Lori M. Schroeder joined Portal Commerce & Logistics in 2003 as a Senior Consultant and Director of Legal Affairs. Lori has served as a financial analyst with the United States Attorney’s Office, a judicial extern for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, an Assistant County Attorney in Texas, and Program Manager for a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) program for judicial training in Mexico.

Lori graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelors degree from the University of Tampa, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Florida State University, and a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International and Latin American Law from the University of Texas School of Law. She has extensive experience with Brazilian and Latin American law having held several prestigious fellowships for academic research in Brazil including, the National Security Education Program (NSEP) funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Tinker Foundation, and the Tereza Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has written and published several articles on topics including judicial training and development, fiscal responsibility legislation and public finances, and intellectual property protection in the NAFTA.

lori@portal-commerce.com