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Svetlana
Schreiber & Assoc., Co. L.P.A.
SINCE 1982 |
Principal--Svetlana J. Schreiber, Esq.
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Ms. Svetlana Schreiber was born in Romania.
She came to the US when she was 12 years old and spent the next decade
in New Jersey where she obtained her BA in comparative literature from
Douglas College, New Brunswick, NJ in 1973 (where she was president of
her class for two years). She was admitted to a PhD program
at Rutgers University which she commenced in 1973, but then marriage caused
her to move to Ohio where she completed a MA degree in the same subject
at Kent State University, where among other things, she taught a course
in Romanian. She attended John
Marshall Law School at Cleveland State University and received a JDL
in 1981. She has been in private practice since that time,
specializing in domestic relations, personal injury, worker compensation
and social security cases. The firm also handles Constitutional
work, specifically First Amendment litigation, discrimination, police and
government misconduct and major criminal cases. Since 1990, Ms. Schreiber
has become the primary attorney for the extensive Romanian community, being
one of the few lawyers in the country to speak Romanian fluently.
As a result of her involvement with the Romanian community she expanded
her practice to include immigration law. She is a member of
AILA (Association of Immigration Lawyers), of its Ohio Chapter, of the
Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and of the Cuyahoga County Bar Association.
An article in the New York Times describing the plight of Romanian stowaways who were incarcerated in Elizabeth New Jersey drew her attention and caused her to organize a multi state effort to bring legal help to these asylum seekers. She was fortunate to elicit the help of Bishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church and of Armand Scala of the Romanian American organization known as CORA and throughout 1985 -1986, she devoted much of her time, bro bono, to successfully litigating on behalf of these young men and women. She subsequently became a member of CORA (Congress of Romanian Americans). She is currently the acting Chairperson of the Cleveland Chapter of the Romanian American Chamber of Commerce. She is married and resides in Cleveland Hts., Ohio and has two grown sons. Since 1986 Ms. Schreiber has been heavily involved with the Cleveland Public Theatre and is an active board member. |
Ms. Schreiber at the White House with the Romanian Ambassador to the United States, March, 2000.
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