
As a Legal & Strategy ORISE Fellow with the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, JoHannah combined her legal, policy, and public health backgrounds to support national initiatives promoting health, wellness, and physical activity. The experience reinforced her appreciation for thoughtful governance, public policy, and mission-driven leadership.
Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
Associate Director of Development
JoHannah began her career helping advance the mission of the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center, where she supported fundraising and strategic development initiatives. Working closely with healthcare leaders and researchers provided an early appreciation for the intersection of mission, leadership, and organizational strategy that continues to influence her work today.
How JoHannah Helps Clients
Executive Legal Leadership
JoHannah serves as a strategic legal partner to founders, CEOs, boards of directors, and executive leadership teams navigating growth, organizational change, and increasingly complex business decisions. Whether serving as a Fractional General Counsel or partnering with an existing legal department, she helps organizations build legal functions that support the business while creating the structure needed for long-term success.
She believes the strongest legal departments are deeply connected to the business, providing practical guidance that allows leadership to make informed decisions with confidence.
Governance, Boards & Investor Readiness
As organizations grow, expectations grow with them.
JoHannah helps companies strengthen corporate governance, improve board processes, prepare for investor scrutiny, and build the legal infrastructure needed to support financing, acquisitions, and long-term growth. Having worked closely with executive teams, boards, and investors throughout her career, she understands that strong governance is more than a legal requirement. It is a competitive advantage that builds confidence among stakeholders.
Commercial Transactions & Strategic Growth
JoHannah advises clients on a wide range of commercial transactions that support business growth and long-term relationships. She approaches negotiations with a practical business mindset, helping clients structure agreements that appropriately manage risk while supporting strategic objectives and preserving valuable commercial partnerships.
Whether negotiating customer agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor relationships, or other complex commercial arrangements, her goal is to help clients move business forward.
Organizational Growth & Legal Infrastructure
Growth often exposes gaps that were easy to overlook when a business was smaller.
JoHannah helps organizations build the governance, policies, legal processes, and internal infrastructure that allow companies to scale without creating unnecessary complexity. Her experience building legal and compliance functions gives her a practical understanding of how legal systems can support operational efficiency rather than slow it down.
Compliance, Privacy & Regulatory Strategy
JoHannah works with leadership teams to build compliance programs that are practical, sustainable, and aligned with business objectives. Her experience spans enterprise compliance, privacy, ethics, regulatory strategy, and risk management across domestic and international organizations.
Her Master of Public Health also provides a broader perspective on governance and regulatory systems, making her particularly well-suited to advise healthcare organizations, physician practices, health technology companies, and other businesses operating in highly regulated industries.
Founder, Board & Executive Counsel
Some of the most important conversations leaders have never involve a contract.
JoHannah enjoys serving as a trusted sounding board for founders, CEOs, and executive teams facing difficult decisions, organizational change, leadership transitions, or new opportunities. She believes one of a Chief Legal Officer's greatest responsibilities is helping leadership navigate uncertainty with thoughtful guidance, sound judgment, and a clear understanding of both legal and business priorities.
Education
J.D., Marquette University Law School (2008)
M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2013)
B.A., Political Science, Marquette University (2005)
Bar Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court (2016)
District of Columbia (2014)
Wisconsin (2008)
Beyond the Bar
JoHannah believes some of life's best lessons happen well outside the office. She once climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and would happily do it again, appreciating the discipline, preparation, and perseverance that the journey demanded.
She also loves bringing people together around the table. An avid home chef, JoHannah approaches cooking with the same curiosity and attention to detail she brings to her legal practice, balancing equal parts science, creativity, and hospitality.
Her commitment to service extends beyond her professional work. She is passionate about healthy aging, serves on nonprofit and private equity boards, and volunteers with the American Bar Association, reflecting her belief that strong organizations and strong communities are built through thoughtful leadership and service.
At home, JoHannah is a proud mom, a regular at spin and barre3 classes, and a dedicated partner to her husband, who somehow manages to be an author, economist, and funeral director all at once. Ask her about that story sometime.
Ready to Talk?
Whether your company needs an experienced General Counsel, strategic legal guidance, or executive-level legal leadership, Unified CLO is ready to help.
Schedule a Conversation
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Chief Legal Office
About Unified
What We Do
© 2026 Unified Law Group, PB LLC
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