Leah Ramos

Leah is responsible for designing and implementing the organization’s compliance and audit programs. In her role, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the compliance and audit teams that are charged with ensuring adequate internal controls and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and driving a culture of integrity. Before joining STOBG, Leah was the director of financial disclosure compliance and counsel at the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state agency created to restore public trust in government by enforcing compliance with the state’s ethics and lobbying laws. Her experience in public service was preceded by years as a litigator at Am Law 100 firms, handling complex commercial cases and providing counsel on compliance and labor and employment matters. Early in her career, Leah clerked for a U.S. federal judge, managing cases and drafting orders and opinions in one of the most active federal trial courts in the nation.

Leah graduated from New York City’s Stuyvesant High School and received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania. A proud alumnus of Fordham Law School, Leah was also an adjunct professor there, teaching legal writing and research and lawyering fundamentals to first-year law students.