Jeff Bukowski graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned his commission as a U.S. Navy officer through Penn’s NROTC program. Mr. Bukowski served on active duty in the U.S. Pacific fleet from 1987 until 1992, when he left active duty to pursue his law degree at the Dickinson School of Law. In 1995, after graduating from law school, Mr. Bukowski began practicing law at Stevens & Lee, one of the largest 200 law firms in the country, where he concentrated on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Mr. Bukowski became a partner/shareholder of Stevens & Lee in 2003 and demonstrated steadily increasing value to the firm. In 2020, Mr. Bukowski joined Mr. Smith to form Smith Bukowski, where he heads the litigation department.