A highly respected sports and entertainment industry attorney with more than a decade of experience, Rana Dershowitz joined the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) on April 2, 2007, as the organization's Deputy General Counsel and Managing Director of Legal and Government Affairs. She became the Interim General Counsel on May 23, 2007.

Previously, Dershowitz had served as Vice President and, prior to that, Director, Legal and Business Affairs at Madison Square Garden, L.P., where she was one of the primary attorneys handling a broad range of legal and business matters for the NBA's New York Knicks, the NHL's New York Rangers, and the WNBA's New York Liberty. She also handled legal matters for Madison Square Garden Network and Fox Sports Net New York.

Before Madison Square Garden, Dershowitz was an associate in the Television and Film Group of the renowned New York entertainment law firm of Grubman, Indursky & Schindler, P.C. She began her legal career as an associate in the New York office of the international law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson where she focused on litigation matters in the areas of antitrust, commercial law disputes, employment law, and intellectual property. Dershowitz has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Sports Law at New York Law School.

Dershowitz is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa honors, was the recipient of a John Harvard Scholarship, and was a four-year member and 1989-1992 captain of the Harvard Varsity Ski Team. She received her law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and where she was on the Staff of the Harvard Journal on Legislation.