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I am a New York-barred attorney and the founder of Ariel Herzog Law PLLC, a corporate practice focused on business law and on the privacy, security, and AI issues that arise in commercial contracting. I began my career in the corporate group at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York, working in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and general corporate matters. I handle transactions across the full lifecycle — letters of intent, purchase agreements, due diligence, disclosure schedules, ancillary documents, and closing — as well as commercial agreements, entity formation, and corporate governance. My practice also involves data processing agreements, security addenda, vendor terms, and AI and data diligence, including helping companies resolve enterprise contracts stalled in a customer's security review. I am also the founder of Quarterback, an AI platform for managing M&A transactions.

Since 2003, I have served as outside General Counsel and Litigation Counsel. Each client receives strategic representation laser focused on advancing the client's position. Clients include venture capital firms, closely held companies, business owners, founders, entrepreneurs, investors, international firms, staffing firms, professional athletes, federal government agencies, financial institutions, real estate companies, professionals, brokers, not for profit foundations, art galleries, art collectors, and creatives. I am an AV Preeminent peer review rated attorney, which is the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethical standards. I have also been selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in the area of business litigation - featured in The NY Times. I was a Name Partner at an AV rated midtown law firm before launching an independent law practice offering legal services at the highest levels.

Fema Birch, Esq. | Birch & Associates PC Fema Birch is the founder of Birch & Associates PC, a law firm providing practical, business-focused legal counsel to individuals, entrepreneurs, and companies. His practice focuses on contract drafting and negotiation, business transactions, corporate matters, commercial disputes, and general outside counsel services. Fema works with clients throughout the lifecycle of a business relationship—from structuring an agreement and identifying potential risks at the outset to resolving disputes when contractual relationships break down. His experience includes drafting, reviewing, and negotiating service agreements, independent contractor agreements, employment-related agreements, vendor and consulting contracts, settlement and release agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, commercial leases, corporate agreements, and other business contracts. In addition to private practice, Fema’s experience as in-house counsel provides him with a practical understanding of how contracts operate after they are signed. He approaches agreements not simply as legal documents, but as tools for allocating risk, establishing clear expectations, protecting the client, and reducing the likelihood of expensive disputes. His broader experience includes corporate governance, regulatory and compliance matters, healthcare-related business issues, employment matters, commercial collections, dispute resolution, and litigation. This combination of transactional and litigation experience allows him to evaluate contracts with an eye toward both accomplishing the client’s immediate business objectives and anticipating how contractual provisions may ultimately be interpreted or enforced. Fema earned his Juris Doctor from New York Law School and is admitted to practice law in Indiana. At Birch & Associates PC, the focus is straightforward: responsive communication, practical advice, transparent expectations, and legal work tailored to the client’s actual business needs rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

I'm a corporate attorney with nearly two decades of transactional experience, focused on high-volume, time-sensitive contract review and negotiation. Through my firm, Cunning Law, LLC, I review and negotiate confidentiality, standstill, and non-circumvent agreements and non-reliance letters for private equity, venture capital, real estate, and asset-management clients as part of the Ontra legal network.

Practicing attorney for over 26 years focusing on Landlord/tenant law, Probate/Estate Planning and Real Estate matters.

Sajal Waheed is a New York-admitted intellectual property attorney and founder of Solavere West PLLC. Her practice focuses on U.S. trademark prosecution, portfolio management, brand protection, and trademark disputes, with experience advising domestic and international businesses across technology, e-commerce, consumer products, and emerging brands. She counsels clients on trademark clearance and registrability, federal applications, substantive Office Action responses, post-registration matters, assignments, licensing-related issues, and TTAB oppositions and cancellations. Sajal also works with international IP agencies and businesses requiring U.S. counsel, managing matters from initial strategy through USPTO prosecution and enforcement-related proceedings. Her broader experience includes commercial contracts, corporate legal matters, compliance, copyright enforcement, and high-volume legal review. She brings a practical, commercially focused approach to legal matters, with an emphasis on clear advice, efficient execution, and responsive client service.

I'm a partner at Gilbert Law Group, a labor and employment firm with offices in Melville and Manhattan. My practice centers on the employer-employee relationship, and I represent private and public sector clients on both sides of it. I also draft, review and negotiate the business contracts that companies and individuals rely on every day. On the employment side, I draft and review employee handbooks and workplace policies, employment and executive compensation agreements, severance and separation agreements, and non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements. I counsel clients on wage and hour compliance, independent contractor classification, leave and reasonable accommodation, discipline and discharge, and harassment and retaliation issues. On the contract side, I handle services, consulting and independent contractor agreements, vendor agreements and MSAs, NDAs, licensing agreements and settlement agreements, and I prepare and respond to demand letters in contract, payment and employment disputes. My litigation experience shapes my drafting. I handle matters before federal and state trial and appellate courts and administrative agencies, and I've argued multiple times before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. I know which provisions hold up when an agreement or policy is challenged. I'm admitted in New York and am a member of the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations, where I'm active in their Labor and Employment Law committees. I earned my J.D. from New York Law School and my B.A. from the University of Florida.