MIDWEST TRADE LAW

I am Valentin Povarchuk, international trade attorney and owner of Midwest Trade Law. I wanted to become a lawyer since I was 13, and I am living my dream. I prepared well for my legal career, obtaining my undergraduate degree from Cornell University with honors summa cum laude (highest honors), and serving as Editor-in-Chief of Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal at the University of Washington School of Law... Over the course of my career I have worked in over a dozen countries in Europe, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and with clients and colleagues in dozens of other countries around the world. When I was a paralegal and then a young lawyer, I was privileged to get trained in international trade law by working in the top trade practices of premier Washington DC law firms - Steptoe & Johnson, McDermott Will & Emery, and Arent Fox LLP. Since then, I have worked as in-house trade compliance counsel for some of the largest multinational companies in the world in..