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| about me = I joined the Wikimedia Foundation in February 2011 as General Counsel, after 25 years of practicing law in the United States and Europe.
Before the Wikimedia Foundation, I was a Deputy General Counsel and Vice-President at eBay, overseeing its legal issues both in the United States and internationally, with a global team of more than 80 lawyers and legal specialists. I had overall responsibility for legal matters arising in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. I have served as a federal prosecutor in Miami, investigating and litigating white-collar and other criminal cases, and was appointed as a liaison between the U.S. Department of Justice ([[w:Janet Reno|Janet Reno]]) and the French Ministry of Justice ([[w:Élisabeth Guigou|Élisabeth Guigou]]) with offices in the U.S. Embassy in Paris and the French Ministry of Justice.
I served as an appellate attorney for the Department of Justice, arguing before the federal courts of appeals throughout the U.S., and I have worked at a [[w:Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey|large law firm]] in Washington, D.C. after serving as a [[w:Law clerk#Federal clerkships|federal law clerk]] in the [[w:United States District Court for the District of Columbia|United States District Court for the District of Columbia]]. I graduated from [[w:Georgetown University Law Center|Georgetown University Law Center]] with my [[w:Juris Doctor|Juris Doctor]] in law. Previously, I studied music at the [[w:Peabody Institute|Peabody Conservatory of Music]], French and Political Science at [[w:Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University (Bloomington)]], and French and international law at the [[w:University of Strasbourg|University of Strasbourg]], France. In 2001, I was appointed as a chevalier in the French [[w:Ordre national du Mérite|Ordre national du Mérite]].
I am a California Registered In-House Counsel with my bar license from the District of Columbia Bar.
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