Erica Hines is shareholder at Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., where she serves as firm's Hiring Partner. She is a registered patent attorney who focuses her practice exclusively on intellectual property law, including on strategic IP counseling, due diligence, patent preparation and prosecution (primarily in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials science arts), appeals, and post grant procedures. She also assists clients in protecting trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. She represents a wide range of clients, both domestic and foreign, from individual inventors and startup companies, to universities and Fortune 500 companies.Ms. Hines graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Albany Law School, where she served on the Editorial Board of the Albany Law Review, clerked for GE, and held several research and teaching assistant positions. She received a B.A. degree from Boston College, where she graduated cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Union Graduate College. She also holds a chemistry degree from SUNY Albany, where she focused on organic chemistry, took Ph.D. level classes, and participated in a doctoral research laboratory group synthesizing and studying organofluorine compounds of interest. Ms. Hines is admitted to practice in New York State, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.Ms. Hines is a member of the American Chemical Society, ChIPs- Advancing Women in IP, and the Intellectual Property Owners Association, where she serves on the Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Issues Committee. She is also a Board Member of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Justice For All Board, and is an Elected Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation (the nonprofit, philanthropic arm of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)). She served on the Executive Committee of NYSBA as a Member at Large, and is a past chair of the NYSBA Young Lawyers Section.