Mr. Nussbaum is admitted to practice law in New Jersey. He earned his law degree from Rutgers University Law School - Newark, his Masters Degree from New York University and is a graduate of Dowling College. He has extensive experience in the law firm environment, working previously as a law clerk for Mattson and Madden, a defense firm in Newark and for the law offices of Robert Mazeau in Hackensack, N.J.

Mr. Nussbaum founded LRSolutions, Inc. in 2000 and has successfuly managed countless projects for law firms and corporate legal department clients. In addition to building LRSolutions' legal network of attorneys, he has put together a world-class management team and he has made contacts with hundreds of law firms nationally and Fortune 500 General Counsel. Mr. Nussbaum is also responsible for building the online compliance venture, including forming a partnership with LogicBay (formerly KLI Learning), a world-class online training, knowledge consulting company for the Fortune 500, organizing the network of attorneys to create the content, supervising the development of each module and developing the brand for licensure.

Ray has also worked previously as a business development executive for FIND/SVP a publicly traded, multinational research/consulting firm.

Ray has also produced legal research and writing projects dealing with subjects including, but not limited to: sovereign immunity issues for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in state park actions; a patient’s right to privacy in his own cells; whistleblowing in the military; judicial immunity, and apparent authority and its relation to agency laws.

VICKIE BLETSO
SENIOR RESEARCH ATTORNEY

Ms. Bletso graduated from Gonzaga University Law School in 1980, Cum Laude. She was a partner in the Boston environmental firm of Wright, Moehrke & Mackie, P.C. in Boston in 1995-96 and has also served as a consultant for Moehrke, Mackie & Shea, formerly Wright, Moehrke, and Mackie (1996-2000). She is licensed in Massachusetts, Arizona, Washington and North Carolina. Her specialty area prior to LRSolutions was in the areas of Environmental Litigation; Environmental Real Estate Transactions; and Environmental Licensing. She has a broad background in general complex litigation work, both plaintiff and defendant. She has worked on briefs in numerous areas of law for LRSolutions, including estate litigation, insurance coverage, criminal, tort, and family law.

HELENA FRANCUS
SENIOR RESEARCH ATTORNEY

Ms. Francus is a 1987 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received her bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York. She is admitted to practice law in California and has more than 15 years experience representing start-up and small to medium size businesses in such legal transactions as commercial real property sales and leasing, UCC sales and secured transactions, entity formation, business sales, and all types of contracts.

Ms. Francus is also an accomplished legal researcher and writer and has analyzed a wide variety of legal issues for LRSolutions, including intellectual property, electronic banking, school district law, contractors' license law, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, fraudulent conveyances, state and local anti-discrimination laws and civil procedure, including appeals.

C. WILLIAM MICHAELS
SENIOR RESEARCH ATTORNEY

Mr. Michaels is an attorney with extensive experience in researching and writing. Before entering law school, he was a writer and editor for college daily or weekly newspapers and in that capacity was a stringer for The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. While attending the University of Maryland School of Law, he held editorial positions for the Law Review (assistant editor) and the Law Forum (associate editor and managing editor), the only student in his class to receive course credit for editorial positions on both publications.

Following law school, Mr. Michaels clerked for a Circuit Court Judge in Howard County, Maryland, for more than one year. He then briefly held a position as Editor and General Manager of a weekly newspaper in Howard County, The Howard County Times, being one of the youngest people to hold that position. He then was a freelance writer and editor, writing weekly columns on a paid basis for two newspapers and conducting researching and drafting of book projects.

Mr. Michaels then held a position for four years with the Baltimore Archdiocese, which involved considerable research, writing, presentations, and project development. Following that position, he was Legal Editor at BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) for its Environment Reporter publication. The position involved daily writing assignments including field reports, analyses, attending Capitol Hill hearings and events, and writing headnotes for court decisions published in the publication's case reporting volumes.

After the BNA position, Mr. Michaels established his own solo law office concentrating on research and writing for other attorneys in addition to occasional trial work. Since 1996, he has concentrated more heavily on appellate matters, writing briefs and arguing cases, in Maryland appellate courts and Federal appellate courts. He has written briefs for cases in several other State appellate courts (including Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California) as well as in every Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Michaels is a member of the Maryland Bar and a member of the Bar of: The US Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Federal Circuit, Fourth Circuit, and Sixth Circuit. Mr. Michaels attended Brandeis University, earning a BA in 1975, magna cum laude with additional Honors in Politics. He earned his law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law in 1978,where he was a member of Law Review and Law Forum.

Mr. Michaels is a former adjunct professor of legal research and writing at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He currently is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Daily Record, the daily legal and business newspaper for Baltimore and Maryland.

HELEN PARKER
SENIOR RESEARCH ATTORNEY

Ms. Parker is a 1981 graduate of Fordham University School of Law. She received her B.A. in 1975 from Pace University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Ms. Parker was an Administrative Law judge for the New York City Department of Finance, from 2001-2004, where she presided over bench trials on municipal issues. Previously, she was a consultant to Prudential Financial Inc, where she served in the Group Life and Health Care Insurance Department as compliance manager and trainer, developing training program materials, in addition to researching case law, statutes and regulations and preparing multi-state surveys, legislative tracking and researching compliance issues. Her work at Prudential also involved preparation of interrogatories, settlement of cases, negotiation and drafting of government contracts (CHAMPUS and FAR) and drafting provider and service contracts.

She has worked for over 20 years for Bar/Bri Bar Review preparing students to sit for the New York Bar Examination, while editing, researching and writing outlines used by Bar/Bri as teaching and study materials.

Helen has also worked as an adjunct associate law professor at Fordham University and as an Instructor of Law at Touro College. Her publications include “Use of Narcotic Dogs After U.S. v. Place, Search and Seizure Law Reporter, Clark Boardman, 1985; Basic Legal Forms, Warren, Gorham and Lamont, 1982-1990; Contributor, U.C.C. Code Commentary and Law Digest Forms, Warren, Gorham and Lamont, 1988; Editor, Weinstein on Evidence, and Moore’s Manual on Civil Procedure, Matthew Bender and Company, 1991; Contributing Writer/Editor Bar/Bri Course Outlines, 1983-Present; HIPAA Handbook, On-Line Manual, Legal Research Network, 2000.

LISA RENEE POMERANTZ
DIRECTOR OF ONLINE COMPLIANCE DEVELOPMENT

Lisa was in-house counsel at NEC America, Inc. and NEC USA, Inc. from 1987-2003. During that time, she developed numerous in-house training and compliance programs, and served for many years as Editor of the Advisor, a monthly legal newsletter. Lisa was also active in the legal education field at the Suffolk Academy of Law, having served as an Officer from 2000 through 2004.

For LRSolutions, Ms. Pomerantz developed both the Conflicts of Interest and Protecting Confidential Information/Document Retention modules, two areas in which she has a great deal of expertise. She also works with attorneys in other areas of law to develop scenario-based modules for LRSolutions' other online compliance courses.

During her career at NEC, Ms. Pomerantz also dealt with Marketing and Advertising Law issues, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Distribution and Franchising Law. She also has significant experience in the Intellectual Property and Antitrust areas, and served for two years as Co-Chair of the Suffolk County Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee. Lisa received Awards of Recognition from the Suffolk County Bar Association for her contributions to continuing legal education and as IP Committee chair.

Before joining NEC, Lisa was a law clerk in the federal district court in Baltimore, and a litigation associate at two Boston law firms. Lisa graduated from Boston University Law School in 1979, where she was a member of the Boston University Law Review. She graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard University, cum laude in 1976.