Director, Legal Affairs, Jun Group [www]
2019 –
Sole in-house attorney for AdTech company and its software subsidiary, HyprMX, and consulting arm, APG. Responsible for reviewing and negotiating agreements for SaaS and IT infrastructure vendors and NDAs; drafting employment agreements for new team members; evaluating the legal and privacy implications of new advertising technologies; negotiating with mobile app developers to monetize mobile advertising inventory; reviewing IAB insertion orders; reviewing and negotiating agreements with data brokers; ensuring ad campaigns follow industry best practices and comply with agreements with media agencies, sources of ad inventory, and privacy policies; supporting HR; and working with the internal legal team at Advantage Solutions to support additional legal matters.
Counsel, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP [www]
2010 – 2018
Counseled and represented clients at all stages of litigation in federal and state court, including pre-litigation analysis, settlement, trial, and appellate practice. Specific focuses on intellectual property and technology matters, data privacy and security, contracts, corporate governance, employment law, public agencies law, and complex commercial litigation.
Representative engagements included:
- Won $120+ million verdict on behalf of shareholders over misuse of corporate trademarks in state bench trial;
- Tried $300+ million technology and construction dispute on behalf of MTA against Lockheed Martin (verdict pending);
- Won summary judgment for co-owner in small business in ownership dispute;
- Successfully appealed federal jury verdict, leading to dismissal of claims;
- Drafted, reviewed, and revised website terms and privacy policies; and
Advised clients and colleagues regarding IP and social media legal issues, including trademark prosecution and litigation.
Counsel, 2016-2018
Collected and evaluated scholarly writing on intellectual property as barrier to entry for World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)-commissioned research project. Contributed to the final report, which was published by WIPO.
Advised clients on potential claims and defenses in substantive areas including copyright, trademark, contracts, and real estate. Assisted out-of-state counsel with New York State procedural requirements. Evaluated strategic needs of the firm for acquisition and retention of clients, and expansion of business.
Litigation Associate, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP [www]
2005 – 2009
Summer Associate, 2004
Developed and implemented litigation strategies in collaboration with senior attorneys. Drafted pleadings, discovery requests and responses, motions, memoranda and correspondence. Conducted and defended depositions. Individually represented pro bono clients in personal legal matters, such as Social Security appeals, asylum, divorce and child custody. Substantive areas included trademark disputes, internal investigations, complex financial and accounting litigation, and securities litigation.
Representative matters included:
- Defending international accounting firm in complex, large-scale fraud litigation arising from massive corporate bankruptcy
- Investigating and seeking to shut down a wide-ranging products counterfeiting and distribution network on behalf of consumer products manufacturer
- Conducting an internal investigation arising from allegations of stock options backdating at a medical services company
- Evaluating potential claims and litigation risk arising from misrepresentations discovered after the conclusion of a merger agreement on behalf of major healthcare products manufacturer
- Defending a major investment bank against a claw-back claim arising from large, complex bankruptcy, resulting in a favorable settlement.
- Engaging in research and strategy on behalf of major consumer electronics manufacturer in contract-based arbitration.
- Advising commercial real estate developer on options arising out of threatened default by major tenant.
- Staff, Volume XX, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal
University of Pennsylvania Law School [www]
- James Wilson Fellowship in Law and Technology
Activities:
- Articles Editor, Volume 7, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
- Associate Editor, Volume 6, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
- Criminal Law Research Group (Drafted and edited a new penal code, rules of criminal procedure, sentencing guidelines and prosecution guidelines for the Republic of the Maldives, a constitutionally Islamic nation, in addition to other projects as part of a faculty-supervised working group)
Public Service:
- Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, Economic and Cyber Crime Unit (Spring 2003)
- ALI/ABA, Publications Office (Fall 2004)
- National Constitution Center, Educational Office (Spring 2005)
- Fences Rather than Walls: Targeting Policy as a Solution to Global Internet Jurisdiction Disputes (Assessed policy approaches to jurisdictional issues posed by the Internet)
Publications:
- Athletes In Video Games: Balancing Publicity Rights And The First Amendment, Forbes.com, Sept. 22, 2016 (co-author)
- Fair Use in the Age of Social Media, Forbes.com, May 26, 2016 (co-author)
- Copyright Enforcement in the Cloud, 21 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 403 (2011)
- An Analysis of the Economic/Legal Literature on the Effects of IP Rights as a Barrier to Entry, Fordham Law School Center on Law and Information Policy, WIPO (2011) (researcher)
- Codifying Shari’a: International Norms, Legality and the Freedom to Invent New Forms, 2 J. Comp. L. (UK) 1 (2007) (co-author)
- A Vintage Conflict Uncorked: The 21st Amendment, The Commerce Clause, and the Fully-Ripened Fight Over Interstate Wine and Liquor Sales, 7 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 279 (2004)
Bar & Court Admissions/Professional Affiliations
- New York, admitted 1/2006
- New Jersey, admitted 12/2005
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- American Bar Association [www]
- New York State Bar Association [www]
- Member, Social Media Law Committee, Commercial & Federal Litigation Section, 2013-present
- Coordinated and presented CLE programs on social media defamation
- New York City Bar [www]
- Member, Information Technology Law Committee, 2011-2014
- TechGC [www]