As a Russian attorney, Irina obtained her LL.M. degree in International and Comparative Law, with High Honors, from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2003. Since that time Irina has had a successful legal career in the United States that started in a boutique law office in Chicago and progressed first to a large law firm and then to a legal department of a major gaming and entertainment company on the East Coast.
While working in-house, Irina gained extensive experience in drafting and negotiating company contracts and addressing the day-to-day legal inquiries of management. Irina also handled patrons’ liability claims and performed risk management, communicated with outside counsel, and assisted with all aspects of corporate governance and compliance.
Upon earning her J.D. degree, Irina joined one of Chicago’s premier class action litigation law firms, where she handled complex consumer class actions from their inception to the resolution and appeals. She achieved a reversal of an unfavorable district court’s judgment by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in its landmark 75-page decision in Wigod v. Wells Fargo, 673 F.3d 547 (7th Cir. 2012).
Irina earned her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law with High Honors, Order of Coif, in 2009. She represented Chicago-Kent in the McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition. Irina was also a member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, and her student note on the issue of a casino liability to problem gamblers was published in the March 2010 issue, 85 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 369. Irina externed for the Honorable Susan E. Cox in the Northern District of Illinois, and earned the CALI award for obtaining the highest grade in Constitutional Law, Evidence, and Legal Writing III courses.
Irina is formerly a nationally ranked badminton player.