Alex Roshuk (July 14, 1956 – November 9, 2014) was an American attorney who was the first legal advisor to the

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. He was also an electrician and worked in the entertainment industry as a director and editor. Roshuk was born in

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and went to Catholic school. He practiced law in New York beginning in 1998 and from 2003 to 2005 was the first legal advisor to the

. Roshuk wrote a 1,300-word summary of arbitration and mediation modes of legal dispute resolution that became the basis for the Wikipedia

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. He was also a participant in the Association of Arbitrators of the

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. He directed several educational television documentaries in Italian and a short film entitled ' in 1981. He also founded

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, a nonprofit organization for postproduction. Roshuk was also an electrical engineer and entertained children as "Brooklyn

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" from 1966 until at least 2012.

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