About

Carolyn teaches and guest lectures on various business law topics.  She spent almost a decade as a Lecturer at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, teaching The Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship, a primer on using key legal tools and basic building blocks to launch a successful start-up that maximizes value and mitigates risk.  She also created and taught an online course on the topic of Business and Legal Tools  for Digital Health Entrepreneurship at Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Digital Health and Data Science, focusing on the telehealth, mobile health and artificial intelligence space.   

Carolyn serves as the CEO of her boutique law firm.  Our clients love our ability to provide a unique blend of personalized service with the full complement of big firm experience at an accessible price point.  Our law firm alliances allow us to go the extra mile to provide the cutting edge advice that our clients deserve.

Carolyn speaks French, Arabic, Hebrew and German, and the firm’s practice includes French, Israeli and Chinese clients.   Carolyn sits on the Board of the Philadelphia Israel Chamber of Commerce (PICC) and served as one of its delegates on a mission to Israel with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She has travelled to China and Hong Kong in the Healthcare space and has lectured in multiple venues on doing business in the U.S.   

Carolyn's firm is certified as a Woman Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) and a Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) for supplier diversity purposes. The firm also advises clients on the mechanics of certification, and Carolyn serves as a WBEC-East Envoy.

Carolyn is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, as well as their federal courts.  The firm’s law firm alliances provide it with the ability to fully service its clients' needs across the U.S. and abroad.

Carolyn has an AV peer Rating from Martindale Hubble, has been voted a Philadelphia Super Lawyer and received the Chancellor’s Award from the Volunteer for the Indigent Program. She is on the Honor Roll of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania for saving homes from foreclosure in Philadelphia’s Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program. Click here to view a video featuring Carolyn with the Hon. Annette Rizzo. 

Carolyn serves as an Arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, hearing consumer disputes.  With the onset of COVID-19, Carolyn has mediated and settled cases for the Arbitration Center.  In addition, she has helped individuals save their homes through Philadelphia’s Mortgage Foreclosure Conciliation Program.  Please click here to view a video featuring Carolyn in action. 

Carolyn has hosted weekly Office Hours for Venture Cafe Philly.

In addition, she has engaged in numerous pro bono activities including working with Philadelphia’s Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project (CBAP) to provide representation to consumer debtors filing for bankruptcy protection, as well as assisting homeowners to avoid foreclosure or sheriff’s sale via Philadelphia’s Mortgage Foreclosure Conciliation Program.

Carolyn enjoys serving her community partners and especially mentoring and advocating for women in professional, personal and ritual capacities.  She sits on the Executive Boards of Tribe 12 and JOFA and on the Board of Lechu Neranena.  For Tribe 12, Carolyn volunteers as an Expert in Residence and mentor for the Fellowship incubator program.  For JOFA, Carolyn also sits on its Journal Editorial Board.  

Carolyn received her Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law, where she served on the Editorial Board of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.   She also earned a Master of Arts degree in Arabic Language and Literature from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and was awarded a fellowship in the Department of Middle East Languages and Cultures.  Carolyn received her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Barnard College where she majored in English.  She now serves as a BAAR admissions representative in the Philadelphia region.

In the start-up space, the firm’s clients include early stage and emerging companies, their owners, talent, and consultants.  In the employment, debtor-creditor and bankruptcy spaces, we represent all stakeholders, including employer, employee, creditor or debtor.

Our institutional clients have included U.S. Affiliates of French, Chinese and Israeli companies, the City of Philadelphia, AmerisourceBergen, Hershey, Fiserv, Barneys, Phoenix Information Systems, the Equity Security Holders Committee of Columbia Gas, the Bondholders Committee of Federated Department Stores, DBSI Diversified Realty REIT and the Trustee of Cajun Electric.

The firm’s matters have involved numerous industries and professional practice areas, including Cannabis, Cryptocurrency, Investor Visas, Digital Health, Biotech, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Mental Health, Social Sciences, Telecom, Environmental, Gaming, Entertainment, Tourism, Airline, Municipal Taxes, Equipment Leasing, Insurance, Grocery, Retail, Financial Services, Construction, Flooring, Architecture, Real Estate and Education. 

Carolyn has developed a niche in the digital health space, including the regulation of AI.  She has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Digital Health and Data Science, drafting and teaching an online course geared to working professionals titled Business and Legal Tools  for Digital Health Entrepreneurship, a primer on using key legal tools and basic building blocks to launch a successful start-up that maximizes value and mitigates risk with a focus on the telehealth, mobile health and artificial intelligence space.