Our Firm

Bertrand Alexis is Senior Director, Legal of Ooredoo Group, a world-leading global telecommunications company with over $9 billion in revenue and a presence in more than 10 countries in the Middle East. There, he has also served as Acting Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and General Counsel. Mr. Alexis previously co-founded Vistalaw International, a global team of former in-house attorneys with broad experience in providing legal support and advice to international companies. He is a former Associate General Counsel at Cable & Wireless and served as counsel to Nortel Europe and international counsel to Alcatel S.A.

Mr. Alexis serves on the board of Wataniya Mobile, the Palestinian subsidiary of Ooredoo Group. He is also a board member of NOAH NY. Mr. Alexis received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Nicole Auerbach is a founding partner of Valorem Law Group, the litigation boutique firm nationally recognized as a thought leader on the use of alternative fee arrangements. She was previously a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, where she specialized in complex commercial litigation. Ms. Auerbach was named one of the "Most Influential Women Attorneys in Chicago" in 2017 by Crain's Chicago Business magazine, a “Top 50 Women Lawyers in Illinois” by SuperLawyers magazine and one of the “Forty Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch” by the Law Bulletin Company. She is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society, and is a certified arbiter through the American Arbitration Association.

Ms. Auerbach founded and is the National Chair of the Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession. Ms. Auerbach received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Juris Doctor, with honors, from DePaul University College of Law.

Ray Bayley is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Co-Founder of Novus Law. Mr. Bayley is responsible for our firm’s strategy, ethics, global operations, and quality management systems. He is the former Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ North American Business Process Outsourcing organization – considered during his tenure as the world’s leading outsourcing organization – and was a member of the firm’s 15-member management committee, responsible for overseeing the $9 billion, 70,000 person U.S. operations of the firm. Mr. Bayley is also the former Chief Executive Officer of a business process outsourcing company with large-scale operations in India.

Mr. Bayley is a member of the Advisory Board of the Corporate Counsel Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. Mr. Bayley received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration degree, with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Bill Elwin is the former Director of Worldwide Professional Development and Training for Shearman & Sterling LLP and Chief Learning Officer for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (now Dentons), both Am Law 100 firms. Mr. Elwin is also a former Associate Dean of the Northwestern School of Law, and Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Northwestern School of Law’s Corporate Counsel Center. He is a former prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and an elected member of the American Law Institute. Mr. Elwin is the former President of the Legal Club of Chicago and The Chicago Bar Foundation. He has received numerous awards during his career including from the Chicago Bar Association and the ABA Committee on Law School Development.

Mr. Elwin received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Denver, a Certificate in Economics from the University of Vienna, and a Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Carla Goldstein is the former Associate General Counsel and Director of Strategic Initiatives for BMO Financial Group, where she drove innovative delivery models for legal services, including the use of technology, and pricing models not based on the billable hour. Her work garnered the 2015 First Chair Award and awards for the bank, including the 2016 Canadian Corporate Counsel Association Innovation Award and the 2015 Association of Corporate Counsel Value Champion Award. Prior to BMO, Ms. Goldstein was Chief Strategic Innovations Officer of SeyfarthLean Consulting and its parent Seyfarth Shaw. Ms. Goldstein is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and a founder of Seyfarth Shaw’s SeyfarthLean Program team.

Ms. Goldstein received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Lois Haubold is our Executive Vice President and a Co-Founder of Novus Law. Ms. Haubold is responsible for our firm’s strategy, ethics, global service delivery operations, and client relationship management. She is a former member of the North American Business Process Outsourcing leadership team at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Vice President of Client Relationship Management and Alliances at a business process outsourcing company, where she was responsible for integrating clients’ needs with the firm’s global service delivery system in India.

Ms. Haubold serves on the boards of directors of LIFT Foundation and Community Alternatives Unlimited. She is also a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. Ms. Haubold received Master and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Frank Serrino is the Managing Member of Principio Capital, an angel investment firm. Previously, Mr. Serrino was the CEO of Progeny Trading Company and its predecessor firm which specialized in Treasury options trading. Mr. Serrino is also developing an investment company based on an algorithmic investment strategy he devised and programmed. He has previously worked at Chicago Research and Trading Company, LaSalle Partners, AM International, and Intel.

Mr. Serrino’s Board service includes the Boards of CBOT Holdings Inc., Trinity Capital Investment, Best Money Moves and other companies. He recently joined the Philanthropy Committee of North Shore Exchange. Mr. Serrino earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.