Experience

Solo Practitioner

• Legal Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Attorney

  • 2014 - Present



The Authors Guild

• New York City

• Director of Legal Services

  • 2000 - 2014

  Directed the legal department of the nation's oldest and largest society of professional authors. Supervised staff attorney and legal interns. Reviewed hundreds of literary agency, book and periodical publishing contracts annually. Advised on various publishing law issues including copyright registration, renewal, duration, infringement, termination, and fair use; electronic publishing rights; out-of-print clauses; subsidiary rights licensing; permissions agreements; royalty accounting disputes; and DMCA takedown notices.



International Claims and Litigation Management Group

• Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Attorney

  • 1997 - 1999

  Managed mass tort litigation, especially aviation litigation, on behalf of international corporate clients. Duties included: Negotiating settlements in the United States, England and Argentina; written evaluation of weaknesses in opposition's case, drafting negotiation strategies; retaining and supervising local defense counsel, outlining content of pleadings and discovery; researching and writing memoranda on various points of aviation law; writing newsletters on emerging legal trends and other topics of interest to corporate counsel.