I’ve had the privilege of working with Shirly on a legal case, in which her academic abilities and legal proficiency needed to be integrated. Shirly has demonstrated an impressive capacity as well as motivation for self learning of state of the art papers in an academic discipline completely unknown for her beforehand. She’s the only attorney I’ve ever worked with, who read each and every paper that was relevant for my expert opinion, as part of her exceptional standards regarding her responsibility as the firm’s IP manager. Shirly is the best team player one can ask for—in her pleasant and soft spoken manner she has the wonderful ability to enable the collaborative work in a group of leading professionals from the legal and academic arenas, together with practitioners. As a team member, Shirly gives the unequivocal impression of not being affected by ego considerations, yet there’s no doubt that her valuable input will be heard and incorporated
