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Meet The Faculty
Jacqueline Martinez Esq.
Ms. Martinez founded JBM Legal, LLC, a full-service law firm dedicated to providing legal representation to the Pittsburgh immigrant community . Currently, JBM Legal, LLC has offices in Pittsburgh, PA, Whittier, CA, and Venice, FL. Ms. Martinez is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She obtained her Juris Doctorate from the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University. Prior to establishing JBM Legal, LLC, Ms. Martinez was in-house counsel to a large International IT company, where she gained extensive experience in employment-based immigration and global immigration. Ms. Martinez’s currently is the managing partner, and her practice focuses on business immigration, family immigration and removal proceedings. JBM Legal, LLC attorneys also provide legal services to the immigrant community in the areas of criminal law, family custody and support law, small business law and litigation-general practice. Ms. Martinez has been asked to present at AILA National Meetings, PBI panels and webinars, Sole and Small Firm Conference, Civil Litigation Conference-PBA, PBA Annual Meeting. Ms. Martinez currently serves/served on various boards: PBA Board of Governors- Secretary of the PBA, Zone 12 Governor, Minority Governor at large, Pennsylvania Industrial Development Board, CASA-Court Appointed Special Advocate Board, ACLU-Pittsburgh Chapter Board, and the ACBA-Allegheny County Bar Association Board. Ms. Martinez, currently serves as the chair of the Pittsburgh Chapter of AILA, and the AILA National Board of Governors 2005-2006, 2022-2023, 2023-2024. Committees: AILA National Membership Committee, Waivers Committee, Hispanic Interest Law Group, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 AILA National Conference Planning Committee, Current Vice-chair Bylaws-PBA, Vice-chair of Immigration Law Committee-PBA, chair of the Diversity Team-PBA, and chair of the Minority Bar Committee- PBA. Ms. Martinez founded the John Alan Meehan Citizenship Institute under the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, which provides pro bono legal representation to applicants for U.S. Citizenship and sponsors a fellow for summer work in a public-interest entity.
Roman Petyk Esq.
Mr. Petyk, a child of World War II refuges, was born and raised in Philadelphia where he graduated from Central High School (227) and earned his B.A. degree in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986, he earned a JD from Northeastern University Law School in Boston. Following 8 years in private practice, Mr. Petyk joined the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania where for 27 years he served as Associate General Counsel and was UPenn’s transactional attorney responsible for major commercial contracts, particularly in regard to real estate, construction and energy matters. Mr. Petyk is a founding member of the Higher Education Real Estate Lawyers organization (HEREL). From 2003 through 2017, he chaired the HEREL Steering Committee and served as convener for HEREL’s annual conferences, including the organization’s inaugural conference at UPenn in 2003, and then again in 2014 and 2017. Mr. Petyk is heavily engaged with the region’s Ukrainian-American community. Since 2014 he has been Board Chair at Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union (“UKRFCU”) a 12,000 member, $415,000,000 institution with 5 branches in the region. He also chairs the Ukrainian Community Foundation of Philadelphia (UCFP) – a charity established and largely funded by the Credit Union. UKRFCU and UCFP share a dual vision of enabling its members to achieve financial security while also supporting the institutions that promote the social cohesion of the local Ukrainian-American Community. Mr. Petyk actively promotes his community’s political engagement through political fundraising and direct advocacy in Washington, DC and locally.
Christina Tershakovec Esq.
Ms. Tershakovec has extensive experience representing a variety of healthcare providers in significant medical malpractice matters. She has worked with clients from pre-complaint stages through trial and has handled all aspects of litigation, including the taking and defending of depositions, investigation of claims, formulation of defenses, negotiation of settlements and assisting at trials. Ms. Tershakovec has also represented defendants in mass tort litigation and has worked with national counsel to manage and coordinate nationwide litigation, and to maintain consistency across varied jurisdictions. Admitted into practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey, she is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and The Johns Hopkins University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. Ms. Tershakovec is an active member of the Philadelphia area Ukrainian community and is fluent in Ukrainian.