Susie L. Hoeller, Esq.

Of Counsel
susiehoeller@cox.net

EXPERIENCE

Ms. Hoeller serves as Of Counsel to the Enterprise Counsel Group where she advises ECG clients on international and federal regulatory matters. She has an international business practice based in Bentonville, Arkansas where she represents foreign and domestic companies in commercial, antitrust, product and food labeling, compliance and safety matters which involve the FTC, CPSC, FDA, USDA, EPA, and other federal regulatory agencies. Hoeller is an advisor to the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Americas Beachhead Program. She is an outside director of a mutual insurance company in Glenview, Illinois.

She has 33 years experience practicing law in Portland Maine, Chicago Illinois, Dallas Texas, and Bentonville, Arkansas. Prior positions Ms. Hoeller has held include: Associate General Counsel at Wal-Mart Stores, Senior Counsel at Texas Instruments, and a partnership at the prominent Texas law firm of Jackson Walker LLP.

EDUCATION

Ms. Hoeller received her primary and secondary education in Montreal, Canada. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Colby College where she majored in history and government. At Colby, Susie was a Dean’s List student, a recipient of a Charles A. Dana scholarship, and a student government leader. She was the founder of the women’s ice hockey program and participated in the first inter-collegiate women’s ice hockey game ever played in the United States. She was profiled by Canadian Broadcasting Company in their 2006 People’s History of Hockey documentary series. Ms. Hoeller obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University.

MEMBERSHIP, PUBLICATIONS, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND PUBLIC SERVICE

Ms. Hoeller is admitted to practice in Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, and Maine. She is a CLE speaker and writer for the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust. In addition to her international business travel, she has gathered evidence in foreign countries for her pro bono work on behalf of refugees, asylum applicants, immigrants, and children with war injuries seeking medical treatment in the U.S. Ms. Hoeller has been profiled in The National Law Journal and The Dallas Morning News and recognized by the Dallas Bar Association for this work. She currently serves on the NW Arkansas boards of Catholic Charities and Juvenile Diabetes Research International, and as the President of the American Center for International Policy Studies. Ms. Hoeller is a member of the Arkansas World Trade Center. She is currently an adjunct instructor at NW Arkansas Community College in the paralegal studies and business departments.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

The Ethical Food Manifesto, Bangor: Booklocker, 2009.

IMPASSE, Border Walls or Welcome the Stranger, Bangor: Booklocker, 2008.

RECALL, Food and Toy Safety: An American Crisis, Charleston: BookSurge, 2007.

ARTICLES:

Heparin Contamination-Another Case Study for Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility Wire, March 2008.

The Intersection of Antitrust with Product Safety-The Need for Greater Collaboration by Antitrust and Regulatory Lawyers when Counseling Corporate Clients, The Antitrust Source, Vol. 7, Issue 3. February 2008.

Antitrust Compliance Training, 54^th Annual ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting, March 29-31, 2006.

Customer Privacy Protection under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Texas Lawyer, July 2004.

Preventive Law through Client Training, Texas Bar Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2, February 1993.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:

U.S. Food and Beverage Industry Legal and Regulatory Update, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Seminar, National Restaurant Show, Chicago, IL, May 15, 2009.

Changing America One Shopping Cart at a Time, The University of Arkansas Food Science Department, April 27, 2009.

Canadian Antitrust Law for the In-House Practionier, American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Antitrust Law, Corporate Counseling Committee Telephonic Program, November 7, 2008.

Legal Aspects of Building Your Market Share and Protecting Your Brand Name in the U.S., New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Seminar, National Restaurant Association Show, Chicago, IL, May 16, 2008.

Keep Your Corporate Compliance Policy Up to Date , ABA Section of Antitrust Law Corporate Counseling Committee and the ABA Center for CLE Teleseminar and Live Audio Webcast, November 7, 2007.

Trial Preparation: Not Just for Outside Counsel, 54^th Annual ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting, Washington D. C., March 30, 2006.

Legal Aspects of Global Outsourcing, Barbados Investment & Development Conference, Houston, TX, April 22, 2004.

The Quality of Refugee Protection in the U.S., 2nd Annual National Conference of the Association Quebecoise des Avocats en Droit de L’Immigration, Montreal, Quebec, November 7 and 8, 2003.

The Rights and Responsibilities of Employers in Hiring under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Quarterly immigration conferences, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Counsel, Dallas, TX, 2001 - 2004.

Outbound Licensing, Supply, Distribution, and Sales Representation Contracts, International Law Institute, Dallas Bar Association, January 25, 2002.

Drafting E-Commerce Agreements, Internet Law: Intellectual Property and Practice in the 21st Century seminar, Oklahoma Bar Association, Tulsa, OK, June 10, 2000.