Juli C. Schwartz

Juli Schwartz is an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Stein Shostak Shostak Pollack & O'Hara, LLP, a customs and international trade law boutique. Ms. Schwarts' practice consists of customs and international trade law, including tariff classification, valuation, quota and visa issues; country of origin, marketing and labeling rules; intellectual property rights protection and enforcement before U.S. customs and border protection; trade compliance; seizure, forfeiture and penalty cases, trade remedy cases (e.g. antidumping) and import requirements administered by other federal agencies (e.g. the Food and Drug Administration). she is experienced in handling administrative cases as well as federal litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Schwartz provided policy analysis on China-related export controls. In 2005, she served on assignment with the Economic/Political Section of the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou, China. She began her career in international trade at the State of Georgia's representative commercial office in Shanghai, China, where she provided market entry services to Georgia companies.

Ms. Schwartz is the author of a number of print and online publications, including ''Security, Chinese Imports and American Ports: the Current Status of the American C-TPAT Initiative,'' Asiabizblog - Business and Law for China and Asia (Mar. 21, 2008), at www.asiabizblog.com; Comment, ''More Bark Than Bite? Procedural Limitations and the Future of ATCA Litigation Against Corporate Contractors,'' 37 Rutgers L.J. 867 (2006). Ms. Schwartz was a co-translator (with her colleague, Jason X. Li) on ''Guoji Sifa Quanqiu Luntan Wuhan Xuanyan,'' [''The Global Forum on the Private International Law Wuhan Declaration''] in Chinese Yearbook of Private International Law and Comparative Law (Peking University Press ed. 2008).

Ms. Schwartz is admitted to the California and New Jersey bars and to the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the U.S. Court of International Trade. She is also a member of the Los Angeles chapter of Women in International Trade, the American Bar Association's International Law Section and the Los Angeles County Bar Association's International Law Section.

Ms. Schwartz received her Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law (Camden, NJ), where she was an executive member of the law review. Ms. Schwarts holds a Master of Arts degree in Asian Area studies from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (Public Affairs Option) from the George Washington University (Washington, D.C.). She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.