Experience

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  Columbia university and center for social and legal research

  Sept 1986 - May 1990

  Research assistant

  -Commented on laws impacting business, consumer, and employee privacy rights in bi-monthly business publication.-Authored comprehensive briefing books in support of Fortune 10 corporation's congressional and state lobbying activities.

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  Privacy & american business

  Jan 1994 - Dec 1994

  Legal editor | researcher
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  Concord city prosecutor

  Jan 1995 - Jun 1995

  Special assistant prosecutor

  Prepared, negotiated, and tried criminal cases.

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  Orr & reno

  Jan 1995 - Jun 1995

  Associate attorney

  Project attorney focused on updating seminal environmental law handbook.Part-time/Temporary

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  Plymouth court jurisdictional association

  Jun 1995 - Jul 1998

  Plymouth area prosecutor

  -Tried approximately 750 cases before the bench and handled over 3,000 cases.-Assisted with criminal investigations and accompanied police on patrol.-Designed criminal law courses and presented classroom instruction to police.Developed and managed ~$85,000 annual office budget.

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  Knights of columbus

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  CEO of 7,000 member NH State Council. Chief legal and compliance officer of New Hampshire State Council.

  • State Deputy

    Jan 1999 - Jan 1999

  • State Advocate

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
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  Belknap county, state of new hampshire

  Jul 1998 - Dec 2002

  Assistant county attorney

  -Successfully litigated or negotiated approximately 320 felony criminal cases.-Directed criminal investigations and accompanied police on patrol.-Chaired domestic violence coordinating council.-Taught criminal law and investigation strategies to police in the classroom.

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  Knights of columbus

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2000

  State advocate

  Chief legal and compliance officer of New Hampshire State Council.

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  Grafton county, state of new hampshire

  Jan 2003 - Oct 2009

  Grafton county attorney

  -Served as elected chief law enforcement authority and agency head.-Devised and executed public policy relating to law enforcement and safety.-Litigated and negotiated felony criminal cases to successful conclusions.-Directed police investigations and grand jury investigations.-Developed and managed annual budget of nearly $1mil.-Supervised attorneys, investigator, victim/witness program, and staff.-Actively interacted with the community, attorney general, chiefs of police, political representatives, and the media.-Testified before legislative committees on criminal justice matters.Noted accomplishments:-Formed and directed broad coalition that designed and implemented a drug court sentencing program, which received the 2007 Community Transformation Award from the National Drug Court Institute.-Transformed county attorney's office into a professional legal and law enforcement agency by improving legal and case management procedures, adding human and material resources, and constructing physical office space.-Improved sexual assault and domestic violence investigations by promoting and implementing a child advocacy center and a sexual assault response team.-Stopped surge of methamphetamine manufacturing through program of active community outreach, strong agency partnership, and aggressive prosecution.-Secured federal grant money to fund victim/witness program, a domestic violence prosecutor, drug court training, and case manager.-Formed committee that authored draft administrative rules for the NH Division of Historical Resources. Show less

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  Various

  Jan 2004 - now

  Lecturer

  Invited university and association lecturer discussing various aspects of cultural property law, antiquities trafficking, and museum risk management. Recent highlights include:• George Washington University, Transnational Organized Crime course, "Antiquities Trafficking" (2024)• International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection, “Confiscation of Trafficked Artifacts” (2023)• Harvard University Extension School, Art Crime: Implications and Investigations course, “The Dirty Business of Antiquities Trafficking: Uncovering the Plunderers, Players, and Profits of Cultural Heritage Crime” (2024, 2023)• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Smuggled, Stolen, and Sold: Art Restitution in the 21st Century” (2023)• NH Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, “Please. Do Not Touch That! And Two More Lessons from the World of Museum Law (2022)• Yale Security Week, “Transnational Antiquities Trafficking and the CPIA” (2022)• UNH Franklin Pierce Law School, Art Law, “Antiquities and Money Laundering” (2021)• International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection, “The CPIA Made Simple" (2020) Show less

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  Plymouth state university

  May 2007 - Sept 2014

  Affiliate faculty - cultural property law

  Taught graduate students about the laws applicable to cultural property and museums, with special emphasis on treaties, statutes, and case law focused on art and antiquities trafficking.

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  Attorney & counselor at law

  Oct 2009 - Sept 2014

  Attorney and principal

  Founder, principal, and private practitioner concentrating on criminal justice, nonprofit law, cultural property law, political and government affairs, mental health, and religious institutions.

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  Red arch cultural heritage law & policy research

  Aug 2013 - Apr 2022

  Founded nonprofit and assembled team of subject matter experts to generate solutions to critical cultural property law and policy problems, particularly transnational antiquities trafficking. Provided leadership, strategic planning, compliance, public policy, and communications expertise to officers and directors. Launched the groundbreaking K-9 Artifact Finders program. Formed nonprofit corporation to safeguard endangered cultural heritage. Recruited talent to the organization.

  • Executive Director

    Aug 2013 - Apr 2022

  • Founder

    Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
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  Knights of columbus

  Sept 2014 - now

  Deliver executive level strategic advice, risk-management counsel, and key legal decision-making to a global not-for-profit that is ranked among the Fortune 1000 and is a leader in charitable giving, humanitarian assistance, faith-based programs, life insurance, institutional investing, and donor advised funds. Forbes lists the KofC among America's Best Insurance Companies.The SVP/DGC oversees commercial litigation, supervises outside counsel, and advises on issues involving litigation, non-profit governance, business contracts, torts, administrative proceedings, employment, immigration, child safety, regulatory compliance, media & communications, privacy, religious liberty, and intellectual property.The SVP/DGC's significant international law portfolio focuses on the delivery of charitable assistance to those in need in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.The cultural property law portfolio fortifies the administration of the Knights of Columbus Museum/Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center, the KofC Archives, and the Saint John Paul II National Shrine and Institute.Along with the General Counsel, the SVP/DGC directly supervises in-house attorneys, paralegals, and staff.The SVP/DGC is responsible for forecasting and administering multi-million dollar budgets and for contributing to enterprise-wide decisions surrounding technology and information management. Show less

  • Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Deputy General Counsel

    Apr 2017 - Oct 2023

  • Associate General Counsel

    Sept 2014 - Apr 2017
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  U.s. department of state

  Jan 2020 - Oct 2022

  Cultural property advisory committee - presidential appointee

  Tasked with evaluating and offering expert advice on proposed international cultural property agreements between the United States and foreign nations, aimed at mitigating the trafficking of looted archaeological and ethnological materials.Agreements reviewed included Afghanistan, Albania, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Tunisia, and Turkey.

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  The johns hopkins university

  Sept 2021 - Jan 2024

  University lecturer

  Program in Museums and Society, "Ancient Treasures, Modern Crimes: Antiquities Trafficking & The Law" (Intersession Course AS.389.245.21IN24, January 2024)Department of History and Art, “Looting the Cradle of Civilization: Examining Archaeological Site Theft in Babylon, Iraq, and Beyond" (Guest Lecture, March 2023)Department of History and Art, “At the Crossroads of Art & Law: The Antiquities Trafficking Case of US v. Schultz” (Guest Lecture, September 2021)

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  Friends of new hampshire drug courts

  Feb 2022 - now

  Board member
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  Nh department of natural & cultural resources, nh division of historical resources

  Nov 2023 - now

  New hampshire state historical resources council member - gubernatorial appointee
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  Asor (american society of overseas research)

  Jan 2024 - now

  Board trustee
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  American research center in egypt

  Apr 2024 - now

  Board of governors