Overview
Vanessa Pessoa is an attorney at the Minneapolis office of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. Her practice includes patent procurement in electrical, software, and mechanical technologies. She earned a Bachelor in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidade de Fortaleza (Brazil, 2007), where she was exposed to different engineering areas and computer programming. Previously, Vanessa worked as a Telecommunication Engineer at Telebras. S.A., where she worked with infrastructure and support of networks to telecommunication services by developing viability studies and supervising installment and maintenance of telecommunication equipment. Vanessa also has a Bachelor in Law from Universidade de Fortaleza (Brazil, 2019) and received a Civil Law Initiative Certificate from the Panthéon-Assas Paris II University (generally known as Sorbonne) (Paris, 2015). Vanessa received her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Mitchell Hamline School of Law (2023).
Education
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
St. Paul, MN, 2023, J.D.
Magna Cum Laude, Dean’s List
Law Review: Mitchell Hamline Law Review, Associate
Universidade de Fortaleza
Fortaleza, Brazil, 2007, Bachelor in Telecommunications Engineer
Tutor in Algorithms & Computer Programming and earned a Research Scholarship for development of a civil engineering project.
This is a 5.5 years course with a solid base including, inter alia, Physics I, II, III, and IV; Experimental Physics I, II, and III; Calculus I, II, and III; Technological Chemistry; Heat and Mass; Electric Circuits I and II; Electric Circuits Lab I and II; Electronic Circuit I and II; Electronic Circuit Lab I and II; Electromagnetism, and Microprocessors.
Universidade de Fortaleza
Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, 2019, Bachelor in Law
Class Rank 11/400
Bachelor in law is a professional degree that qualifies students to sit for the bar exam in Brazil. This course is based on the civil law system and lasts 5.5 years.
Panthéon, Assas Université – Paris II (Sorbonne)
Paris, France, 2015
Civil Law Initiative Certificate
Seventy hours of lectures at the Summer University of Continental Law in Paris in the francophone curriculum comprising: Intellectual Property (10 hours); the Civil Law Systems in a Comparative Perspective (10 hours); European and International Contract Law (10 hours); International Disputes Resolution (10 hours); Family Law (10 hours); Comparative Civil Liability Law (10 hours); and Public Contracts (10 hours).
Bar Admissions
USPTO (Limited Recognition #800,066)
Florida
Minnesota
