ILYA I. BERENSHTEYN, ESQUIRE

Mr. Berenshteyn is a founding partner of the Senter Law Firm. He worked as an associate in the Richmond, Virginia Law firm of Chaplin, Papa & Gonet, where his practice included Consumer Bankruptcy, Collection, Immigration and Civil Litigation. In 2004, Mr. Berenshteyn was appointed as an Assistant Attorney General in the Virginia Office of the Attorney General, Division of Debt Collection where he represented Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia Employment Commission and Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority d/b/a Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in all aspects of collection law. As an adjunct professor at J. S. Reynolds Community College, in 2006, he taught the new bankruptcy law to associate bachelor degree candidates.

Mr. Berenshteyn was born and raised in the Former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in 1990. In 1995, as a first generation Virginian he was naturalized as an American citizen.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Mr. Berenshteyn's practice focuses on Civil Litigation, Real Estate, Natural Resources, Immigration and Collection.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Virginia State Bar
• Virginia Supreme Court
• U.S. Circuit Court for the 6th Circuit
• U.S. Circuit Court for the 4th Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia
• Tennessee State Bar
• Tennessee Supreme Court

EDUCATION

• J.D. - Appalachian School of Law, 2001
• B.A. - Virginia Commonwealth University, 1998, Political Science and Public Administration

LANGUAGES

• Russian