Meet John
I am a commercial and business lawyer with 15 years of experience helping businesses of all sizes navigate the complex legal landscape. I have negotiated and drafted everything from simple vendor contracts to complex matters, like asset purchase agreements and mergers. I have helped start-ups choose their business forms and become authorized in various states. In addition, I help my clients protect and exploit their intellectual capital through technology licenses, non-disclosure agreements, and litigation defense. I represent businesses and individuals in discrete litigation matters in New York State Civil and Supreme Courts, where I have secured favorable settlements and money judgments for my clients. I also provide litigation assistance to other small-firm practitioners and assist consumers and tenants in the city’s housing courts.
A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, I helped found the Northeastern University Law Journal—a journal that emphasized the practical aspects of progressive lawyering. I also provided research assistance for Professor Peter Enrich on Cuno v. Daimler-Chrysler, a case he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
During my time at Northeastern, I completed four co-operative education placements—full-time internships each lasting eleven weeks—where I gained valuable experience working on substantive tasks with lawyers, firms, and government agencies. I served as an intern in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, as a judicial intern for Judge Dolores Sloviter at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, at Brody, Hardoon, Perkins, and Kesten (a Boston civil and insurance defense firm), and with the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) District Attorney’s Office.
I have enjoyed my volunteer work with the Bronx CLARO program, which provides consumer law advice to pro se defendants in Bronx Civil Court. At CLARO, I helped people answer their cases, make discovery requests, oppose summary judgment motions, and break contracts with unscrupulous debt-consolidation companies. I have also provided pro bono work with the New York City Bar Association’s Consumer Bankruptcy Project, helping pro se debtors complete and file their Chapter 7 petitions. Finally, I served on the Civil Courts Committee of the New York City Bar Association, where I drafted an amicus brief in support of the New York Attorney General’s suit against the Northern Leasing companies, and hosted a presentation on New York City’s newly enacted Freelance Isn’t Free Act, a law protecting gig workers.