Biography
Rafi Stern is the Staff Attorney responsible for Lawyers Alliance's Economic Opportunity program area, assisting community development and nonprofits that are providing investment capital and credit services, pursuing earned revenue activities, stimulating and revitalizing commercial activity, and sponsoring job training and job placement programs in New York City. Prior to joining Lawyers Alliance in 2019, Mr. Stern was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and a law clerk to the Honorable Margaret Cangilos-Ruiz in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York. Before law school, he worked as program officer at the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation and as an Americorps member at Phipps Community Development Corporation. Mr. Stern graduated from Brown University in 2010 and cum laude from Cornell Law School in 2017.