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New York University School of Law
One Logan Square
18th & Cherry Streets, 27th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6933
Fax: 215.568.0300
Biography
Sharon McKee, a litigator, graduated in 1996 from New York University School of Law, where she was a Senior Editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics and won a first prize at the NYU Trial Lawyers Association Oral Advocacy Tournament. Sharon received her undergraduate degree with honors from Grinnell College in 1982. From 1996 to 1997, she served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard L. Nygaard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Prior to entering law school, Sharon worked for three years in New York doing welfare rights advocacy for the elderly and for seven years as a translator / interpreter of the Russian language for various media companies and publishers.
Education
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1996, JD
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1982, BA, with Honors, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa
Clerkship
The Honorable Richard L. Nygaard, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1996 – 1997
Honors and Awards
- Recognized as one of the Women on the Verge by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Weekly, 2006
- Named by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star (2005) as the result of a statewide poll of lawyers
- Progress Publishers, Second Prize, English translation of Culture and Perestroika, 1988
- New York University Law School, Journal of International Law and Politics
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
Community
- Board of Directors, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
Pro Bono
- Barrett v. West Chester University, 2003 WL 22803477 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 12, 2003): Successfully brought a Title IX case seeking to require a college to reinstate its women’s gymnastics team
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Languages
- Russian
- Swedish