Jill H. Teitel practices in the areas of commercial litigation, arbitration, secured transactions, and estate planning and related litigation. She is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts of New York, New Jersey and Colorado. She is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1996) and Binghamton University (B.A. Political Science and East Asian Studies, 1992). Jill actively participates on the Arbitration and the International Commercial Dispute Resolution committees at the City Bar of New York. She volunteers as an arbitrator for the New York City Civil Court in Kings County and assists battered women for the Brooklyn Bar Association, Volunteer Lawyers Project. Ms. Teitel is the co-author of the chapter entitled "United States Secured Transactions Law" for International Secured Transactions published by The Center for International Legal Studies, located in Salzburg, Austria. She has lectured in the areas of contracts, business organizations, secured transactions, arbitration, electronic discovery and domestic violence issues in the United States, Argentina and Austria. Ms. Teitel is proficient in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Japanese. She has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the not-for-profit organization, Women's eNews, an internet newspaper covering global issues regarding women reaching four million readers each month. She also has been appointed as an Associate Mediator at the Centro Interdisciplinario el Manejo de Conflictos AC, an organiztion based in Mexico City for mediating conflicts. |