Douglas Hand, fashion lawyer and founding partner at HBA, says "Understanding the industry helps you contextualise legal issues and reach the best result for your client. There are few sectors of the economy that offer as wide and interesting a range of career opportunities as fashion. Role Call highlights some of the industry’s most interesting jobs and the talented people who do them. For more information about fashion industry roles like this and others
Douglas Hand is a fashion lawyer and founding member of the law firm Hand Baldachin Amburgey LLP (HBA) which represents fashion and lifestyle companies such as Rag & Bone, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Rodarte, Anna Sui, Public School and Mansur Gavriel. A Southern Californian native, Hand attained his JD from NYU School of Law and his MBA from NYU Stern School of Business Administration. In 1997, He began his legal career in the New York and Paris offices of multi-national firm Shearman & Sterling, representing clients in public transactions. In 2004, Hand and his two partners, Alan Baldachin and David Amburgey, launched HBA. He sits on the business advisory committee of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), the advisory board of the Fashion Law Institute of Fordham Law School and the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Couture Council.
