Lois Woocher Karfunkel

Education

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
B.A., cum laude
Dean's List, four years. Captain, Women's Tennis Team.

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL
J.D., 1971
Dean's List, MA certified mediation program

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LAW SCHOOL TEACHING, Lecturer, BU School of Law, Fall, 2008; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts School of Law (2005, 2006), Small Business: Creation and Operation; Lecturer, Suffolk U. Law School (2005), Animal Law; chaired and presented Animal Law Symposium, day-long presentation at MSL.

CONSULTANT to area attorneys, 2008.

KARFUNKEL LAW OFFICES, Andover, MA: Broad diversified civil practice (litigation(including document review), contracts, small business, corporations, employment, estate planning, securities, real estate (Zoning Bd. of Appeals), family, consumer; appellate advocacy (CPCS); mediation (certified mediator), conciliator, MA Superior Court; mediator, MA district and housing courts.

SHAPIRO, ISRAEL & WEINER, Boston, MA: Sophisticated general business practice: legal research and writing; commercial litigation (securities, banking, bankruptcy).

GENERAL CIVIL PRACTICE -part time, Andover, MA: Consultant to Boston (Gaston, Snow) and Andover-area law firms; private practice on limited basis. Board member and advisor of non-profit community organizations.

J.C. PENNEY CO., New York, NY :Attorney in corporate in-house legal department. Contracts (drafted and negotiated multi-million dollar agreement), regulatory compliance, financial services, banking (J.C. Penney Bank(consumer credit), legislation, marketing, corporate, antitrust, business counseling, supervise outside counsel.

BROWN, PRIFTI, LEIGHTON & COHEN, Boston, MA: Business counseling, antitrust, complex litigation, franchise/distribution, intellectual property, general corporate and commercial, state Securities filings.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Boston, MA: attorney regulator, statutory enforcement: antitrust, marketing, consumer protection, consumer finance, business counseling; administrative law, litigation.

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE, INC., Nashua, N.H.: Diversified civil practice. Counsel to civic and community organizations.

BAR ADMISSIONS

New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire; United States District Court, MA, NY, NH.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORS

American Bar Association: Corporate, Banking & Business Committees
Association of the Bar of the City of New York: Consumer Affairs Committee (Secretary)
N.Y. State Bar Association: Corporate Counsel and Banking, Corporate & Business Law Committees
Selected as an Outstanding Young Woman of America
Who's Who of American Women
Massachusetts Bar Association

Related Experience

Director and lecturer, RealSmarts, Inc. (college presentations combining legal information and theater addressing transition from school to real life)

Author and Faculty lecturer, ALl-ABA and PLI programs.

PUBLICATIONS

"An Introduction to Debt Collection Law",29 The Practical Lawyer 7 (Oct., 1983)

"Debt Collection Regulation: Its Development and Direction for the 1980's", 37 Bus. Lawyer 4 (July, 1982), partially reprinted in PLI Consumer Credit, 1982

"Legislative Background to Truth in Lending Simplification", 54 N.Y.S.B.J. 8 (Dec.. 1981)

Federal Consumer Credit Regulation, the Basics (PLI, 1980), contributor

"The Massachusetts Antitrust Act: A Guide for the Private Practitioner," 3 Western N.Eng.L.Rev. (Summer, 1980)