Precise Solutions, Built Around What Matters Most

I approach client issues holistically, first listening and learning about your objectives and motivations, your business, and your current situation, and then solving for the outcome that actually serves you and your business.

I am relentless about achieving clients the best outcome, and practical about how I get there. I’m a determined writer, negotiator, and strategist — I draft agreements that aim to be clear, usable, and concise, while maintaining legal precision. Like a helpful instruction manual or recipe, while serving as a legal and operational backstop. In negotiations, I collaborate with you to create a strategic roadmap, and stick to the goals, rather than just trying to score minor points based on useless ego fights.

And as a proud generalist, I draw on and synthesize business and legal thinking across disciplines, remaining curious and adaptable.

BIO / HISTORY

I began my legal career at Latham & Watkins, working across transactional and litigation matters before focusing on dispute resolution and risk advising for financial institutions, private equity, individuals, and other businesses. After time at a midtown boutique litigation firm, starting my own practice, and then a stint as a partner in a cooperative firm — concentrating on general counsel, entertainment, and start-up work — I returned to my own practice. I came to law by a circuitous and fulfilling path: I studied music composition at Bard College, and spent many years out West with a working life that spanned finance, counseling, cooking, owning a landscaping business, and construction. That range shapes how I work — I read people and businesses well and approach problems holistically. I am also proud to dedicate time to pro bono causes, and non-profit board work for amazing organizations that present new music - Experiments in Opera, Inc. (EiO) for which I am Board President, and Music at the Anthology, Inc. (MATA) for which I am a former Board President. And in December 2025 MATA awarded me their inaugural Pulse Award for Creative Stewardship.

Education
New York Law School, JD
summa cum laude

Bard College, BA
Music Composition

Bar Admissions
New York State
S.D.N.Y
E.D.N.Y

Publications
Fostering Creativity in Virtual Worlds: Easing the Restrictiveness of Copyright for User-Created Content, 55 J. of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 469 (2008); 52 New York Law School Law Review 67 (2007), 2008 National First Prize in the ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Copyright Competition