Cala Dossey is an Associate Attorney at Berenzweig Leonard. Prior to joining the firm, she clerked for the Honorable Daniel E. Ortiz on the Virginia Court of Appeals, where she worked on a range of matters, including commercial litigation and contract interpretation. Cala is passionate about many areas of law, with a special affinity for government contracts.

Cala earned her J.D. from George Mason University. During law school, she was a moot court champion, a board member of the Student Bar Association and the American Constitution Society, and she passed the bar during her third year before graduating. Before attending law school, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from American University in Washington, D.C., where she studied Anthropology and French, and was a Fulbright Summer Scholar in Northern Ireland.

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

• “Does the Use of Copyrighted Works to Train AI Qualify as a Fair Use?” The Copyright Alliance, 2023