Law Office of Jonathan S. Sales

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Jonathan S. Sales

Managing Attorney

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Jonathan S. Sales is an attorney with over 34 years of experience serving clients throughout Massachusetts. Attorney Sales earned his J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, holds a Doctoral Degree in Management from Pace University (where he received the Lubin School of Business Doctoral Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year), and an MBA with Honors from Suffolk University and a B.A. in Political Science from Bates College, where he graduated as a Dana Scholar.

In addition to his legal practice, Attorney Sales serves as a Professor of Management, teaching courses in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Negotiation, and Business Law at Roger Williams University. He formerly also taught at Clark University and Bentley University. Attorney Sales' scholarly work has been published in numerous prestigious law reviews, including the Marquette Law Review, Georgetown American Criminal Law Review, and Oregon Law Review.

Attorney Sales' legal experience includes, without limitation, appeals, litigation, compliance, administrative and regulatory law, and interdisciplinary legal analysis. This blend of litigation experience, advanced academic research, and environmental policy knowledge enables him to approach client matters with both practical, strategic insight and legal expertise.

Education

Pace University, Lubin School of Business, NYC, NY

  • –Lubin School of Business Outstanding Student of the Year Award

Suffolk University, Sawyer Business School, Boston, MA

Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA

Bates College, Lewiston, ME

Bar Admissions

  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts — Admitted 1991
  • District of Massachusetts — Admitted 1992
  • First Circuit — Admitted 1992
  • Ninth Circuit — Admitted 1993
  • Third Circuit — Admitted 2025

Professional Memberships

  • Massachusetts Bar Association

Community Involvement

  • Pro Bono Volunteer in Immigration Law

Publications

  1. The Effects of Firm Leadership Diversity on the Propensities of Entities to Engage in International Corrupt Business Practices (preparing to circulate for publication).
  2. Beyond Congruence: A Mathematical Framework, Based on Regulatory Focus Theory, of Angel Investors’ Risk-Reward Profiles and Strategic Investment Predispositions (preparing to circulate for publication).
  3. Is it Time for the Federal Regulation of the Tax Preparer Industry? New Insights from Legal and Empirical Developments, Marquette Law Review, 106(3) MARQ. L. REV. 543 (2023).
  4. Deconstructing the Statutory Landscape of Digital Harassment: An Evaluation of the Elements that Make an Effective Statute, [Georgetown] American Criminal Law Review, 57 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 1499-1567 (Spring 2021).
  5. All’s fair in love and war but nothing’s fair use on YouTube: How YouTube policies favor copyright owners and hinder legal fair use, 27 JOURNAL OF LAW, BUSINESS AND ETHICS 61 (2021).
  6. #IHateMyJob: Exploring the Limits of Employers’ Rights to Use Employment Policies to Regulate Employee Activity on Social Media, University of San Francisco Law Review, 52 U.S.F.L. REV. 229-274 (Winter 2018).
  7. Revenge Porn: The Name Doesn’t Do Nonconsensual Pornography Justice and the Remedies Don’t Offer Victims Enough Justice, Oregon Law Review, 98 OR. L. REV. 197-228 (2020).
  8. How the NLRB’s Decisions in Cases Involving Social Media Have Narrowed the Definition of Concerted Activity . . .. , 49(2) U. TOL. L. REV. 233-264 (Winter 2018).
  9. How Should McGraw-Hill Respond to Innovative Competitors that Threaten Its Market Dominance In the Digital Age?, 13 J. CRIT. INCIDENTS 31 (2020).
  10. Let’s Play: Fair Use or Copyright Infringement?, 12 J. CRIT. INCIDENTS 17, 42 (2019).
  11. Digital Diffusion and the Prospect of Disruptive Change in the U.S. Higher Education Textbook Industry, BUSINESS INNOVATION AND DISRUPTION IN PUBLISHING, MEDIA XXI, I: 113-146 (2013).

Ismini Tsakiri

Environmental Compliance and Regulatory Associate

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Attorney Tsakiri currently practices civil litigation in environmental law at the Law Office of Jonathan S. Sales. Ismini E. Tsakiri earned her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School and served as Case Comment Editor of the Suffolk Transnational Law Review. Attorney Tsakiri holds a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Environmental Studies from Northeastern University, where she was awarded the Double Husky Scholarship.

Attorney Tsakiri's prior legal experience includes civil litigation, business disputes, and criminal defense matters. At Suffolk University Law School, Attorney Tsakiri served as a Student Practitioner in the Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, representing a Massachusetts state agency and a non-profit organization on complex regulatory and clean water matters. She also held legal internships at the Conservation Law Foundation, focusing on environmental justice litigation and multi-state regulatory analysis, and at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, supporting renewable energy permitting and utility regulation.

Education

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA

  • –Juris Doctor, May 2025
  • –Dean’s List 2023–2024, 2024–2025
  • –Honorable Mention Oral Advocacy Award (2023)
  • –Honorable Mention Brief Award (2023)
  • –Pro Bono Honors
  • –Jessup International Moot Court Competition, Team Member: East Regional 2nd Best Applicant Memorial (2023)
  • –Research Assistant, Professor Ferrey (Summer/Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
  • –Research Assistant, Professor Dillon (Spring 2023)
  • –Environmental Law Society, Media Coordinator (2023), 1L Liaison (2022)
  • –Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Student Practitioner

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

  • –M.S. in Environmental Science and Public Policy, May 2021
  • –Caribbean Regional Research Incubator, USAID, Finalist (2021)
  • –Graduate Research Assistant, Social-Ecological Sustainability Lab

Northeastern University

  • –B.A. in Political Science and Environmental Studies, Minor: International Affairs, May 2018
  • –RISE Capstone Exposition (2017)
  • –College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Undergraduate Research Forum (2018)

Bar Admissions

  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts — Admitted 2025
  • District of Massachusetts — Admitted 2026

Professional Memberships

  • Suffolk Transnational Law Review, Case Comment Editor (2024), Staff Member (2023)
  • Massachusetts Bar Association

Publications

  1. Research Assistant, Professor Ferrey for publication: Constitutional Cutting Edge: Federal Planned Implied Preemption of State Power, 27 Vermont Environmental L. J. 112 (2025), available at https://vjel.vermontlaw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/VJEL-Vol.27Book1Final.pdf
  2. Aminpour, P., Gray, S.A., Beck, M.W., Furman, K.L., Tsakiri, I., et al. Urbanized knowledge syndrome — erosion of diversity and systems thinking in urbanites’ mental models. npj Urban Sustainability — Nature 2, 11 (May 2022)
  3. Tsakiri, I., The Environment is the new Frontline for Human Rights Defenders, UN Environment (Feb. 2019)
  4. Tsakiri, I., Defending the Undefended: The Rights of Nature in the Age of Humans, Northeastern University Political Review (2018)

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