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Charles Fox is the founder of Fox Professional Development LLC. He has twenty-two years of experience as a lawyer in complex debt and restructuring transactions, the last fourteen as a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Mr. Fox played an important role in professional development while at Skadden, including conducting a 25-hour training program for junior banking associates, and devoting significant time to the firm's annual training retreat for new lawyers. He was a member of Skadden's associate training committee from 1999 through 2005.
He is the author of Working with Contracts - What Law School Doesn't Teach You, written in response to requests from associates at his contract drafting seminars.
Mr. Fox received his B.A. in English literature from Queens College in 1980, and his law degree from Rutgers Law School in 1983, where he was the managing editor of the Rutgers Law Review.
He is married to Lucy, and has two children, Christina, 23 and Matthew, 19. He is an avid hiker and golfer.
Training and Professional Development Experience
Since starting FPD in 2005, Charles Fox has provided training programs to more than 20 clients in locations across the country and in Canada, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Hartford, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Rochester, San Diego, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.
He was a speaker at "Teaching Contract Drafting," a conference at Northwestern University School of Law held on July 20 and 21, 2005.
He was a speaker on a panel discussing "Real Writing for Real Lawyers: Training Business Lawyers to Draft" at the American Bar Association annual meeting in Honolulu on August 4, 2006.
He hosted a Practising Law Institute training program, "What Junior Deal Lawyers Need to Know About Guarantees", on September 28, 2006.
His book and training programs were featured in the article "The New Classroom: Learning How to Draft Contracts in the Real World" in Business Law Today, September/October 2006.
He is conducting a seminar on real-world contract skills for first-year law students at Yale Law School on December 5, 2006.
