Experience

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Director

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  I joined the CBLDF to rebuild the organization after a management crisis. My work involves advising on legal matters pertaining to the comic arts, providing legal representation in litigation, expanding the scope of the organization's charitable services, redesigning the organization's convention outreach, relaunching its fundraising initiatives, and reforming the core aspects of the CBLDF's institutional infrastructure, such as financial management, development initiatives, public programming, stakeholder communications, and governance. Show less



Fordham University School of Law

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Fashion Ethics, Sustainability and Development Professor / Associate Director

  • Sep 2010 - Present

  I created and continue to teach the Fashion Ethics, Sustainability, and Development course for the Fashion Law Institute, the world's first academic center dedicated to the legal and business issues of the fashion industry. Subjects covered in this course include drafting ethics policies, conducting ethics training, developing practical ethics strategies, addressing complex ethics matters, anticipating emerging ethical concerns, and understanding the fundamentals of such key issues as Sarbanes Oxley, Dodd Frank, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, environmental regulation, sustainable sourcing, cause marketing, trade association guidelines, third-party certification, crisis management, and the role of effective information design in ethics training & communications strategy. I also cover ethics issues in co-teaching the master's degree capstone course. Currently on leave as Associate Director while I assist the CBLDF, in my managerial role I've helped provide strategic advice and management services to an innovative nonprofit dedicated to the intersection of fashion, business and law. My work for the Fashion Law Institute has included advising start-ups and emerging designers, developing public programming and participating in dozens of panels, building a global network, co-authoring legal and strategic guides, co-producing fashion shows as an official part of New York's Mercedes Benz Fashion Week (including the revolutionary first plus-size fashion show), managing Fashion Law Bootcamp programs in New York and Silicon Valley, advising government officials on ethics reform relevant to the fashion industry, and developing and conducting ethics training for fashion brand employees. Show less



KERING AMERICAS, INC

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Ethics Committee

  • Feb 2014 - Present

  Advising multinational fashion brand on cutting-edge issues in corporate ethics. Advising multinational fashion brand on cutting-edge issues in corporate ethics.



Moda Legal LLP

• New York

• Attorney & Ethics Advisor

  • Sep 1996 - Present

  Advising on ethics, intellectual property, labor & employment, bankruptcy, estate planning, and other legal issues for businesses and nonprofits; offering association management services; training in ethics, inclusion, and crisis management. Member of the New York Bar. Advising on ethics, intellectual property, labor & employment, bankruptcy, estate planning, and other legal issues for businesses and nonprofits; offering association management services; training in ethics, inclusion, and crisis management. Member of the New York Bar.



Various online and print publications

• Writing and Editing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Freelance Writer

  • Mar 2008 - Present

  Analyzing legal issues in fashion, media, ethics and social entrepreneurship for various media outlets, including The Sourcing Journal, The Beat, TCJ.com, Newsarama, JustMeans, Change.org and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Analyzing legal issues in fashion, media, ethics and social entrepreneurship for various media outlets, including The Sourcing Journal, The Beat, TCJ.com, Newsarama, JustMeans, Change.org and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.



Pace University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Wilson Professor of Social Entrepreneurship Executive Director, Wilson Center

  • Aug 2006 - Aug 2010

  Established new center integrating sustainable business practices with social benefit. Advised for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurial ventures. Taught business school classes in corporate organization and financing. Taught legal strategy course for management department. Taught web design course for computer science department. Consulted on an Emmy-nominated documentary. Developed programs on legal training and reform. Established new center integrating sustainable business practices with social benefit. Advised for-profit and nonprofit entrepreneurial ventures. Taught business school classes in corporate organization and financing. Taught legal strategy course for management department. Taught web design course for computer science department. Consulted on an Emmy-nominated documentary. Developed programs on legal training and reform.



SMU School of Law

• Assistant Professor

  • Aug 1999 - Aug 2006

  Taught courses in business enterprise, corporate ethics, income tax, and nonprofit organizations law. Advised start-up ventures. Won grant for innovative online instruction. Served on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the SMU Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Policy. Taught courses in business enterprise, corporate ethics, income tax, and nonprofit organizations law. Advised start-up ventures. Won grant for innovative online instruction. Served on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the SMU Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Policy.



St. Louis University School of Law

• Assistant Professor

  • Jan 1998 - Aug 2006

  Taught courses in individual income tax, corporate tax and nonprofit organizations law. Advised local nonprofits. Taught courses in individual income tax, corporate tax and nonprofit organizations law. Advised local nonprofits.



Yale Law School

• New Haven, CT

• Visiting Professor

  • Jan 2004 - May 2004

  Taught international nonprofit law. Taught international nonprofit law.



Gardner, Carton & Douglas

• Associate

  • Sep 1996 - Dec 1997

  Advised clients on tax issues, health care law, corporate mergers, intellectual property and securities transactions. Advised clients on tax issues, health care law, corporate mergers, intellectual property and securities transactions.



U.S. Courts of Appeals

• Administration of Justice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Law Clerk for the Hon. D.W. Nelson, U.S. Circuit Judge

  • Aug 1995 - Aug 1996