Rachel Rodgers, Owner/Attorney

Recently featured in Entrepreneur Magazine and MSNBC.com, Rachel Rodgers is the principal attorney with Rachel Rodgers Law Office. Rachel is passionate about helping young and new business owners who have the courage to create their own jobs. Rachel’s clients have companies in the auto, agriculture, film, food, non-profit, professional services and technology industries. Rachel also utilizes alternative dispute resolution to resolve business disputes in a timely and cost-effective way.

Prior to forming her law practice, Rachel had various professional experiences in both the private law and public law sectors, where she handled corporate, criminal, family, real estate and small business matters. Rachel has developed expertise in various areas of alternative dispute resolution including negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Rachel has held judicial clerkships with both New York and New Jersey judges and has worked for federal district court handling cases referred to mediation in the alternative dispute resolution office. Prior to law school, Rachel worked for non-profits in New York, at a premier lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. and on Capitol Hill in the Senate office of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Rachel comes from a family of entrepreneurs which is why she is passionate about helping people start and grow their own businesses. Due to growing up in the melting pot of New York City, Rachel enjoys learning about other parts of the world. She has traveled to Barbados, Ecuador, France, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Thailand and the United Kingdom to do volunteer work, to study and, yes, sometimes to just be a tourist. Rachel enjoys hanging out in bookstores, blogging (check out her blog here), cooking, drinking East African coffee and watching the Jets play.

Professional Associations

• New York County Lawyers Association
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• San Luis Obispo County Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Education

• Juris Doctor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
• Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
• Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Bethany College, Scotts Valley, CA

Bar Admissions

• New York
• New Jersey

Publications

• Adventures of a Gen Y Solo Practitioner - Solo Practice University, Columnist
• YFS Magazine, Columnist
• My Lawyer’s Name is Rachel, Blog
• Gen Y J.D., Blog
• Under 30 CEO, Contributor
• The Cash Flow, Contributor

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