Valery Bochnev is a native of Russia who moved to the US prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union.  He received his Bachelors from NYU and for his law degree he attended Rutgers and then transfered and graduated from Brooklyn Law School.  He has worked in employee benefits law for the Bank of America in San Francisco, and has spent several years with various small to medium size law firms and in private practice in New York, dealing with contracts, commerical real estate, insurance law, and litigation.  In 2006 he moved to Moscow as in-house counsel to an international film company where he represented the interests of Walt Disney, Columbia Pictures, Sony Entertainment and others.  Valery also has experience teaching English in New York schools with the Kaplan company, and freelancing in Moscow.  He is a member of the New York Bar.  Valery will be teaching Legal Writing II.