KEN ABDO
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9316
www.lommen.com
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Ken is a Vice President of Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg, P.A. He has served as legal counsel to many artists for over 20 years including multiple GRAMMY® award recipients as well as gold and platinum recording artists.
He is a voting member of The Recording Academy® and served on its Chicago Chapter Board of Governors. He is a former National Chair of The GRAMMY Foundation® Entertainment Law Initiative. He is a Past National Chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. For 11 years, he was Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN, where he helped design the schools first entertainment law curriculum.
Ken is a frequent national lecturer and a published author on entertainment law topics. He is a contributing author to the widely used law school textbook, “Law & Business of the Entertainment Industries” (Biederman, et al.).
With an affiliated office in New York City, Lommen Abdo’s entertainment law department provides entertainment and sports transactional and litigation services. |
PAUL BEZILLA
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9344
www.lommen.com |
Paul Bezilla, shareholder of Lommen Abdo Law Firm, has been practicing entertainment law for over 25 years and has extensive experience in all segments of the practice. During his career, he has provided legal services for an array of high profile individuals and companies, including Frank Sinatra, Cher, Quincy Jones, Warner Bros. Records, The Walt Disney Company, PolyGram Music Publishing and K-tel Records. His practice encompasses music, film, television, intellectual property, technology, software and licensing.
Paul has been a featured speaker at numerous entertainment industry seminars presented by the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the California Copyright Conference and the Minnesota State Bar Association. He has frequently lectured on entertainment law topics in the Music Department of the University of Southern California and taught courses in music business law for the Graduate Film Composing Program at USC.
Paul is a life-long musician who continues to pursue his love of music performance by playing bass guitar in various rock and jazz groups. |
JOAN BIBELHAUSEN
Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers
2550 University Avenue West
Suite 313 N
St. Paul, MN 55114
(651) 646-5590
www.mnlcl.org
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Joan Bibelhausen is Executive Director of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers. Joan received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and has significant additional training in the areas of counseling, mental health and addiction, diversity, employment issues and management. She has spent more than two decades working with lawyers who are at a crossroads because of mental illness and addiction concerns as well as work/life balance, stress and related issues.
Joan is a member of the MN State Bar Association, Hennepin and Ramsey County and American Bar Associations, and MN Women Lawyers, among others. She currently serves on the ABA Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs (CoLAP), chairs CoLAP’s Education Committee and is on its Conference Planning and Judicial Resource Committees. She has chaired the MSBA Life and the Law Committee and the HCBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section and has co-chaired the HCBA Diversity Committee. Joan also served on the MSBA Board of Governors and HCBA's Strategic Planning and Leadership Institute task forces. She has developed and presented numerous CLE and other programs and has written on mental health and addiction, career and life balance and satisfaction, stress, diversity, marketing and other issues of concern to the legal profession. |
JEFF BRABEC
Chrysalis Music Group
Vice President, Business Affairs
8447 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 400
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(323) 658-3312
www.MusicAndMoney.com
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Jeff Brabec is Vice President of Business Affairs for the Chrysalis Music Group (representing the catalogues of OutKast, Sheryl Crow, Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse, John Denver, Leon Russell, My Morning Jacket, Blondie, David Bowie, Paul Anka, Billy Idol, Jethro Tull, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A3 (“The Sopranos” theme), Brendon Benson, David Gray, Dan Wilson, TV on the Radio and Ray LaMontagne).
He specializes in evaluating, analyzing, projecting income and negotiating music publishing catalogue acquisitions as well as songwriter, co-publishing, participation, administration, subpublishing and joint venture agreements. He has negotiated more than 1,000 movie, television, video, new technology and advertising commercial agreements for chart writers, writer-recording artists and writer-producers.
Previously, he has been Vice President of Business Affairs for The PolyGram Music Group and Director of Business Affairs for both The Welk Music Group and Arista-Interworld Music Group where he represented the catalogues of Elton John, Henry Mancini, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Hall & Oates, Jerome Kern, and Oscar Hammerstein II, among others. A graduate of New York University School of Law, he has also been a government legal services attorney.
Brabec is the co-author with his twin brother Todd (former Executive Vice President of ASCAP) of the best-selling book "MUSIC, MONEY, AND SUCCESS: The Insider's Guide To Making Money In The Music Business" (6th Edition / Schirmer Trade Books/Music Sales) and has been awarded the Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism.
Brabec is an adjunct professor at USC Thornton School of Music/Business Division, guest lecturer teaching music publishing for Berklee School of Music, contributing editor to the Entertainment Law & Finance Magazine and has written numerous articles on the music industry which have appeared in the NARAS Journal, New York Law Journal, Advertising Age, Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment, Publishing And The Arts Handbook, Entertainment Law & Finance Magazine, the Entertainment Law Reporter and the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers Music Handbook.
Brabec also lectures extensively on the business and legal aspects of the music industry including the American Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, Association of Independent Music Publishers, Game Developers Conference, the California Copyright Conference, American Film Institute, Billboard/Hollywood Reporter’s Annual Film and Television Conference, the California Bar Association, The Beverly Hills Bar Association, South by Southwest, the Texas Bar Association, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Borders Books, Southwestern Law School, Loyola Law School, numerous universities, songwriter organizations, ASCAP, Taxi and the national Guitar Center chain. |
TODD BRABEC
18375 Ventura Boulevard
Suite 524
Tarzana, CA 91356
(818) 645-5754
www.MusicAndMoney.com |
Todd Brabec, former ASCAP Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership, is an Entertainment Law Attorney, a Deems Taylor award winning writer and co-author with his brother Jeff of “Music Money and Success: The Insider’s Guide to Making Money In The Music Business” (6th Edition, Schirmer Books / Music Sales, 505 pages), an Adjunct Associate Professor at the USC Thornton School of Music where he teaches the course on music publishing, the licensing of music in all media, foreign country royalties and film, television and videogame scoring and song contracts, a graduate of the New York University School of Law, a former legal services attorney in Chicago and a current Governing Committee Member and former Music and Budget Chair for the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.
As Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership for ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), during a career that spanned more than 3 decades, he was responsible for and in charge of all aspects of the Society’s membership operations throughout the world encompassing 350,000 U.S. songwriters, composers and music publishers, over 1 million foreign society writers and publishers and 7 offices. In this role, he was in charge of all membership policies and personnel, writer and publisher signings, the retention of members, songwriter, composer and music publisher payment formulas and execution, foreign society member dealings, competitive payments and systems analysis, advances and projections of income, dealings with lawyers, managers and agents and recommendations as to what ASCAP needed to do to be successful in the competitive world of licensing and songwriter, composer and music publisher royalty payments. Under his leadership and direction over 30 plus years in both the New York and Los Angeles offices, ASCAP grew from 30,000 members to over 350,000, from 60 million dollars in revenue to 1 billion dollars in receipts and from less than a 20% market share of all U.S. radio, television and film performances to market share dominance in every major media.
Todd has over 300 educational articles published and lectures extensively throughout the world on all aspects of the business, economic, legal and financial side of music at colleges and universities, conferences, state and national bar associations, seminars, law schools, technology companies, management firms, foreign country collection and licensing societies, and songwriter associations including South By Southwest, Canadian Music Week, American Bar Association annual conferences, Midem, International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, American Federation of Musicians, Hollywood Reporter / Billboard Conference, Game Developers Conference, Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, Taxi, PRS, SOCAN, APRA, IMRO, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Song Summit Sydney, ASCAP Expo, American Film Institute and many others.
College, university and law school guest lecturing and teaching include USC, NYU, University of Miami, Syracuse University, Berklee College of Music, Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State, Loyola New Orleans, Adelphi, Thomas Jefferson Law, University of Florida, University of Texas, Trebas Institute, Hastings School of Law, Florida State, UCLA, Miami Dade, Five Towns College and Southwestern Law, among many others. |
BOB DONNELLY
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
133 West 25th Street
Fifth Floor East
New York, NY 10001
(212) 683-8775
www.lommen.com |
This marks Bob Donnelly’s 34th year as a music attorney. His clients, who include members of the Rock and Jazz Hall of Fames, have awarded him 40 platinum plaques. A case he brought for past due royalties resulted in a $55 million dollar award to musicians. Donnelly is a popular commentator on music issues. |
THOMAS DOUGHERTY
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9330
www.lommen.com |
Tom Dougherty provides advice on managing all of the legal needs of his clients including advice on enterprise formation and structure, all daily operational and governance aspects of the business organization, real estate leasing, real and personal property financing, real estate sales and acquisitions, employee compensation issues, purchase and sale of business organizations, structuring member or shareholder agreements, succession and estate planning with respect to business enterprises, individual and business income tax planning, tax-free reorganizations, tax-exempt organizations, tax controversy issues before the Internal Revenue Service and state agencies and other tax matters.
Tom focuses his practice on the needs of closely held businesses and entrepreneurs. Tom previously served the private business sector where he served as general counsel for a closely held company with sales throughout North America. Tom brings this expertise to his clients serving as the "outside" general counsel for business clients providing them with prompt, responsive and cost effective advice. |
BRYAN FELDHAUS
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9389
www.lommen.com |
Mr. Feldhaus is a fifth-year associate at the Lommen Abdo law firm. He represents clients in a wide variety of civil litigation, including business disputes, shareholder and partnership litigation, creditor's remedies, securities fraud and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Feldhaus also practices in the areas of legal malpractice defense and products liability litigation.
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SCOTT GOLDMAN
GRAMMY Foundation® and MusiCares
Los Angeles, CA
www2.grammy.com |
Scott Goldman joined the GRAMMY Foundation® and MusiCares in December 2005. Prior to that he was Vice President of Development at City of Hope. From 1991 to 2005 he ran the organization’s fundraising efforts within the music and entertainment industries. He also oversaw City of Hope’s network of 10 regional fundraising offices around the country. He began his fundraising career in 1983 with United Cerebral Palsy in Northern California. In 1985, he joined the March of Dimes bay area chapter as San Francisco Division Director. He went on to found the Northern California Chapter of the RP Foundation Fighting Blindness in 1987. Goldman is also a professional musician appearing at clubs and festivals around the country. A native of New York, Goldman received his Bachelor of Science degree in theatre from Skidmore College.
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CHRISTIE ROTHENBERG HEALEY
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-1269
www.lommen.com
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Until joining Lommen Abdo in January of 2006, Christie Rothenberg Healey spent ten years as an independent business advisor to entertainment industry clients, including The Independent Television Service, Audubon Productions, Jim Henson Associates, Viacom and Miramax and several individual producers, writers and film-makers. Her career started in the music business in her native England working with Chrysalis Records and guitarist, Jeff Beck. Following a move to the United States she joined the Los Angeles entertainment law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and began working with their film industry clients. When film producer Peter Guber merged his independent production company with Neil Bogart’s Casablanca FilmWorks, Christie left the law firm to work in business affairs at the new company. In 1983 the newly-formed studio, Tri Star Pictures, recruited Christie to join the business affairs team. Christie has been a Vice President of Business Affairs at Tri Star Pictures, Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures (now known as Sony Pictures) and a Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at the children’s television company, Lancit Media Productions, Inc. She focuses on client intellectual property protection exploitation and licensing in all media, and client business affairs management and development. Christie is currently pursuing an advanced certification in Intellectual Property Law for Paralegals.
Christie has lectured at the University of New York at New Paltz, helped in the founding of the Open Network and was part of the executive team creating the independent digital telecaster, Link TV. She is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate for children in the foster care system. |
LEE HUTTON
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9301
www.lommen.com |
Lee Hutton has a burgeoning sports entertainment and advertising law practice. Mr. Hutton represents athletes in player and entertainment contract negotiations, as well as organizing instructional camps for his sports clientele. In addition, he currently serves as a member of several community boards in the Twin Cities area. He has repeatedly been on the Rising Star list by Minnesota Law & Politics, a 2008 Up & Coming Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer and received a 40 Under Forty award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.
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MICHAEL MARTIN
EFFECT PartnersTM, Inc./Music Matters
4208 Park Glen Road
Minneapolis, MN 55416
952-426-7800
www.effectpartners.com |
Michael Martin is the Founder and CEO of Effect Partners, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm/think tank that works to effect positive change in the world through creating new models of business/social change innovation. Through EFFECT”s partnerships with values-led businesses, organizations and leaders in the music industry, Michael has created and led some of the most innovative business social change campaigns and practices of the last decade. One of the country’s top social change activists, Michael consults with well known brands and bands to make environmental change a part of their business strategy. He and his team create social change campaigns, concepts, experiences, new products and marketing initiatives that deliver social change AND bottom line results.
As an example of his leadership in this space, Michael created the concept of EFFECT Marketing™. EFFECT Marketing is where social change is created to build a brand and is quickly becoming a standard in business. For example, he created the Ben & Jerry’s Dave Matthews Band “One Sweet Whirled” Lick Global Warming flavor that started the movement of positioning a brand as the campaign and a campaign as a brand. This model has been followed by such organizations as RED. He also developed the “Enviro Rider” guide to sustainable touring years ago that has become the bible for green music touring and the business standard in music today.
For over 20 years now, Michael has focused on creatively helping businesses address global warming, reduce toxins and pesticides and increase community activism by making it profitable to do so.
Michael is a Board Member of the Environmental Media Association (EMA) and Climate Counts and is working on the book, “EFFECT Marketing.” |
TIMOTHY MATSON
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9331
www.lommen.com |
Tim Matson combines a practice in the areas of entertainment law, commercial litigation and intellectual property. A major focus of his practice has been intellectual property litigation. His clients include individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, musicians and entertainers. Mr. Matson has authored articles on entertainment issues for the Minnesota State Bar Association Arts & Entertainment Law Section and the Minnesota Music Academy. He recently published an article, “Get a legal physical for intangible assets,” in the June/July 2008 edition of Upsize Magazine. Mr. Matson has been on the Rising Star list by Minnesota Law & Politics. He is admitted in Minnesota and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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SCOTT NELSON
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9320
www.lommen.com |
Scott Nelson is chair of the estate planning practice group, and assists individuals and closely-held businesses with tax, business and all aspects of estate planning. He counsels business owners on business succession and coordinated estate planning, and advises families on transfer of assets during lifetime or upon death. His practice includes advice to trust and estate fiduciaries (trustees and executors), beneficiaries and charitable organizations. Scott is treasurer of the Governing Council of the MSBA Probate & Trust Law Section and chairs its legislation committee, serves on several planned giving committees, has served as a board member or officer for various professional and non-profit organizations, and is a frequent faculty member and guest speaker on estate and tax planning issues. He publishes professional tax, business and estate planning articles, and services clients in Minnesota and the Western Wisconsin region. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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BARRY O'NEIL
Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9342
www.lommen.com |
Barry O'Neil's practice involves the resolution of commercial disputes, including entertainment contract and intellectual property matters; liability claims; employment-related issues and insurance claims. Mr. O'Neil works with artists as well as small and medium size companies to make wise business choices in the area of litigation. Mr. O'Neil has been included in the Super Lawyers® list by Minnesota Law & Politics. He is admitted in Minnesota and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
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HAROLD OWENS
Musicares/MAP Fund
3030 Olympic Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 581-1258
www2.musicares.com |
Harold Owens has been working in the field of substance abuse treatment for the past 22 years. During that time he has worked extensively with the entertainment community to address the problems of addiction and to provide substance abuse treatment services. He currently serves as the senior director of the MusiCares/MAP fund. |
LES PICO
Minnesota Vikings
www.vikings.com
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Entering his sixth season with the Minnesota Vikings but his 13th with the National Football League, Les Pico serves as the Vikings' Executive Director of Player Development/Legal.
Pico is responsible for player-related issues both on and off the field. Pico is directly involved with personal welfare and legal issues that arise concerning players, coaches and staff. Other areas of Pico’s expertise and responsibilities include implementing player programs to assist with continuing education, family assistance and career internships. Pico assists the personnel staff by evaluating players at the NFL combine who are draft eligible and assists in evaluations during pro free agency. Pico is involved with the administration of the annual rookie symposium that is attended by all NFL drafted rookies. Also, Pico serves as a liaison between the NCAA and the Vikings.
In 2005, Pico implemented a Vikings “mini symposium” to assist rookie players in their transition to the NFL. In 2006, Pico implemented the NFL Conduct Management Program in order to address the issues of substance abuse, emotional intelligence, impulse control and anger management. In 2008, Pico was honored by the NFL for having the top player development program and having an NFL record of nine players enrolled in school for continuing education.
Pico joined the Vikings after four seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs, where he worked as Player Development Coordinator/Legal. Pico worked with NFL Security from 1998 to 2000 and processed high profile infractions cases for the NCAA from 1991 to 1998.
A native of Mesa, Arizona, Pico was a college football student athlete where he completed his bachelor’s degree (cum laude) at Arizona State (1987). Pico then went on to coach football at Washburn University, where he completed his law degree from Washburn University School of Law in 1991. |
CONSTANTINE ROUSSOS
.MUSIC (dotMusic)
468 North Camden Drive
Suite 123
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 860-4745
www.music.us
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Constantine Roussos has long been on the cutting edge of emerging technologies in the music entertainment and internet (affiliate, social media, search & SEO) industry. He is the pioneer behind dotMusic (.MUSIC), the top-level domain name and industry standard for official music websites on the Web. It paves the way for the post-dotCOM era and next-generation of the internet by building a home to everything related to music, giving music entities an exclusive, branded .MUSIC domain web address.
Constantine earned a bachelor degree in Business and a minor in music industry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He continued his education at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, becoming a certified music sound engineer. He continued his education at Pepperdine University in Malibu where he earned his MBA. His last educational journey was Harvard Business School at the distinguished Executive Owner President Management (OPM) program.
He has given presentations and spoken at prestigious universities as well as music and tech industry panels around the world, including Harvard Business School, USC, UCLA, NYU, Georgetown University, Pepperdine University, ICANN, Social Media Week, CMJ, Future of Music Coalition Summit, Popkomm and San Francisco Music Tech. He has also received numerous awards, including “Music Innovator” presented by SoundCtrl at SXSW as well as “Top Business Plan” at USC’s Entrepreneur Program. |
DAN SATORIUS
Satorius Law Firm, PLLC and
Of Counsel with Lommen Abdo Law Firm
80 South Eighth Street
Suite 2000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 336-9332
www.lommen.com |
Dan Satorius’s practice focuses on transactions, intellectual property, and financing principally in the entertainment business. His clients include Academy Award, Emmy Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Peabody Award winning independent producers, writers, and television stations in the film and television industry. He is a Minnesota Super Lawyer in Entertainment Law as published in Minnesota Super Lawyers magazine. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell (highest competency).
After graduating from film school and law school, Dan produced award winning documentary and short dramatic films. His graduate thesis film was selected as a finalist for a student Academy Award. In addition to practicing entertainment law for more than 25 years, he has been an adjunct professor of law at William Mitchell School of Law where he taught Entertainment Law. He also produces independent documentaries and feature films. Dan’s broad background and practical experience in the film and television industry give him a unique ability to help his clients and their projects.
Over the past year he produced TWELVE THIRTY, a dramatic feature-length motion picture written and directed by Jeff Lipsky. The film was in competition at the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival and will be released in January 2011.
Dan is frequent speaker at national seminars on topics relating to the film and television industry. He has written many articles on topics of interest to producers and writers and to the lawyers who represent them. He is also a member and former chairman of the Minnesota State Bar Association - Art and Entertainment Law Section and an active member of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries where he is an associate editor of THE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS LAWYER, Co-Vice Chair of Film and Television Division, and a member of the Governing Committee. |
NED SHERMAN
Digital Media Wire, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
www.dmwmedia.com |
As Co-Founder, CEO & Publisher of Digital Media Wire, Inc., Ned Sherman works at the center of the rapidly growing digital media industry, where he brokers relationships and keeps a tab on the most important developments shaping the industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Publisher Ned Sherman is more than the average pundit: He is an attorney and has an inside grasp of what is happening.”
Ned is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted and profiled in publications including The Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, LA Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard and interviewed and featured on C-SPAN and National Public Radio (NPR). Ned is a board member of The Technology Council of Southern California and is a judge for the annual Mobile Excellence Awards. He is also founder and creator of the Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards, which he sold to VNU/Nielsen in 2006.
Ned is active in global media affairs, recently launching the Canadian Media Wire news service and serving as a judge for the O2 Digital Media Awards in Ireland, moderator at the annual MIDEM Global Music Exposition in Cannes, France, and chair of Digital Strategies Conference @ Canadian Music Week in Toronto.
Ned is a member of the California bar association and practices entertainment and corporate law representing a variety of clients in entertainment and media ventures. Before co-founding Digital Media Wire, Ned was a founding member of the iLaw Group in the Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Los Angeles, where he handled licensing and corporate transactions and financings for media and entertainment clients including Universal Studios and MGM and launched dozens of Internet and new media start-ups. He has counseled company founders from initiation of a business plan to seed, angel, venture capital and later-stage private financings and managed all legal aspects of Internet clients from corporate organization, stockholder relationships, board compositions and dynamics, stock option plans, capital raising and security regulatory matters, Internet law issues, trademark, copyright, content and technology licensing, advertising and privacy issues.
From 1997 to 1999, he practiced in the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown & Platt where his practice centered on representation of U.S. and foreign banks in syndicated lending transactions and securitization matters.
From 1995 to 1997, he was a foreign lawyer at Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice involved international mergers and acquisitions and the formation of technology and entertainment joint venture companies. He also served as President of the Roppongi Bar Association in Tokyo, the leading association for foreign lawyers working in Japan.
In 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer of Law at Tulane University Law School where he taught an entertainment law seminar. Ned is a graduate of Brown University (AB, with honors, 1990) and the University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1994) where he was Chief Articles & Notes Editor of the Texas International Law Journal and winner of the national Scribes Awards for his article on the human rights ramifications of U.S. reservations to international death penalty treaties.
Ned is active in alumni affairs for Brown University and is currently Southern California Chair for Brown University's Alumni Interview Program. He has traveled extensively from Europe to Asia to South America to Northern Africa. Ned is married and lives with his wife, son and daughter in Los Angeles, California. |