• Mediation 
• Civil litigation
• FTC/DOJ merger review

Education:

• Columbia Law School, J.D., 2003
• Georgetown University, B.A., English, 1997

Media Contact:

• Media Relations, (212) 854-2650.

 Detailed Biography:

Alexandra Carter, a former associate attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and a mediator, is an associate clinical professor, teaching the Law School's Mediation Clinic with professor Carol B. Liebman.

Carter, who won the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for clinical advocacy while a student at Columbia Law School, has become a strong advocate of mediation as a valuable tool for many kinds of legal challenges. Through Safe Horizon, a New York-based non-profit that specializes in mediation, Carter has served as a mediator. She has also supervised student mediations in court-related programs at New York City Civil Court and Harlem Small Claims Court.

She has been at Cravath, Swaine & Moore since 2004, where she has served on a team defending against a multi-billion dollar securities class-action lawsuit related to Enron. She has also served as the senior antitrust associate on several multi-billion dollar mergers and worked on cases involving copyright law.

Carter majored in English and minored in Mandarin Chinese at Georgetown University, earning her B.A. in 1997. She spent 1997-98 in Taiwan on a Fulbright Scholarship, where she researched Taiwan's contemporary literature to assess the political tensions at the time between those who wanted the island to assert independence and those who favored reunification with the Republic of China.

She worked as a private equity analyst with Goldman Sachs in New York from 1998 to 2000, then enrolled at Columbia Law School, where she took the mediation clinic, and later worked as a teaching assistant in the clinic under Professor Liebman. Carter also was articles editor for the Journal of Transnational Law.

While at Columbia Law School Carter also won the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for best oral argument in the 2002 Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition. Carter earned her J.D. in 2003, then clerked for the Hon. Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston before joining Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Recent Publications:

• "Hey, That's My Copyright:  Exploring the Boundaries of the Work-for-Hire Doctrine," New York Law Journal, April 2007
• Forthcoming in 2008:  Authoring several chapters, entitled "Basics of Mediation - A Primer on the Mediation Process"; "Choosing a Mediator:  Mediator Qualification and Training"; and "The Attorney's Role in Mediation"; as part of Mediation for Estate Planners: Estate Planning, Probate, Guardianships and Bioethics, edited by Susan N. Gary