EDUCATION

South Texas College of Law Houston, Houston, Texas

Juris Doctor, May 2020

Took September 2020 Texas Bar Exam

Activities in law school: AIPN Young Negotiators, Member (by invitation only); AIPN Student Chapter, Vice-President; Energy Newsletter, Senior Editor; Oil & Gas Law Society, Student Outreach Coordinator; Jewish Law Society, Vice-President of Programming

Study Abroad: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2018

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology with a Minor in Marketing, June 2009

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

Sherkawy & Associates, PC, Houston, Texas

Law Clerk, October 2019 – May 2020

Researched and drafted memoranda for family law, real estate, property taxes, and immigration law cases

Prepared discovery requests, reviewed and edited personal affidavits, interviewed clients

Professor Katerina Lewinbuk, South Texas College of Law Houston, Houston, Texas

Research/Teaching Assistant, January 2018 – May 2020

Coauthored attorney ethics training curriculum and materials for the Russian Federal Bar Association

Researched and edited information for the second edition of the book “Connecting Ethics & Practice: A Lawyer’s Guide to Professional Responsibility” and for multiple law review articles, including one on Russian ethics in progress

Established contacts with Russian law schools to recruit Professor Lewinbuk as US professor to conduct master classes and prepared training materials for the masterclasses

Mejias Lindsay, PLLC, Houston, Texas

Summer Associate, May 2019 – August 2019

Drafted Stowers demands, petitions, discovery responses, and conducted client intake for personal injury matters

Prepared and assembled applications for form I-589 applications, researched EB-5 and TPS law

YMCA International Services, Houston, Texas

Intern, July 2018 – August 2018

Assisted clients to prepare affidavits for asylum, VAWA and family immigration cases

Researched countries’ environment and gathered secondary evidence for clients’ cases

Drafted cover letters, gathered evidence and assembled applications for I-130, I-730 and I-864 Petitions

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Elena’s Cleaning, Shreveport, Louisiana

Business Owner, May 2013 – August 2017

Implemented marketing campaigns for daily cleaning services to residential clients

Created invoices, purchased supplies, and balanced the budget to learn valuable financial aspects of a business

Consulting Actuary John Gibson, MAAA, MS, EA, Shreveport, Louisiana

Actuarial Assistant (part-time), January 2016 – May 2016; January 2015 – June 2015

Compiled and categorized data for actuarial portion of the annual statement filing for a life insurance company

American Councils for International Education, Moscow, Russia

Assistant Alumni Coordinator, Open World Program, December 2008 – June 2010

Prepared and sorted statistics of 14,000 alumni weekly, monthly, and yearly for American Councils’ office in Washington, D.C. for reports presented to U.S. Embassy in Moscow and U.S. Congress

Coordinated operation of seven regional representatives

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Legal Education in the United States, online presentation for Udmurt State University, Russia, February 2020

Co-authored The Voice of the God is Crippling: Law School for Helicoptered Millennials published in the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics, Volume 10 Number 1 and presented at The Legal Malpractice and Ethics Symposium, St. Mary’s Law School, January 2020.

Co-authored 2018 Professional Malpractice Survey Reports “Increase in Severity and Scope” of Claims as Law Firms Adapt to Changing Markets in the second edition of the book “Connecting Ethics & Practice: A Lawyer’s Guide to Professional Responsibility” (Aspen/Wolters Kluwer Spring 2019)

Analysis of the JD Program and Specificity of Legal Education in the US, online presentation with Conference of Law, Society, State: Problems of Theory and History, People’s Friendship University of Russia, April 2018

CERTIFICATES

Mediation Certificate; Paralegal Certificate, Louisiana State University, Shreveport; LexisNexis Legal Research

HONORS & ACTIVITIES

Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, Scholarship Recipient, 2019-2020

Texas Young Lawyers Association, Diversity Scholarship, First Place Award Recipient, 2018

Providence House, Board Member, January 2016-August 2017

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INTERESTS

Fluent in Russian; yoga, reading non-fiction, travel

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