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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Created and teach the first law school course nationwide on the Law & Regulation of Social Media. Cover a range of topics, including intellectual property, privacy, influencer marketing, antitrust, employment law and First Amendment.

New York, Ny, Us

Served as a key executive team member of this premier, private equity-backed digital media and e-commerce company that owns 11 category-leading sites, with 95 million unique visitors per month, including Quartz, Gizmodo, Deadspin, Jezebel, Kotaku, The Root and The Onion.Collaboratively lead a global staff of 500 employees across product, editorial, sales, technology and other teams in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and twelve international locations. Integrally involved in all strategic business decisions. Lead legal team, staff and oversee outside counsel. Responsible for legal services provided to all business units, including editorial, sales and marketing, finance, IT/engineering, insurance, tax, real estate, licensing, human resources and corporate development. Handle all board and corporate governance. Manage global IP portfolio and strategy. Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions. Train editorial staff.Lead, negotiate and close and all legal aspects of multi-$M, high caliber acquisitions (including e.g. Quartz in 2022), dispositions (e.g. Lifehacker in 2023), strategic partnerships and foreign licenses. Design and oversee strategic and promotional partnerships; negotiate software, technology, entertainment, media, licensing and all related commercial agreements; provides sales support; manage complex litigation; counsel HR team; and lead business process improvements.Implement and enhance company's oversight and management of intellectual property, data privacy, cybersecurity, SaaS (ad tech vendor) contracts, labor relations, employment, content guidelines, and other matters. Develop and manage legal budget. Prepare board presentations and messaging; handle corporate compliance matters.

New York, Us

Led strategy and day-to-day operations, with additional responsibility for legal, communications, finance and human resources, of this 120-person, $37M city agency supporting NYC's media and entertainment industries.Made significant, lasting improvements to NYC, including seven landmark programs to support, increase and diversify access to NYC's media, technology and entertainment industries (Freelancers' Hub, One Book, One NY, Broadway in the Boros, a $1M community and ethnic media grant, RLab (publicly funded VR/AR facility), among others).Led NYC Media, the country's largest municipal broadcasting network of five cable channels and a radio station. Created/acquired new programming for flagship TV/radio channels, NYC Life (Channel 25) and WNYE (91.5) and oversaw and negotiated strategic partnerships with The New York Times, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, Google and trade associations.Negotiated the Grammy's return in 2018 and represented the Mayor at industry events.

New York, Us

Recruited to modernize the nation's largest city-level consumer protection agency to include online consumer fraud.On behalf of the Mayor and Consumer Affairs Commissioner, launched the first investigation into illegal sales of second-hand firearms on the leading online marketplace for firearms, Armslist.com. Spearheaded other significant investigations related to hacking and security flaws in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as webcams and baby monitors, and devised strategy to prosecute sale of K2 (synthetic marijuana) on false advertising grounds.Providing strategic counsel to the Commissioner on a broad range of legal issues, including consumer protection, litigation, data privacy, licensing, false advertising, and intellectual property.

New York, New York, Us

Invited to join the faculty and teach media, intellectual property and entertainment law.Presented work on intermediary liability (Section 230) and digital platforms. Served as strategic legal advisor to new media platforms.

Berlin, Berlin, De

Served as General Counsel and the sole in-house attorney of this U.S. subsidiary of a German public company and leading e-commerce beauty subscription service.Counseled senior management on range of legal and business issues, including U.S. securities law filings, privacy, supply chain issues, behavioral advertising, class action liability, intellectual property, employment law and regulatory compliance.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Devised and executed novel legal strategy to transform Forbes' business model from traditional publisher to online contributor platform with 1,000+ contributors.Counseled CEO and senior leadership team on wide variety of legal issues, including licensing, joint ventures, syndication, option rights agreements, libel, intellectual property, privacy, FOIA, pre-litigation and litigation counseling/management, regulatory compliance, employment and rights of publicity.Held responsibility for pre-publication review of editorial content produced by newsroom of 150 staff writers, including print, video and digital content published by Forbes and its affiliates.Successfully negotiated settlement of $10M libel suit.

Represented and advised cable and network broadcasters, online media sites, national magazines, nonprofits, book publishers, newspapers and authors on all aspects of media law including libel, privacy, newsgathering torts, First Amendment issues, copyright and trademark, advertising and contracts. Clients included Random House, Rolling Stone, Us Weekly, Comedy Central, the BBC, Warner Bros., VH1, A&E and Simon & Schuster, among others. Seconded to NBC as production counsel.

New York, Ny, Us

Represented clients in corporate M&A transactions, strategic investments, SEC filings, shareholder class actions and proxy contests. Counseled boards of directors on corporate governance matters.

Washington Dc, District Of Columbia, Us

Jd, Law

Ba, Government

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