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Michele is an attorney in retired status licensed in 

New York, New Jersey, and Oregon.

Over the past 20 plus years, her legal work has concentrated on real estate, business law, trusts and estates.  

Most recently Michele worked as a civil law arbitrator for the courts of Oregon, before retiring to Florida.  

In brief, Michele attended Syracuse University where she achieved dual degrees in Education and Performance Honors in Music.  

Her masters work was in Theater.

Living in Manhattan, she attended New York Law School, and began her legal career at the international law firm, Fried Frank in their corporate restructuring department.  

She went on to provide legal counsel for Manhattan's largest privately owned real estate firm, and oversaw as Sales Director, the office of over 250 sales agents supervising large real estate developments in Manhattan.  

Among her work, she owned real estate companies in Manhattan and offered counsel as a member of the Real Estate Board of New York.  

She served as a mediator for attorney client disputes for the First Department, as well as volunteering as a commercial claims arbitrator for the Civil Court of New York.