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Tina L. Stark has lectured at over 375 programs on law and business issues at programs in the United States, Canada, England, Italy, China, and Poland. Tina’s teaching emphasizes the relationship between law and business, and draws upon her experience both as a corporate lawyer at Chadbourne & Parke LLP and as a banker at Irving Trust Company. While at Chadbourne, Tina had a broad-based transactional practice, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and financings. Currently, she is a Professor in the Practice of Law at Emory University School of Law and the Executive Director of the school’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice. She was previously an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School where she taught a seminar on drafting commercial agreements, a simulation course on transactional skills, and a course on business. Tina is the editor-in-chief and co-author of Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate, publisher, American Lawyer Media (2003). Her contract drafting textbook, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do, was published in June 2007, and her related treatise, A Handbook on Drafting Contracts, is forthcoming. Tina delivers a number of programs every year in conjunction with Seminar Partners, including Advanced Contract Drafting, Adding Value to the Deal, and What Every Litigator Should Know About an Acquisition Agreement.