Lisa D
Editor #57944
Joined 5/4/2021
3 Star Rating
3,530 Projects
Lisa has a BA in English from Cornell University and over fifteen years of substantive editing experience. She has proofreading, line editing, copy editing, and structural editing of everything from business descriptions, care center blurbs, newspaper articles, SME guides to forming corporations in various states, and blog posts to academic papers, theses, and legal treatises.
Twitter Post
Facebook Post
Legal
Article
Newsletter Content
Other
CBD/Cannabis
Book
eBook
Blog Post

Specialties

Lisa has extensive legal and literary editing experience. She has over fifteen yeas of legal editing experience on everything from blog posts to treatises. She has edited novels and nonfiction on a variety of topics. She is highly knowledgeable about the art, media, publishing, entertainment, food, wine, fashion, cannabis and beauty industries.

Interests

Passionate and knowledgeable about the following:
Literature
Language
Fine Art
Trademarks
Wine
Gardens
Fashion
Film
Photography
Food
Beauty
Cats
Soap Operas
Shopping
Cannabis
Publishing
Media

Education

Cornell University

BA Summa Cum Laude and With Distinction; Phi Beta Kappa; Class of 1916 Prize for Senior Honors Thesis

Columbia University School of Law

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

Legal

1,000 Projects Completed

Lisa has fifteen years of legal editing experience. She has edited case briefs for a legal educational website, SME guides to forming corporations and nonprofits in various states, blog posts, daily articles published online and in newsletters, treatises published in print, on LexisNexis, and as e-books. Substantive areas of law include intellectual property, media and entertainment, cannabis, cybersecurity, international law, white collar law, competition law, mergers and acquisitions, family law, and federal tax.

CBD/Cannabis

30 Projects Completed

Lisa vets, reviews, sources, copy edits, and fact checks legal articles on all aspects of cannabis law. This can include anything from tax, state law, trademark, copyright, and patent law, bankruptcy, litigation, and mergers and acquisitions. The articles are published daily and appear in newsletters for an audience of corporate law and business professionals.

Article

1,000 Projects Completed

Three years of editing legal articles.

Newsletter Content

1,000 Projects Completed

Three years of editing for daily newsletters.

Other

200 Projects Completed

Two years of editing business listings in a directory.

Twitter Post

100 Projects Completed

Several years of editing Tweets.

Facebook Post

100 Projects Completed

Several years of editing Facebook posts.

Blog Post

40 Projects Completed

Two years of editing blog posts.

Book

30 Projects Completed

10 years of editing a library of over 30 legal treatises; other freelance projects on fiction and nonfiction books.

eBook

30 Projects Completed

Ten years of editing legal treatises also published as ebooks.

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