Partner before starting law school — the first woman named partner in a forty-year-old firm, on origination. A decade on, still the one bringing the business in.
Far fewer hire lawyers who bring it in. A career spent on both sides of that line is unusual — and, for a practice trying to grow, unusually useful.
Most attorneys arrive with technical training and no commercial experience. It takes the better part of a decade before a firm will put them in a room alone with a client, and many never learn to originate at all. Not a criticism of them — simply how the training pipeline is built.
Enterprise client relationships and closed contracts with some of the largest companies in the country — all before the LSAT. A partnership earned on origination. The J.D. and M.B.A. came afterward, landing on top of commercial instincts that were already fully formed.
Increase in firm annual revenue, driven by payment and process management systems designed and implemented in-house.
Reduction in case management time through AI-driven process improvements introduced from inside the practice.
High-volume valuation and assessment matters carried concurrently, negotiated directly with municipal and government officials.
First in a forty-plus year history — elevated for sales performance and strategic growth rather than tenure.
Enterprise clients secured and retained across automotive, aerospace, technology, and insurance.
J.D. cum laude and M.B.A. summa cum laude, earned at the same time, with four merit awards and a journal editorship.
Figures reflect firm-reported outcomes for initiatives led or co-led. Detail available on request.
Each is independently valuable. The combination is the point.
Spearheaded a firm's first business development and acquisition campaign, closed Fortune 50 clients, penetrated specialized professional markets, and co-led a full rebranding. Lead generation through contract close is a process run end to end, in two different industries.
Named the first woman partner in a forty-year-old firm, on performance rather than seniority — and repeatedly given the initiative that did not exist before: the first BD campaign, the rebranding, the process overhaul. The people come with it. Onboarding and training programs for junior team members and incoming cohorts have been designed at three separate organizations.
The through-line of this record is trust built with people under no obligation to extend it — C-suite decision-makers at enterprise accounts, and municipal and government officials seated on the opposite side of an adversarial valuation dispute. Both required understanding what was actually at stake for the other party, and adjusting before the conversation hardened. The same instinct produced the dispute resolution record.
Executive search to two graduate degrees taken concurrently — one cum laude, one summa cum laude — then three distinct practice environments inside four years, each with its own body of law, opposing parties, and economics. Also the person who identified, adopted, and deployed AI tooling in a practice that had never used it. Coachable is the word colleagues reach for. Fast is the more accurate one.
AI-driven process improvements that removed twenty percent of case management time, and payment and workflow systems that materially moved firm revenue. Operational work executed inside a live practice — not theory carried home from a conference panel.
Recipient of the Sidney Storch Legal Research Award and Notes and Comments Editor of the Journal of International Business and Law. Legal research and analysis are the baseline competence of the profession; these were recognized formally, and they underwrite everything above.
Enterprise accounts secured, managed, or fronted as primary client-facing executive during the executive search partnership. Commercial engagements rather than legal representations — but the relationships were direct, the proposals were original, and the standard has not moved since.
Spearheaded the firm's first business development and acquisition campaign, closing Fortune 50 clients and serving as primary client-facing executive on major accounts. Owned the full sales process, authored RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses including complex state and city procurement submissions, and structured compensation and service agreements built for long-term retention.
First woman partner in 40+ yearsBoth degrees earned concurrently. Notes and Comments Editor of the Journal of International Business and Law. First place in the school's internal alternative dispute resolution competition and second in the state at the 2019 NYSBA Mediation Tournament. Government and public-interest placements with the New York Attorney General's office, the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Earthjustice.
Four merit awards · Gold Level Public ServiceHigh-stakes litigation and contract negotiation in technically complex matters requiring close command of a specialized evidentiary record. Co-led strategic business development and rebranding with measurable lead generation into specialized professional markets, and implemented AI-driven process improvements that cut case management time by twenty percent.
20% cycle time removedManages a high-volume docket of valuation and assessment matters on portfolios up to $24M, applying negotiation and litigation strategy to drive favorable financial resolutions. Built durable, trust-based working relationships with municipal and government officials, and implemented payment and process management systems that contributed to a thirty-five percent increase in firm annual revenue.
35% revenue growthTwo qualities colleagues and counterparties name first — and the two hardest things to teach an associate who does not already have them.
Enterprise executives extended real access before there was a law degree in the picture. Municipal assessors and government officials — people with every structural reason to keep a certiorari attorney at arm's length — came to treat the relationship as a known quantity. That kind of trust is not charm. It is the discipline of understanding what the other side actually needs before asking for anything, and it is why so many matters resolve in negotiation rather than on a trial calendar.
Four changes of domain — search to law, law to business, litigation to valuation — and productive in each one faster than the standard on-ramp allows. Two graduate degrees taken concurrently, both with honors, is the clearest proof of throughput. The more useful proof: consistently the person who finds the new tool, learns it unprompted, and then teaches the rest of the team to use it.
Admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Earned concurrently with the M.B.A. Notes and Comments Editor, Journal of International Business and Law, Vol. 20.
Strategy, operations, and finance — applied directly to legal practice management since graduation.
A quantitative, laboratory-trained foundation underneath the legal and business degrees.
Second place statewide; first place in the law school's internal ADR competition.
Recognizing sustained advocacy for environmental causes.
Conferred for demonstrated excellence in legal research and analysis.
Competitive summer fellowship awarded during law school.
Conferred at graduation for sustained commitment to community impact work.
Three environments where the combination above compounds rather than sits idle.
Where a practice grows on relationships, discretion is the product, and holding a family's confidence matters more than volume.
Where the number is the argument — assessment, valuation, and negotiated resolution against sophisticated institutional counterparties.
Firms building a book, modernizing workflow, or entering a new market — where the M.B.A., the origination record, and the automation work do the heavy lifting.
Particularly about private client practice, complex valuation and negotiation, and roles where building the business is part of the job. A full curriculum vitae and references are available on request.