Ms. Naudia Simone Foster

Naudia Simone Foster

Background

Naudia Simone Foster is a third-year law student at The Southern University Law Center. Ms. Foster comes from a military family but calls both North Carolina and Virginia home. She is a first-generation American, born to Jamaican parents, and is a first-generation law student.

Before her matriculation at Southern University Law Center, Ms. Foster earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies with a minor in Political Science from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has worked as a multi-litigation paralegal at a Vault 100 firm and several medium-sized law firms before her tenure at the law center.

Leadership and Scholarship

Ms. Foster currently serves as the 2022-2023 Student Bar Association President of The Southern University Law Center. Naudia previously served as the 2L Class President. Ms. Foster is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of Intellectual Property, Technology, and Law, where she successfully acquired a 25,000-dollar sponsorship from a Fortune 500 Technology Company and simultaneously served as an Associate-Editor on The Journal of Race, Gender, & Poverty. She has authored two articles/ she has the distinguished honor of publication in both Journals.

Advocacy in Law School

Ms. Foster's advocacy has been exemplified inside and outside the law center. She has successfully advocated for the reinstatement of Intellectual Property Law to the academic course curriculum and the addition of a Transactional Law Certificate Program. These classes will be offered this Fall for Southern University Law Center students.

Work Experience

Ms. Foster currently serves as the Law-Student Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Torts Trial Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Committee of Cyber-Security and Data Privacy. Additionally, during law school, she completed internships at the Office of International Patent Cooperation at the United States Trademark and Patent Office (USPTO), Apple Inc.

As an Apple HBCU Scholar, she was an Intellectual Property and Licensing Intern, where her areas of practice were primarily with the Patent Group. Ms. Foster is also a Thurgood Marshall College Fund Corporate Scholar and recipient of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund 2021-2022 Patent Quality Education & Training Foundation Scholarship. In addition, Apple, Inc. selected her as a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Scholar (LCLD), and she is an inaugural recipient of the Dinisa Hardley Folmar Scholarship.

This summer, Ms. Foster is currently interning at Rubrik Inc., for the Commercial Legal, Intellectual Property, Corporate Finance, and Product Legal Practice Groups. This fall, Ms. Foster will be externing for The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in Chief Judge Nannette Brown’s Chambers.

Affiliations

Ms. Foster is an active member of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA), Black Girls Golf, Intellectual Property Law Association, Fashion Law Society, Black Law Students Association, Sports Entertainment Legal Association, Board of Student Advisors, and volunteers as a law clerk at Southeast Legal Louisiana Services. After Law school, she strives to practice Intellectual Property Law in both the areas of patents and trademarks regarding litigation and transactional work.

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