PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2006 - Duane Morris is pleased to announce that partner Sandra A. Jeskie, a member of the firm's Trial Practice Group and Information Technologies and Telecommunications interdisciplinary practice group in its Philadelphia office, has been named Assistant Secretary on the Executive Committee of the International Technology Law Association. The position puts Sandy on track to become the organization's president in 2010.
The International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw), formerly called the Computer Law Association, was founded in 1971, and is recognized as the world's premier organization representing lawyers in the field of technology law. The organization enjoys worldwide membership, representing six continents and a broad spectrum of expertise. Each year, ITechLaw hosts numerous educational conferences, roundtables and other events around the world. It also publishes a quarterly bulletin containing topics of relevance to its members. Sandy has been active in the organization for many years and now joins its Executive Committee. She is also on the Board of Directors and chairs the Communications Committee.
An experienced litigator, Sandy focuses on business and technology-based litigation. After working for 16 years as a computer scientist, she now represents clients in matters involving intellectual property and software litigation, e-commerce and Internet law. She also drafts and negotiates license agreements and Internet-related content agreements, policies and practices and systems development projects and advises clients on related issues.
Sandy has appeared on the faculties of dozens of professional education conferences in a number of U.S. cities and abroad, has been quoted in several publications, including the National Journal's Technology Daily, Computer World and the Philadelphia Business Journal, and co-authored a "Contracts" chapter in an acclaimed treatise, Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts. She has served as an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law and is an appointed member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Technology and Information Systems. She is also an executive committee member of the Business Law section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and past chair of its Cyberspace and E-Commerce Committee.
Sandy earned her J.D. from Temple University School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1996. Prior to that, she graduated with an M.B.A. in 1991 from LaSalle University, where she also earned her B.A. in computer science in 1984.