Shamita Etienne-Cummings

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Shamita Etienne-Cummings is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She serves technology clients by drawing on her business, technical and legal acumen developed over 30 plus years in engineering, law and management. Her experience enables her to take a client-focused business practical approach leading her to become a trusted advisor to many leading global technology companies.

Ms. Etienne-Cummings’ industry experience focuses on mobile communication, semiconductor design and processing, media, aerospace, defense, consumer electronic devices and medical devices. She draws on her deep technical knowledge, based on her previous work as an electrical engineer and program manager for GTE Corporation in the mobile telecommunications industry, where she designed and implemented wireless communication and satellite systems.

In addition to being a first chair patent litigator, Ms. Etienne-Cummings represents clients in breach of contract and trade secret matters before district courts, the ITC and the International Commercial Court (ICC), and routinely provides advice to clients on general patent diligence matters.

Ms. Etienne-Cummings is an adjunct professor of law at George Washington University School of Law where she teaches a patent trial course.

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Southern Illinois University School of Law, J.D.

University of Pennsylvania, B.S.E.E.