Sandy graduated from Harvard Law School. She was a litigation
associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
for six years and thereafter was a securities litigator at Tenzer
Greenblatt. Sandy
moved in-house to be an Associate General Counsel handling securities
litigation at PaineWebber (now UBS Financial Services) in 1997. In
November 2001, she became Senior Vice President and Senior Associate
General Counsel in its Employment Law Unit and assisted in managing
that unit's litigation case load. She serves
on the Securities Arbitration Committee of the American Bar Association and
formerly sat as one of the Industry Members to the Financial Institution
Regulatory Association National Arbitration and Mediation Committee. Sandy
has tried numerous complex arbitrations involving actual losses of millions
of dollars, as well as many employment arbitrations. She has represented a
number of broker/dealers in Federal Courts across the country and in adversarial
proceeding in Bankruptcy Court in securities and employment related matters.
She has also extensive experience representing clearing brokers. She
has been an advocate in many complex mediations. She has also handled
a variety of complex general litigation matters. Sandy also chaired
the Diversity Committee for UBS Financial Services' Legal department where
she developed and implemented its MCCA award winning program. She has written
and lectured widely on securities and ethics issues. She also has been involved
in developing compliance programs in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.