FORMER GC OF VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA
JOINS CHICAGO LAW FIRM
Chicago, December 3, 2008 – Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP, TAGLaw's Chicago-based law firm, welcomes Joseph Folz to its Automotive practice group.
Folz, formerly Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations, General Counsel and Secretary of Volkswagen Group of America, joins the firm Of Counsel in the Litigation department.
Folz joins Barack Ferrazzano after long and successful career as an attorney in the automotive industry, beginning his career at General Motors in 1978. He then spent 29 years with the Volkswagen Group, including serving as General Counsel since 1992, where his responsibilities included franchise and dealer relations, brand and business unit acquisitions and dispositions, antitrust compliance, government relations, and public affairs. Folz’s career experience also includes significant cross-disciplinary non-legal business initiatives, such as working with Volkswagen’s marketing team to launch the New Beetle and Volkswagen’s famous “Drivers wanted” advertising campaign.
At Barack Ferrazzano, Folz will focus on dealer relations, antitrust compliance, warranty programs, insurance regulation, and dispute resolution in the firm’s highly-regarded Automotive practice, which serves some of the world’s best-known automotive brands, including Audi, Bentley, Chrysler, Kia, Lamborghini, Mercedes, and Volkswagen.
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Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP provides a wide range of business-oriented legal services to some of the most respected companies in America and around the world. Founded in 1984 by two highly regarded law professors at Northwestern University and two former members of a prominent Chicago law firm, Barack Ferrazzano has grown to approximately 100 lawyers from some of the most renowned firms and law schools in the U.S. For more information, please visit www.bfkn.com.
