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I am an attorney. Most recently, I was Corporate Counsel at Google, doing software licensing deals. Before that, I was Senior Licensing Counsel at On2 Technologies, a software development company that was acquired by Google in 2010. Before On2, I was General Counsel at NCT Group, a company (now defunct) that developed acoustics and data transmission products and technologies. Before, I was Assistant General Counsel of CBS Cable, the cable television division of CBS Corporation. Before that, I practiced corporate law in New York City at the law firms of Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van Der Tuin and Seyfarth Shaw.
Despite having made my career in the business side of law, I have always maintained an interest in law's academic and political sides as well. I follow Supreme Court and other legal policy developments in the U.S. very closely. My view of legal policy follows the economic, cost-benefit analysis models of people like Guido Calabresi and Richard Posner. Reducing a lofty jurisprudential debates to concrete, practical cost-benefit terms may be distasteful to some. I believe, however, that cost-benefit analysis is occurring whether one admits it or not. In any group setting, choices for allocating finite resources and measurable burdens are inevitably made. Making those choices openly and honestly increases accountability and reduces the influence of irrelevant or irrational factors. Judging, however, by the heated debates my views on this topic have triggered over the years, I would say the approach is not for everyone.
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