Providing litigation in commercial law, John S. Poulos currently serves as partner with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP Attorneys, a law firm based in Sacramento, California. Working as a lawyer for nearly 20 years, John S. Poulos earned his juris doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, then relocated to Sacramento to begin his career.

1. VISITING BERKELEY
PROFESSORS BRING
EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE
TO LAW STUDENTS
John S Poulos, Sacramento

2. Introduction
 Providing litigation in commercial law, John S. Poulos currently
serves as partner with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP
Attorneys, a law firm based in Sacramento, California. Working as a
lawyer for nearly 20 years, John S. Poulos earned his juris doctor
from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, then
relocated to Sacramento to begin his career.
A prestigious law school, Berkeley Law has six visiting professors
this year with the goal of providing additional insights into the
profession of law for its students. These professors are Jill Fisch,
Zenichi Shishido, Joshua Cohen, John Diamond, Ellen Kreitzberg,
and Tamar Kricheli-Katz.
An international lecturer, the highly-acclaimed corporate law
professor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School Jill Fisch
brings years of expertise in her teaching of the Business
Associations class for Berkeley Law students.

3. Visiting Berkeley Professors
 With extensive experience as an advisor to Japan’s various
ministerial departments, including that of justice, economy,
and trade and industry, business law scholar and author
Zenichi Shishido is an annual visiting professor at Berkeley
Law teaching the course Business Law in Japan and the U.S.
A UC Berkeley Distinguished Senior Fellow in law,
philosophy, and political science, Joshua Cohen also teaches
as a faculty member at Apple University, instructing
employees of the internationally renowned Apple.
Serving as a professor at University of California, Hastings
College of the Law, John Diamond, an award-winning teacher
and author of three casebooks, is also teaching criminal law
at Berkeley this year.

4. Conclusion
 Ellen Kreitzberg comes to Berkeley from the
Santa Clara University of Law, where she serves
as professor of law and director of the Center for
Social Justice and Public Service. She also runs
the Death Penalty College for defense lawyers
assigned to capital cases.
Arriving from Tel Aviv University where she is
assistant professor of law, sociology, and
anthropology, Tamar Kricheli-Katz is teaching the
course Comparative Constitutional Law: The Case
of Israel.