Bryan Rotella
Founder & Managing Partner / General Counsel
The General Counsel Team
Revolutionizing The Legal Industry
Bryan prides himself on being The Lawyer Who Hates Lawyers. Or at least what most business consumers of legal services can’t stand about typical lawyers.
With this in mind Bryan founded GenCo Legal® www.gencolegal.com to be the industry disrupting law firm that understands for businesses that operate on budgets not with blank checks – It’s Time to Lawyer Differently®.
EDUCATION
Pepperdine University School of Law, J.D.
Ohio State University, B.A.
BAR ADMISSIONS
California: 2002
Florida: 2003
Massachusetts: 2019
Texas: 2017
Sam Seaman
Lead Associate General Counsel
Sam was born to lead. From his legal practice working shoulder to shoulder with business leadership teams to his prior experience coaching competitive soccer, Sam seeks out opportunities to learn how an organization and the individual can perform at their very best. In his role as GenCo’s lead associate attorney, Sam brings his Kansas bred common sense focused approach every day to the handling the most important legal needs of GenCo’s clients.
EDUCATION
University of Florida Levin College of Law, J.D. cum laude
University of Saint Mary, M.B.A.
University of Kansas, B.A.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Florida: 2017
Christian Miles
Associate General Counsel
Christian’s passion is problem solving. The opportunity to do this without being a servant to the outdated billable hour led Christian to answer GenCo’s call – It’s Time to Lawyer Differently®.
Christian’s focus every day is to be the most trusted advisor possible to GenCo’s clients by learning every facet of their business.
EDUCATION
Stetson University College of Law, J.D.
Rutgers University- New Brunswick, B.S.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Florida: 2017
South Carolina: 2019
Nicolette Figueroa
Associate General Counsel
Nicolette thrives on all things wellness. She has found a perfect fit in her role as an associate attorney in GenCo’s innovative preventative model of attacking the long-term risks that often derail the future wellbeing of small to medium sized businesses. Nicolette also draws on her prior work experience in data privacy best practices, a cutting-edge issue identified as an area for growth frequently with GenCo’s clients during our Risk Stress Test®.
EDUCATION
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.
Mount Mary University, B.A.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Florida: 2018
Beth Brashears
Law Clerk
Beth has always been a fighter in her education, work and life. Her fiery spirit comes from her small-town Kentucky roots and the hard-working example of being raised a coal miner’s daughter.
In Beth’s role as a law clerk with GenCo Legal®, she fights for our clients, including by preparing best-in-class pre-suit communications that have stopped formal claims from being initiated.
EDUCATION
Stetson University College of Law, Candidate for Juris Doctor ‘20
University of Kentucky, B.A.
University of Kentucky, B.A.
Hayley Abolafia-Cartwright
Executive Assistant to Managing Partner
Hayley enjoys the day to day challenge of being an innovative task master. While functioning in a support role to our team, Hayley is no stranger to the practice of law. She learned about the legal industry from her mother who owned her own law firm in Hayley’s native, Vermont. Oftentimes, dinner table conversations revolved around the stress and relentless pressure of the billable hour, where Hayley realized how impersonal this tradition was and vowed to never live the same nightmare by pursuing the legal industry as a career.