Berliner Cohen is pleased to announce that Dawn C. Sweatt has joined the Business Litigation group as an associate attorney.
“Dawn is a talented litigator with substantial knowledge in a variety of legal areas, and we are fortunate to have her at Berliner Cohen,” states Jonathan Wolf, Berliner Cohen partner and chair of the Business Litigation group.
Prior to joining Berliner Cohen, she worked as a litigation associate for law firms in the Silicon Valley and Sacramento where her trial practice focused on complex business transactions, trade secrets, real estate, contracts, employment, insurance bad faith, professional negligence, and criminal law matters. During law school Ms. Sweatt was a law clerk in the Sacramento and Placer Counties District Attorney’s Offices, the California Attorney General’s Office and as a legal intern in the California Governor’s Office of Legal Affairs.
Before law school, Ms. Sweatt was a software and management consultant for Entergi and business development manager for Regus in Sacramento, California, and a software consultant for Bi-Tech Software, Inc. in Chico, California.
Ms. Sweatt earned her J.D. from the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, with distinction, in 2005 and her B.A. in economics from California State University, Chico, with honors, in 1999. She is admitted to the United States District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of California and the United States Bankruptcy Court of Northern California.