Our Team

 
 
 
 
 

Adriana Kertzer — Principal

Adriana is a Brazilian-American attorney, born and raised in São Paulo. Adriana has a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, a B.A. from Brown University in Judaic Studies and International Relations, and an M.A. from Parsons The New School for Design. She began her legal career as a corporate associate on Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Latin American capital markets team. Adriana has since drawn on her love of contracts as an entrepreneur in the fields of contemporary culture, real estate and cannabis, as well as in her role as Senior Advisor to the Senior Deputy Chairman at the National Endowment for the Arts under President Obama. Adriana is on the board of Doctors for Drug Policy Reform, a member of the Psychedelic Bar Association, New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Drugs and the Law, and New York State Bar Association. She is the author of the book Favelization: The Imaginary Brazil in Contemporary Film, Fashion and Design, originally published by the Cooper Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian Institution). She is passionate about Jewish psychedelic culture and founded JewWhoTokes, an Instagram account that explores relationships with cannabis and psychedelics in the Jewish community. LinkedIn

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Brown University

Bar Admission: New York

Of Counsel

Brad Bartlett

Brad Bartlett is a Colorado-based litigator, corporate attorney, and policy advisor with experience in the areas of environmental and American Indian law as well as the business and medical legal arenas. Brad also provides executive level mediation services and is a lecturer at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. LinkedIn

J.D., University of Colorado
B.A., Georgia State University

Bar Admissions: Colorado & Georgia

Deborah Linden Saly

Deborah Linden Saly is a California based attorney experienced in healthcare, emerging technology, and corporate law. She is a board member of the Cancer Research Collaboration and has completed the Corporate Women’s Leadership Program at Harvard Business School. LinkedIn

J.D., Loyola Law School
B.A., University of California Santa Barbara

Bar Admission: California

Dan Zavodnick

Dan is a New York-based attorney specialized in biotechnology and pharmaceutical law. He has worked as in-house counsel for large companies including Allergan and Bayer. LinkedIn

J.D., Fordham University
B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Bar Admission: New York