Ed practices in the areas of advertising, promotion, sweepstakes, intellectual property, internet and trade regulation law, including charitable promotions, protection and licensing of trademarks and copyrights worldwide, electronic commerce, and antitrust law.  In 2008, he joined Greenberg Traurig’s Las Vegas office after 20 years practicing in Connecticut.

A trusted advisor to many national advertisers and not-for-profit organizations in the field of cause-related marketing, Ed is a frequent speaker at many national seminars and conferences on advertising and promotion law topics, including charitable promotions, sweepstakes, premium production, coupon and rebate offers.  He is a co-author of the legal chapter in the Sales Promotion Handbook (Dartnell, 8th Ed. 1994).  He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Promotion Marketing Association.  From 1998-2001 he served as chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.

Ed graduated from Yale University (summa cum laude and phi beta kappa) in 1982, and from Harvard Law School (cum laude) in 1987.  He also studied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, as a Rotary International Foundation Scholarship Fellow.  He served as a law clerk for Associate Justice Ruth I. Abrams of the Massachusetts Judicial Court.  He is an Associate Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University, and worked for many years as a part-time musician (trombone) playing everything from grand opera to rhythm and blues.