INESSA SHALEVICH, ESQ.

**** **** **** ****** • Brooklyn, NY 11235 • 917-***-**** • jwfai3@r.postjobfree.com

ADMISSION

• New Jersey, 2010

• New York, pending

• Registered to sit for the January 2011 Patent Bar Examination

EDUCATION

University at Buffalo Law School, Buffalo, NY

J.D. (estimated class rank: top 15%) 2009

• Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Concentration

• Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal, Technology Editor 2007–2008, Submissions Editor 2008–2009

• Published comment: Protection of Trademarks and Geographical Indications, 6 Buff. Intell. Prop. L.J. 67 (2009)

George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C.

Summer Intellectual Property Law Program at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany 2007

Pace University New York, NY

B.A. Computer Science, Pre-law minor 2004

• Law Society, President 2002-2003

• Mock trial team, Captain 2003-2004

EXPERIENCE

Law Office of Roman Popik, P.C., New York, NY

Associate 02/2009–11/2010

• Drafted an appellate brief, complaints, interrogatories, requests for documents, affidavits, notices of depositions, settlement letters, correspondence to clients and opposing counsel, motions, pleadings, shareholder, management, financing, and real estate development agreements.

• Conducted legal research, compiled evidence, translated documents and depositions, rendered discovery reviews for commercial litigation cases in state and federal courts.

• Recommended, upgraded and systematized all computers and peripherals; troubleshot and maintained software.

Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP, Buffalo, NY

Summer Associate 04/2008–10/2008

• Drafted complaints, pleadings, legal memoranda, motions and responses, conducted online and library research.

• Set up machines and software for electronic file storage and e-discovery; trained attorneys to use the technology.

Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC, Buffalo, NY

Law Clerk 01/2007–08/2008

• Drafted intellectual property license agreements, analysis of proprietary technologies, and liability analyses.

• Researched issues, drafted memoranda of law for patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright cases.

Entwistle & Cappucci, LLP, New York, NY

eDiscovery Analyst 11/2004–06/2005

• Prepared source Electronically Stored Information (ESI) for processing, including data transfer, inventory, and extraction from forensic container files.

• Generated reports to support work performed at each step of ESI processing workflow.

Office of the New York State Attorney General, Internet Bureau, New York, NY

Mediator 02/2003–10/2004

• Examined consumer complaints, detected illegal Internet content, communicated with law enforcement agencies.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Bilingual in English and Russian; limited proficiency in Spanish.

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