Juris Doctor, May, 1998

Top 5% Magna Cum Laude

Honors: James C. Connell Award for Outstanding Student in Criminal Law; CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Outstanding Student in Evidence, Family Law, Trial Advocacy, Real Estate Law & Comparative Law

Activities: Editor, Cleveland State Law Review Staff Editor, The Gavel, Law Student Newspaper Treasurer, Criminal Law Society

University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, June, 1993

Honors: Political Science National Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha

EXPERIENCE:

Principal, Jihad M. Smaili, Esq., L.L.C.- Private Practice, Spring 2002

The Office of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Cleveland, Ohio
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Fall, 2000-Spring 2002

The Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio Assistant Attorney General Fall, 1998 - 2000

Messerman & Messerman Co., L.P.A., Cleveland, Ohio Law Clerk Summer, 1996 - Summer, 1998

Professor Dena Davis, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Research Assistant Summer, 1996 - Spring, 1997

Professor David F. Forte, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Research Assistant Summer, 1996 - Fall, 1997

MEMBERSHIPS:

Admitted to the Ohio Bar, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Northern District of Ohio, & Southern District of Ohio; Member of the Columbus Bar Association's Lawyer's for Justice Program/Pro Bono Work; Member of Executive Office For Immigration Review Pro Bono; Member Catholic Charities Pro Bono; Member American Immigration Lawyers Association; Member American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Member Ohio Bar Association.