Jenny Lynn Sheridan is a Careers in Law Teaching Fellow at Columbia Law School. Prior to joining Columbia, Jenny practiced law in Silicon Valley including serving as General Counsel of two software companies. In addition she taught for over a decade in the nationally recognized IP/high tech program at Santa Clara Law School. She began her career as a corporate law associate at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in New York City, and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in Palo Alto, California. She served on Columbia’s Board of Visitors as well as the Executive Committee of the IP section of the California Bar. She was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Charles Evans Hughes fellow. In 2010, Jenny volunteered overseas as a consultant advising NGO’s on women’s advocacy efforts in Sri Lanka.