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  VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL
 
Robert W. Iuliano   ROBERT W. IULIANO
 


Principal Practice Areas: faculty and student affairs, sponsored research, regulatory compliance, litigation, investigations, labor and employment, law enforcement, and intellectual property.

Background: Mr. Iuliano graduated from Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and received the Earle K. Shaw Award as the outstanding labor relations student. After clerking for the Honorable Levin H. Campbell of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, he worked in the labor and litigation departments of the Boston law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart. Subsequently, he was an Assistant United States Attorney with the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force in Boston and prosecuted violations of federal gun, drug, and money laundering laws. He currently teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 
  UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS 
 
Diane E. Lopez   DIANE E. LOPEZ     Practice Coordinator
 
Principal Practice Areas: commercial contract law and litigation, intellectual property and technology transfer issues, student affairs, research administration issues, internal investigations and insurance matters, and health law.

Background: A magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Ms. Lopez received her J.D. from Columbia University Law School. Following graduation, she joined O’Melveny & Myers where she remained for eight years, concentrating her practice in commercial litigation. At Harvard she assists the University on a variety of commercial transactions, with a focus on ways the University can protect and manage its intellectual property assets. She advises on health care, privacy, and student affairs issues, on concerns involving the use of human subjects and animals in research, and on issues involving third-party access to research data. Ms. Lopez has spent significant time on legal and legislative matters related to human embryonic stem cell research. She is a member of the University’s Incident Support Team, which coordinates the University’s response to major crisis events. Her outside activities include being a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

 
Jonathan H. Hulbert   JONATHAN H. HULBERT     Administrative Coordinator
 


Principal Practice Areas: Intellectual property, domestic and international technology licensing, commercial law, sponsored research, business ventures.

Background: Mr. Hulbert received a B.A. from Reed College (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A., with honors, from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. In 1987, he taught Securities Regulations as an Adjunct Professor at Hastings College of the Law, University of California. Mr. Hulbert practiced general corporate and business law in San Francisco, before coming to the Boston area, where he joined Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP. Before moving to the General Counsel’s office, he was a partner at Foley Hoag for almost 10 years, concentrating in intellectual property and licensing, sales and distribution arrangements, corporate finance and securities law.

 
Bradley Abruzzi   BRADLEY ABRUZZI
 


Principal Practice Areas: litigation, investigations, faculty and student affairs, sponsored research, and health law.

Background: Mr. Abruzzi studied English literature at Princeton University and New York University, obtaining Bachelor's and Master's degrees, before going on to Harvard Law School, where he served as Executive Editor on the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduating cum laude from Harvard, Mr. Abruzzi worked for a year at Bromberg & Sunstein LLP in Boston, primarily on intellectual property matters. He then served a term as law clerk to the Honorable Nancy Gertner in Boston's federal district court. After his clerkship, Mr. Abruzzi joined the litigation department of Foley Hoag LLP, where he handled constitutional, immigration law, securities, patent infringement, product liability and white-collar crime cases.

 
Ellen Fels Berkman   ELLEN FELS BERKMAN
 
Principal Practice Areas: litigation, investigations, faculty and student affairs, sponsored research, regulatory compliance.

Background: Ms. Berkman received her B.A. magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard College and attended Columbia Law School, where she was Notes Editor of the Law Review. Following law school, Ms. Berkman clerked for the Honorable Joyce Hens Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining the Office of the General Counsel, Ms. Berkman was a partner with the law firms of Baker Botts L.L.P. and Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P., both firms located in Washington, DC. She concentrated her practice in the areas of complex civil litigation and criminal defense, including government and internal investigations, statutory and constitutional matters, employment disputes, and contract-related issues.

 
 
  JULIE FABER
 
Principal Practice Areas: corporate transactions, health law, technology transfer and sponsored research.

Background: Ms. Faber received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. with high honors in Politics from Princeton University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the Office of the General Counsel, Ms. Faber was a University Attorney in the Vanderbilt Office of the General Counsel for fourteen years, providing legal services to Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical Center. She concentrated on corporate law, commercial transactions, health law, conflicts of interest issues, technology transfer and real estate. She also served as counsel to the University Conflicts Committee and as secretary to the Board of Trust Ad Hoc Committee on Corporate Governance.

 
Eileen Finan   EILEEN FINAN
 


Principal Practice Areas: labor and employment, disability law, affirmative action, faculty and student affairs.

Background: Ms. Finan received her B.A. degree summa cum laude from Boston College and attended Columbia Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Following law school, Ms. Finan clerked for the Honorable Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the Office of the General Counsel, Ms. Finan practiced for six years with the law firm of Palmer & Dodge, where she concentrated in the areas of labor and employment, with particular emphasis on representing higher education clients. Prior to law school, Ms. Finan served as Managing Editor of Rutgers University Press. She also holds a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.

 
No Photo   REBECCA GINZBURG
 


Principal Practice Areas: corporate and commercial transactions, intellectual property, security, information technology and athletics.

Background: Ms. Ginzburg received a B.A. in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, magna cum laude, from Amherst College, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law. During law school, she served as Notes Editor on the Boston University Law Review. Upon graduation, Ms. Ginzburg practiced for three years in the corporate department of Ropes & Gray LLP, focusing on debt financing, private equity and sports law. She currently teaches in the First-Year Writing Program at Boston University School of Law.

 
Peter Katz   PETER KATZ
 


Principal Practice Areas: corporate and commercial law, international ventures, intellectual property, technology licensing, privacy.

Background: Mr. Katz is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Benjamin H. Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and worked in the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, an agency of the City of Boston. He then joined the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow where he became a partner and served as a member of the firm's management committee and as chair of the corporate department and of the intellectual property practice group. He came to the Office of the General Counsel from the Boston office of the law firm Day Pitney LLP, where he was a partner. At Harvard, Mr. Katz advises on the planning and structuring of international projects and assists with consulting and other vendor agreements, licensing deals, and a variety of general corporate transactions. He also counsels on privacy and data security issues. Mr. Katz is a member of the University committee on investment policies for retirement plans.

 
Gregory L. Poppe   GREGORY L. POPPE
 
Principal Practice Areas: Tax, corporate and commercial law, charitable giving, trusts and estates, sponsored research, regulatory compliance, and immigration.

Background: Mr. Poppe received a B.A. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. He subsequently practiced general corporate and business law with the Stamford, Connecticut law firm, Cummings & Lockwood, before joining Bergman, Horowitz & Reynolds, P.C. (now Withers Bergman L.L.P.), a tax specialty firm in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was a partner for seven years concentrating in tax, estate planning and general corporate and business law.

 
Heather M. Quay   HEATHER M. QUAY
 
Principal Practice Areas: faculty and student affairs, sponsored research, regulatory compliance, litigation, investigations, and human subjects research.

Background: A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Quay also attended the London School of Economics and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. Following graduation, she practiced for four years with the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, where she concentrated in the areas of litigation and real estate law, representing a range of businesses, individuals, municipalities and institutions. Ms. Quay also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Reginald C. Lindsay of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

 
Daniel S. Rabinovitz   DANIEL S. RABINOVITZ     Counsel for Allston Development
 
Principal Practice Areas: real estate development and land use, permitting, zoning, acquisitions and dispositions, construction and leasing.

Background: Mr. Rabinovitz received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College and attended the Harvard Law School . Following graduation, Mr. Rabinovitz served as a law clerk for the Honorable William G. Young of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, and then served as Administrative Assistant/Counsel to Massachusetts Congressman Edward J. Markey. Before joining the Office of the General Counsel, Mr. Rabinovitz was a partner in the law firm of Goulston & Storrs, where he worked on real estate development and land use matters, with an emphasis on large-scale, complex projects. At Harvard, Mr. Rabinovitz is the primary legal counsel to the Allston development project.

 
Elizabeth Seaman   ELIZABETH SEAMAN
 
Principal Practice Areas: Labor and employment, litigation, investigations, faculty and student affairs.

Background: Ms. Seaman graduated from Middlebury College, cum laude, and received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Boston University School of Law. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Ms. Seaman then joined the Boston law firm of Palmer & Dodge LLP where she practiced employment law for 12 years, first as an associate and then as a partner of the firm. At Palmer & Dodge, higher education clients made up a large part of her practice. Ms. Seaman worked in the publishing industry before law school.

 
 
Audrey Wang   AUDREY WANG
 

Principal Practice Areas: real estate development, leasing, zoning and land use planning, housing.

Background: Ms. Wang received her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was Developments Editor of the Law Review. Before joining the Office of the General Counsel, Ms. Wang was a partner in the Boston office of the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary and prior to that a partner at Hill & Barlow in Boston, where she concentrated her practice on real estate development, land use planning, commercial leasing and affordable housing.

 
  LEGAL SERVICES MANAGER
 
Marilyn Schriever   MARILYN SCHRIEVER
 
Ms. Schriever provides assistance, training, and client support services in a range of practice areas, with particular emphasis on labor and employment matters.

Ms. Schriever has a B.S. from Lesley College and an MBA from Boston University with a concentration in nonprofit management. She was previously employed as a Human Resources Consultant with the Employment Practice Group of Bingham Dana, and prior to that had worked at Harvard in staff positions in the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of Human Resources.

 

 

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