Mr. Raffaelli is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and the University of Cambridge and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, 1st Department, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is in private practice concentrating in Federal Litigation, Real Estate law and transactional matters, and management of real property. He is also a arbitrator in civil court proceedings in New York City. Mr. Raffaelli is also an instructor in the innovative "Proyecto Accesso" program in the McGill Center at the California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, where he frequently teaches programs designed to train foreign lawyers in judicial reform, the Rule of Law and Common Law trial techniques in developing nations in Latin America.