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Lisa Lang, General Counsel

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Lisa Lang, General Counsel

Lisa Lang currently serves as the General Counsel for Ohio Northern University. Lisa first began her career as a lawyer working as an associate attorney specializing in insurance defense for a law firm in Louisville, Kentucky. She left that firm in 2008 to work for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She first worked in the Office of the Attorney General as an Assistant Attorney General and then for the Kentucky Department of Education in a variety of in-house counsel roles until taking her former in-house position at Kentucky State in 2017. Connect with Lisa on Linkedin! #LawyerLisaLang

About the Author

Lisa Lang, General Counsel

Lisa Lang currently serves as the General Counsel for Ohio Northern University. Lisa first began her career as a lawyer working as an associate attorney specializing in insurance defense for a law firm in Louisville, Kentucky. She left that firm in 2008 to work for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She first worked in the Office of the Attorney General as an Assistant Attorney General and then for the Kentucky Department of Education in a variety of in-house counsel roles until taking her former in-house position at Kentucky State in 2017. Connect with Lisa on Linkedin! #LawyerLisaLang

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Lisa Lang, General Counsel

Lisa Lang currently serves as the General Counsel for Ohio Northern University. Lisa first began her career as a lawyer working as an associate attorney specializing in insurance defense for a law firm in Louisville, Kentucky. She left that firm in 2008 to work for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She first worked in the Office of the Attorney General as an Assistant Attorney General and then for the Kentucky Department of Education in a variety of in-house counsel roles until taking her former in-house position at Kentucky State in 2017. Connect with Lisa on Linkedin! #LawyerLisaLang

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