On Friday, December 11, join the American Center and the Education Advising Center for a presentation about test prep strategies. Speaker Andrew Mendelssohn obtained his Bachelors Degree from UC Berkeley, and his J.D. from Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. Upon graduation from law school, Andrew worked as in-house counsel for a small California mortgage company, American EquiFund. In 1995, he joined a small California law firm where he specialized in bankruptcy, real estate and business law. In 2002 he moved to North Carolina to open his own law practice, and expanded his legal specialties to include arbitration and mediation, but after a couple of years he was bitten by the travel bug: he took a position with a US government grantee and moved to Ekaterinburg to teach History, English, and Human Rights Law at various Ekaterinburg universities, including the Urals State Law Academy. He moved to Moscow at the end of 2007. Andrew is a member of the California and North Carolina Bars, and is a licensed mediator and is admitted to practice in various U.S. federal jurisdictions including the 9th Cirucuit Court of Appeals. Andrew directs the legal skills program at Pericles.