Law

My career in law, litigating in courts ranging from New York City’s Housing and Criminal Courts to the courts of many U.S. and foreign jurisdictions, provided me with the opportunity to learn how to manage and create order in continually new environments. 

Every board faces the challenge of making sure that no detail is omitted while creating a whole that is coherent and intuitively reasonable. 

Effective boards provide structures and a management system that integrate the many facets of their work, meeting the unique needs of its organization and members.

An effective board is a carefully managed structure where the details are considered:

• How is the agenda is prepared?
• Who needs to be involved in a decision?
• What information needs to be communicated?
• How and to whom should the information be communicated?
• What will be expected of each board member and each committee?
• How will the work of the committees integrate with the needs of the whole?
• How will the Chair and the Executive Director communicate?
• How will its legal responsibilities be attended to?

These questions must be addressed anew for each organization. In preparing cases for trial, my challenge was always to fit the unique facts and background of each case into a coherent picture that would be intuitively obvious to the judge or jury and then, of course, to be able to respond to the ever present unexpected.