Legal Advantage, LLC
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Legal Advantage, LLC Appoints Jeffrey Sobek as Regional Sales Director
Bethesda, MD- Legal Advantage, LLC, a leading provider of intellectual property and litigation support services, today announced that Jeffrey Sobek has been hired as the company's Midwest Region Sales Director. Sobek will head up the company’s Chicago, Illinois location and will assume sales and marketing responsibilities for the company’s award winning patent illustration, patent research, patent translation, and IP trial graphics services for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Sobek, an attorney, has more than 8 years of sales experience in the Chicago technology marketplace, in addition to having previously held the position of General Counsel of a Chicago telecommunications company. He graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University and earned his Juris Doctorate from the John Marshall Law School. While in law school, Sobek was a member of The John Marshall Law Review and had the honor of publishing his article entitled "Balancing Individual Privacy Rights and the Rights of Trademark Owners in Access to the WHOIS" in the Fall 2004 John Marshall Law Review. Sobek also received an L.L.M. (Masters of Laws) with Honors in Information Technology and Privacy Law from The John Marshall Law School in May of 2008.
"We expect Jeff to be a great addition to our team and an important asset to our customers,” said David Hemperly, Legal Advantage’s Vice President of Business Development. “His knowledge of the legal process, experience as a legal professional and sales expertise are a unique combination of skills that will add additional value to the services Legal Advantage offers to our clients," Hemperly added.