Employment Data

Academic Appointments

1987 - present HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Professor of Law and Co-Director, Hofstra University-North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Systems Center for Children, Families and the Law

2000 - present NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry

1993 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Adjunct Professor

1980 - 1986 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Associate Professor

1978 - 1980 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW CENTER

Visiting Associate Professor

Work Experience

1995 - present MORRISON, COHEN, SINGER & WEINSTEIN,

New York, N.Y.

Of counsel: in complex business and matrimonial litigation

1987 - 1993 WILLIAM S. BESLOW, ESQUIRE, New York, N.Y.

Of counsel: to law firm specializing in matrimonial litigation.

1985 - 1987 POLLACK & KAMINSKY, New York, N.Y.

Associate: in business and securities litigation.

1978 - 1980 DECASTRO, WEST & CHODOROW, Los Angeles, CA.

Associate: in a wide variety of business litigation.

1977 - 1978 STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON TRIAL COURT IMPROVEMENTS

Consultant: drafted major reports and legislation to improve judicial administration in the state trial courts.

1975 - 1977 TUTTLE & TAYLOR, Los Angeles, CA

Associate: represented airplane manufacturer in multi-district litigation arising out of Paris Air Crash and other civil litigation.

1973 - 1975 LOS ANGELES CITY ATTORNEY

Special Counsel: counsel to a Committee of the Los Angeles City Counsel for an investigation involving conflicts of interest in sale of oil leases by City. Drafted campaign finance reform legislation, legal opinions on constitutional issues, policy position papers and speeches. Established Office recruiting and training program.

1972 - 1973 LAW CLERK TO JUDGE JAMES L. OAKES OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT