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• Member of the Bar of the State of New York

A graduate of the Law School of the University of Chicago, Ms. Weinstein has been engaged in this practice for over twenty-five years. She advises prominent corporations, high tech and small business, renowned universities, organizations, and governments. She counsels and structures on behalf of chief executives, and those ranking in public and private entities. Ms. Weinstein is an active participant in the national security, high tech, energy, environmental, and other sectors, think tanks and circles. She identifies, tracks, and presents legislative and policy agendas, and has accessed multi-millions of dollars of funding for paradigm-shifting and more routine projects and assets from the U.S. Congressional and federal agency processes and, at times, from foreign counterparts. Further details are available at the Government Affairs page. Another area of focus is the expansion of client business in established and emerging markets, in Europe, Asia, the former Russian and Central Asian Republics, the Middle East, Indo-Pacific, Africa, and other venues. Many of Ms. Weinstein's activities have been described in the preceding sections, including as a special assistant at the White House, as an adviser to various governments, board, committee member, stakeholder in White House, executive branch, international institutions, Cambridge University, project advisory committees and working groups. Select activities include: currently serving as a vice chair of the National Security Committee of the American Bar Association, former chair of its Investment, Development and Privatization Committee, advisor to the Capital Club Chapter of the Association of Old Crows, focused on national security, and cyber, member of the Cosmos Club and the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, the societies of diplomats and distinguished others. With Cosmos, active on its International Affairs Committee, having organized numerous programs with ranking foreign affairs, national security and Congressional figures, led its Congressional Roundtable series, active in its Cyber and National Security groups, on the advisory committee of the Aspen Institute's Women Forward International. Prior, on the advisory and regular board (ten years) of the MIT Enterprise Forum, with leading technologies; advisor to the Fulbright Association, member of the executive committee of American Friends of Wilton Park, the post-Bretton Woods civil society organization, and others. Ms. Weinstein engages in international arbitration and mediation activities. Among her activities, Ms. Weinstein is a member and/or highly active or has been highly active and cognizant of the activities of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Atlantic Council (invited to be an enhanced member of one of its divisions), the Wilson Center, Carnegie Institute for Peace, SAIS and its Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Caspian Policy Center, European Institute, the Jamestown Foundation, and with various aviation and aerospace associations, government contractors, and think tanks, the Small Business Exporters Association, the International Bar Association, American Bar Association, the Bretton Woods Organization, Fulbright Association, American Society of International Law, MIT Enterprise Forum, the Harvard, Wharton and Chicago Booth Business Associations, the North Virginia Tech Council, prior, charter member, Eco-Links, the joint European and Department of Commerce technology export initiative, the Environmental Export Council, Alliance to Save Energy, the National Press Club, British American Business Association, the British Consultants Bureau, Windsor Energy Group and Advisory, various chambers of commerce, on the boards of trade, civil society, humanitarian and arts organizations. During the post-Soviet phase, Ms. Weinstein served as an adviser to the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative, which advised Central and Eastern European emergent governments. In New York, Ms. Weinstein was a member of the Committee of the Newly Formed States of the former Soviet Union, and the Committee for International Trade of the Bar Association of the City of New York. She was an invited participant to the highly selective UN Academic Council several weeks' program at Yale University on International Organizations and Rebuilding War-Torn Societies, personally recommended by the preeminent international jurisprudence expert, the late Dr. Louis B. Sohn, who also served as a personal advisor. Ms. Weinstein has authored book chapters and articles on a variety of topics, including international business, corporate, cross-border issues, issues involving the South China Sea, the European Union, Brexit, international banking, financial institutions, new energy technologies, treaties and conventions, such as the Budapest Cyber Convention (for 2022), OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission on Iraq Claims, issues before the Luxembourg Court of Justice, Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, and other aspects of public and private international law. Ms. Weinstein wrote seminal chapters in the post-Soviet period on Russian Federation and Central Asian corporate and securities law developments for West's International Capital Market Treatise, the premier legal publisher, and articles on this and other corporate topics for its predecessor entity, Clark, Boardman and Callighan. Her articles have appeared in publications of the American Society of International Law, the American Bar Association, Energy Daily, The Legal Times, law review, for a major Asian business and economic publication, select distributions to renowned international entities, and others. Ms. Weinstein has been a featured speaker and panelist at annual meetings, conferences, and events in the U.S. and abroad, including for a major U.S. Department of Commerce national tour, World Trade Centers, including on procurement, the international financial institutions, the development banks, the dynamics of global energy, and others. Ms. Weinstein is a member of the bar of the State of New York and the District of Columbia.