People

Mary Jeka
Senior Vice President for University Relations and General Counsel

Akiyo Fujii
Deputy General Counsel for Business Affairs

Areas of practice:

• • Contracts
  • Real Estate
  • Construction Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Gifts
  • Trusts
  • Corporate Governance
  • HIPAA Compliance

Lili Palacios-Baldwin
Deputy General Counsel for Labor, Employment and Litigation

Areas of practice:

• • Litigation
  • Labor Relations
  • Employment Law
  • Faculty Affairs
  • Student Affairs
  • Title IX
  • Research Compliance
  • Admissions
  • Athletics

Sandra S. Congdon
Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property

Areas of practice:

• • Tufts University’s patent portfolio

Dana Fleming
Associate General Counsel

Areas of practice:

• • Litigation
  • Labor Relations
  • Employment Law
  • Faculty Affairs
  • Student Affairs
  • Title IX
  • FERPA

Abra Francois
Associate General Counsel

Areas of practice:

• • Veterinary matters
  • Employment law
  • Labor law
  • Litigation
  • Title IX
  • Student Matters
  • Athletics

Shawna Yen
Associate General Counsel

Areas of practice:

• • Compliance
  • Litigation
  • Internal investigations
  • Ethics
  • Conflicts of Interest
  • Privacy

Irina Oberman Khagi
Assistant General Counsel

Areas of practice:

• • Business transactions
  • Intellectual property transfer and management
  • Research materials and data transfer
  • Research collaborations

Lise Hansen
Project Manager

Jennifer Cloutier
Senior Paralegal

Sheila Williams
Administrative/Paralegal Assistant