Anthony Clemenza

Anthony Clemenza has practiced law in New York for nearly twenty years. He is the managing partner of The Clemenza Law Group and the general counsel of more than twenty operating and philanthropic companies across eight sectors.

That second seat is what makes the first one different. Across those companies he has done exactly what a general counsel does — entity architecture, commercial and vendor agreements, intellectual property, employment, governance, and risk — while also sitting in the principal's chair when the invoice came due. He has negotiated the technology stack from the buyer's side, built the intake, approval, escalation, and board-record systems those companies run on, and decided in each case what stayed in-house and what went to outside counsel. Most lawyers argue one side of that table. He has had to win both.

The three tracks in this program are not marketing segments — they are three things he runs. He founded The Legacy Foundation while in law school and has chaired its 501(c)(3) board for twenty years, and founded Meridian Philanthropic to serve grantmakers. He has been a licensed New York real estate broker since 2010 and board president of an 89-residence self-managed Florida cooperative since 2016. Entertainment and media is one of the firm's three core practice areas, backed by founded ventures in talent management and the performing arts.

He read comparative constitutional law at the University of Vienna School of Law in a course taught by U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., took his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University's Maurice A. Deane School of Law as Business Editor of the Hofstra Law Review, and holds a B.B.A. in finance and marketing from Loyola University Maryland. He also ships production software and AI systems — so when the question is AI governance, the answer comes from someone who has built the pipeline, not just read about it.