Profile of Attorney Mark L. Lasser
Mark L. Lasser, managing attorney of the Lasser Law Office, has over twenty years of legal and international development experience.
Mark initially worked for large law firms in the Bay Area (including Wilson Sonsini and McCutchen Doyle), and represented large and sophisticated clients such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Chase, and Kodak.
His experience includes civil litigation (including appeals) for both defendants and plaintiffs (including breach of contract, antitrust, unfair competition, and trademark disputes), class actions, and business counseling (including licensing, intellectual property, pricing, employment and antitrust issues) and business startup assistance. Mark has also served as in-house counsel for Tetra Tech DPK.
Mark’s international development experience includes managing an INL/ State Department criminal justice reform project in Macedonia (served as the primary legal advisor at US Embassy Skopje), teaching at law schools in Albania and Macedonia, and managing and implementing USAID contracts in Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic related to rule of law or government transparency/ anti-corruption projects. He also served as the Chief of the Legal Monitoring Section of the OSCE Mission to Kosovo. Mark has also monitored elections for ODIHR in Albania, Macedonia, and the Ukraine. Most recently, he has served as the Monitoring Team Reporting and Political Analysis Coordinator for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine.
Mark received his JD from Northwestern University School of Law, BA from Duke University, and was a visiting student at Brasenose College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a former Fulbright research and teaching scholar to Albania. Mark is admitted to practice law in California and Washington, D.C. Mark currently serves as Chair of the International Human Rights Section of the San Francisco Bar Association. He served as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Fulbright Association of Northern California and Executive Director of the Sierra Rule of Law Center. He received the 25th Reunion Alumnus Achievement Award at Moses Brown School. Mark's interests include skiing, tennis and travel.