Angelica Żołnierowicz, whose specialty areas include blockchain technologies and criminal securities fraud, recently joined the law firm of Conrad & Scherer. Before the new position, Żołnierowicz worked for a prominent Washington, D.C.-based law firm and is permitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland and New York. She also has worked for two major law firms in Warsaw, Poland.
Żołnierowicz earned her Juris Doctorate from the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America and an L.L.M. in national security law from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international studies from Boston University and attended graduate school at The Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Żołnierowicz holds special certifications in international arbitration and dispute resolution, comparative international business and trade law and securities and international business law. In addition, she is a registered immigration counsel with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Executive Office for Immigration Review.
While attending Georgetown Law, she served as Editor of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. The Department of Defense selected her to represent Georgetown as a Military Commission Observer at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where she saw live Sept. 11 hearings. Also, while studying law, she worked for the New York State Office of the Attorney General’s Organized Crime Task Force, the World Bank’s Integrity Vice Presidency and the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
Zolnierowicz is fluent in Polish and proficient in French and Spanish and has basic Czech, Ukrainian, and Russian abilities.
