Nina L. Kaufman is an award-winning business attorney, author and speaker. For more than 15 years, she has successfully navigated thousands of small businesses through the legal hurdles they face in starting and running their companies. Under her AskTheBusinessLawyer.com brand, Nina provides legal information products to entrepreneurs, including an extensive free library of her small business legal articles at GreatBusinessLawTips.com. To join her ezine, Lex Appeal, and get a free copy of her special report, Top 10 Legal Pitfalls, visit GreatBusinessLawTips.com.
A prolific writer, columnist and blogger, Nina is a media resource and frequent contributor to the E-Myth Insider newsletter, Enterprising Women magazine and the e-magazine WomenandBiz.com, in addition to serving on Forbes.com’s Ask the Expert panel. Her articles have also appeared in the American Bar Association’s GP/Solo magazine and The New York Enterprise Report. She publishes her own blog, BusinessPartnershipCentral.com. Nina also writes the Business Law Advisor column for WomenEntrepreneur.com
With skills honed from stand-up comedy, Nina is a sought-after professional speaker. She has given seminars, workshops, teleclasses and presentations for numerous organizations in the New York City area, with hot topics that include protecting your business on the internet, building business partnerships and collaborative alliances that work, and training clients to pay on time. She has been a featured panelist at the BlogHer Business and Women’s Congress annual conferences, speaking on the subject of legal issues in social media. Nina also has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, SmallBusinessComputing.com, PINK magazine, New York Law Journal, the American Bar Association Journal and Entrepreneur magazine, and she has appeared on Fox Channel 5’s Good Day NY program.
Nina received her bachelor’s degree cum laude from Wellesley College, her master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her law degree from Boston University School of Law. In addition to her love of international travel, photography and spa days, she is an active member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City, where she has volunteered at its homeless shelter for more than a decade.





