The legal writing I most want employers, professors, and colleagues to read, grouped by practice area. Each piece has the same goal: explain the law accurately, in plain language.
Writing sample
Nonprofit and charities law
The practice area of my summer 2026 internship in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Non-Profit Organizations / Public Charities Division.
Who Oversees Nonprofits? State Attorneys General, PlainlyWhy day-to-day charity oversight belongs to state attorneys general: parens patriae, fiduciary enforcement, and the design choice behind most of nonprofit law.
How to Read a Form 990, PlainlyWhere a nonprofit’s real finances live: program spending, executive pay, governance answers, and the red flags donors miss.
Cy Pres: What Happens to a Charitable Gift When Its Purpose DiesHow courts redirect a charitable gift when its original purpose becomes impossible.
Nonprofit Board Fiduciary Duties, PlainlyWhat care, loyalty, and obedience actually require of a board, and how well-meaning boards get in trouble.
All nonprofit law posts
Energy and utility regulation
All energy and environmental law posts
International and cross-border
Written from the operator’s side of the table: I co-founded companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong and helped open a Hong Kong conglomerate’s first North American office.
Cross-Border M&A: What Changes, PlainlyHow a foreign buyer or target changes due diligence, deal approvals, CFIUS review, and closing mechanics.
CFIUS, Plainly: The Committee That Can Block a Cross-Border DealHow the United States reviews foreign investment, who has to file, and what happens next.
Doing Business in China: Five Legal Basics US Founders Get WrongCompany chops, contracts, NNN agreements, entity choice, and IP, from someone who worked there.
Does GDPR Apply to US Companies? PlainlyWhen EU privacy law reaches American businesses, and what compliance actually requires.
All business law posts
Business transactions
Due Diligence, Plainly: What Lawyers Actually Check Before a DealWhat lawyers check, why deals die in diligence, and what founders get wrong.
The Boilerplate Founders Skip, PlainlyIndemnification, limits of liability, assignment, choice of law, and the back-page clauses that decide disputes.
LLC vs Corporation: Which Entity, PlainlyLiability, taxes, ownership, and investors, plus the questions to ask before choosing an entity.
Benefit Corporations, Plainly: When a Company’s Purpose Is Part of Its CharterHow mission-locked companies work, what their directors owe, and how a benefit corporation differs from a B Corp.
All business law posts
Health, elder, and estates law
All estate and elder law posts · All health law posts
Government and public interest
What Legal Aid Funding Sources Cost an OrganizationHow LSC, IOLTA, state money, and philanthropy fund civil legal aid, and why each source limits the work an office can do.
Public Health Powers, Plainly: Where Quarantine Authority Actually Comes FromState police power, quarantine authority, and the limited federal role in health orders.
Green Card Categories, Explained PlainlyFamily-based and employment-based categories, priority dates, and why wait times differ so much.
Reflection: Alternative Spring Break with the Sugar Law CenterWhat a week of pro bono work in Detroit taught me about economic justice and community lawyering.
All public interest posts
Unfamiliar terms in any of these pieces are defined in the plain-language legal glossary. For who I am and what I am working toward, see About and Experience. Browse everything: all posts or posts by topic.