As an accomplished attorney, Stacey offers almost 20 years of experience in legal/compliance arena, negotiations, and mediation/arbitration. Throughout her career, she has excelled in providing clients with dedicated representation, negotiations, and settlements. Stacey is highly skilled in identifying core legal issues behind complex legal matters and crafting understandable and persuasive arguments. Today, Stacey’s area of expertise includes real estate, family law, and bankruptcy. 

Her career started off with handling bankruptcy filings through the U.S. Trustees Program. She shifted to the Legal Compliance arena, and worked on major regulatory audits in the financial industry. With her desire to get back to her public interest roots, Stacey moved into the non-profit sector working with religious organizations to help improve the socio-economic conditions in under served communities. In that capacity, she motivated internal and external stakeholders and developed strategic methods to meet community needs, which included but was not limited to capacity building, operational and management assistance. 

Stacey successfully engages in relationship building by communicating with internal stakeholders and managing staff including volunteers while supporting and leading the board of directors towards fulfilling the organization’s mission. 

Stacey delivers strong legal advocacy by effectively communicating intricate legal matters to laypeople, overseeing witness preparation, and eliciting cohesive testimony during trial, and completing detailed and precise documentation of research, motion, and files. 

She has provided legal counseling services almost exclusively to nonprofit faith-based organizations, small businesses, self-employed, unemployed, and underemployed in Bankruptcy, Family, Foreclosure, Landlord/Tenant matters and Real Estate transactions. She focuses on developing and implementing compliance policies and procedures for general business compliance. She also develops and implements rollout compliance training. Stacey has managed regulatory inquiries, market conduct exams and surveys. She also manages books of business for entertainment industry clients (live performances, talent acquisition/coordination, clearances, and general oversight of production matters) and acts as a legal consultant. 

As a Department Chair of a Business Management and Advanced Paralegal Studies program at a career college, she exercises oversight of all instructional and related activities for the programs offered by the department, with responsibility for retention, budgets, and educational/operational outcomes. 

Stacey earned her J.D. from CUNY School of law, an MPA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and completed an LL.M. in Trial Advocacy at Temple University. She is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey as well as several federal courts.

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