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| Sima is a former federal prosecutor who practices in the areas of commercial litigation, including the protection of intellectual property rights, and white collar criminal defense. |
| Sima served for seven and one-half years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. As an AUSA, Sima represented the United States in prosecuting criminal matters at all procedural levels - including intake, pretrial release, grand jury investigations, jury and bench trials, sentencing, and appeals. She tried more than twenty-five jury trials and handled hundreds of criminal hearings, in addition to overseeing longer-term criminal investigations, and argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. During her time as a federal prosecutor, Sima was detailed to the Office of International Affairs at the Department of Justice, where she handled requests brought pursuant to Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties involving a variety of countries. She was also awarded two Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards. |
| Sima's legal experience includes teaching courses in Trial Advocacy and Advanced Appellate Advocacy at Roger Williams School of Law, in Bristol, Rhode Island, where she was an Adjunct Professor of Law, and as an associate attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine, in Seattle, where her practice focused on communications and antitrust litigation. |
| Sima is a graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in Economics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with General and Department Honors. Sima earned her law degree from Harvard Law School. While in law school, Sima taught undergraduate economics as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College. Prior to attending law school, Sima worked as a Research Assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, in Washington, D.C. |
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