Jessica Schulberg

Jessica served as a part-time Spring Associate at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP in San Diego in Spring 2025 on the Corporate and Tax Team while pursuing her LLM in Taxation full-time at the University of San Diego School of Law. She is taking a summer break to prepare for the California Bar Exam and will continue her LLM studies in Fall 2025, with expected graduation in May 2026. She has been a licensed attorney in good standing in Wisconsin since 2016.

Jessica graduated with honors from Columbia University in 2004, earned a graduate degree from the London School of Economics in 2010, and completed her JD at the University of Arizona in 2016.

From 2017 to 2021, she served as an Active Duty Judge Advocate (JAG) in the U.S. Air Force, with assignments in South Carolina, Cuba, and the U.K. Most recently, she worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of California (2021–2024).

As an AUSA, while handling a full caseload in the Border Crimes section in San Diego, Jessica worked closely with the FBI, IRS-CI, and the Romanian government to investigate and indict a $5 million Covid fraud and international money laundering scheme. Jessica traveled to Romania for the investigation and served as lead prosecutor in the resulting 6-Defendant case, United States v. Eduard Ghiocel et al., 23-cr-0650-LAB, 14-Defendant case, United States v. David Constantin et al., 23-cr-2090-RBM, and a 1-Defendant case, United States v. Constantin Bobi Sandu, 23-cr-0386-LAB, charging conspiracy to commit money laundering, substantive money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, substantive wire fraud, and criminal forfeiture. The cases involved extradition of defendants from Romania, and seizure of proceeds from the conspiracy, including high-end luxury vehicles, gold, and cash in Romania.