Dan Schneider, Esq.
Executive Director & Mutual Mentor
Dan Schneider is a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Schneider, Pfahl & Rahme, LLP. He has been practicing entertainment, corporate, new media, intellectual property (copyrights and trademarks) and real property law for more than 27 years in Manhattan and Woodstock, N.Y. A graduate of Vassar College (AB, 1979, Evans Fellow in Law) and Emory Law School (JD, 1982, Emory Scholar), he is admitted to the New York and Georgia bars, as well as to the U.S. District Court (Southern District, N.Y.). Mr. Schneider has been AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell (www.schneiderpfahl.com). A member of numerous non-profit Boards, including The America The Beautiful Fund, The Giulio Gari Foundation, The Florence Belsky Charitable Foundation and the Hudson Valley Technology and Commerce, Dan is the founder of www.woodstockmediation.com as well as First Mondays (www.firstmondays.com), a quarterly networking group, first founded in 2002 to help New Yorkers help themselves during difficult times. Dan’s successful non-profit experiences include being Project Manager for a joint NEA Arts in Education Grant to the Woodstock Day School and Woodstock Youth Theatre, which resulted in the creation of three (3) new collaborative works which were publicly performed in Ulster County, New York. He is also helping to organize a new non-profit : “I Can Still do That” to help put American back to work, which he will try to make a national foundation.
Charlotte W. Pfahl, Esq.
President & Mutual Mentor
Charlotte W. Pfahl received a B.A. cum laude from University of Denver in 1973 and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1978. She also attended Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., the N.Y.U. School of Law, LLM. in Taxation, and the World Trade Institute.
Ms. Pfahl specializes in private client matters (wills, trusts, family limited partnerships) and real estate law. She represents foreign and domestic clients – including individuals, trusts, partnerships and corporations in a number of jurisdictions – on a broad range of domestic and transnational business transactions, including organization of domestic and off-shore entities and trusts, acquisitions of business interests and property, buy-outs and financing, as well as real estate matters, commercial and residential acquisitions, and leasing. Her real estate-related clients include cooperative corporations, developers, foreign banking institutions, and private investors.
Ms. Pfahl is admitted to practice in the States of New York and Florida and to the Bars of the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Claims, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a member of the Financial Women’s Association and The International Alliance.
Jacob Lazarowitz
Chief Communications Officer & Mutual Mentor
Jacob (Jake) Lazarowitz graduated from William Paterson University in the Spring of 2008 with a B.A. in English. Jake has been steadfast in his career pursuit having freelanced in sports marketing, administrative and previous non-profit positions. Jake’s background in public relations runs nearly three years as he now continues with an ambitious effort handling the communications for “I Can Still do That”. Coming from a creative family of musicians, Jake is an avid reader and writer; and while not seeking his place in society, enjoys working on a number of creative projects in film, music and graphic novels. Currently a rambling man, Jake lives in and out of New York City. He is always happy to explain to whomever will listen.
Jillian Markowitz
Assistant Director & Mutual Mentor
Jillian (Jill) Markowitz is a 2007 graduate of the prestigious Gallatin School of Independent Studies at New York University. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, Ms. Markowitz created an interdisciplinary major combining business and film studies. This unique focus lead her to accept a full scholarship to Hofstra Law School where she is currently in her third and final year. Her professional resume includes credit as a producer for the unreleased film, Elise. She plans to use her education and skills as a lawyer producer.