Volunteer Service
I enjoy when my law practice provides me with the opportunity to serve as pro bono counsel for arts organizations. I am a former member of the Board of Directors of Voce, Inc. a nonprofit, professional choral group that uses the performing arts to help other nonprofits raise money. I have served as pro bono counsel to a nonprofit art gallery through the Pro Bono Partnership, Inc., and to Friends of WHUS, Inc. I serve as pro bono counsel to Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. These engagements have provided me the opportunity to advise nonprofits on corporate formation, corporate structure, compliance with raffle and fundraising laws, employment law issues, and other corporate law matters.
I have taken great pleasure in other volunteer activities as well:
- Service as a mediator in various federal courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
- Appointment by the Superior Court to serve as an Attorney Arbitrator and Attorney Fact-Finder.
- Human Resource Association of Central Connecticut, past member of Board, past Chair of Legislative Affairs Committee.
- Connecticut Bar Association, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy Section, past Chair, member of Executive Committee, past Chair of Uniform Commercial Code Article 2A Study Subcommittee, past member of Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 Study Subcommittee; ADR Section, member of Executive Committee.
- American Bankruptcy Institute, past editor of ADR Committee Newsletter.
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court D. Conn., past member of Local Rules Drafting Committee.
- Connecticut Law Revision Commission Electronic Communications Drafting Committee, past member.
- Continuing education lectures to the American, Connecticut and Hartford County Bar Associations.
- Connecticut Repertory Theatre, analysis of market research data.
- Tolland County Chamber of Commerce, Lecturer and past member of the Economic Development Committee.