It’s been a busy year for Rana Dershowitz, general counsel for the United States Olympic Committee. In April she gave birth to her second child, and in July and August the 2012 Summer Olympic Games were held in London. In preparation for the Games, Dershowitz oversaw everything from athletes’ rights to intellectual property issues, as well as the usual legal work of one of America’s highest-profile sports organizations.
Dershowitz, a graduate of Harvard Law School, began her career in private practice at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, then was an associate at New Yorkbased entertainment firm Grubman Indursky & Schindler. Her first in-house gig was at Madison Square Garden Inc., where she handled both legal and business matters for athletic teams including the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers, and the New York Liberty, as well as Madison Square Garden Network and Fox Sports Net New York, now known as MSG Plus.
