Virginia Scholtes is an attorney licensed to practice law in California. She believes that legal services should be accessible to all people and identifies as a bisexual polyamorous woman.
After graduating from Stanford University with a bachelors degree in human biology and creative writing, she attended Berkeley Law and earned her J.D. with a focus on intellectual property and business law. She then practiced corporate transactions law in the San Francisco office of Covington & Burling, LLP, where she reviewed and drafted a wide variety of commercial agreements and represented under-resourced entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations pro bono.
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She founded Carnelian Legal in 2018 and currently volunteers as a crisis counselor for Bay Area Women Against Rape. Her counseling experience informs her approach to the practice of law.
EXPERIENCE
Bay Area Women Against Rape
Oakland, CA Certified Sexual Assault Counselor October 2018–present
The Honorable Andrew J. Guilford, United States District Court
Judicial Extern Summer 2014
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Covington & Burling, LLP
San Francisco, CA Corporate Associate, Life Sciences Transactions October 2016–September 2018
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EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA
J.D., Certificate for the Law & Technology Program, May 2016
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Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.A. with honors, Human Biology (minor in Creative Writing), June 2013
Oaksterdam University, Oakland, CA
Advanced Classic Cannabis Seminar, January 2018 |
PUBLICATIONS
Foreword for Berkeley Technology Law Journal Annual Review (2016)
The Lexmark Test for False Advertising Standing: When Two Prongs Don’t Make a Right (2015)
Open Data Literature Review for the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Symposium in April 2015
The Lexmark Test for False Advertising Standing: When Two Prongs Don’t Make a Right (2015)
Open Data Literature Review for the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Symposium in April 2015