About Julie C
Julie C Hancock built a varied academic foundation before entering law. She earned a B.S. in Personality Psychology from Suffolk University in 2004. She completed a study abroad program in International Intellectual Property Law at the University of Tulsa College of Law in 2009. She also holds a Certificate in Entertainment Law from Southwestern Law School, earned in 2010, and received her J.D. from Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in 2012.
Her early professional steps mixed legal work and arts-sector experience. In 2010 she worked as Strategic Partnership Coordinator for AFI FEST, handling sponsor and festival relationships. She spent time as a paralegal at Frith Law Group in 2011. By 2013 she was working as a lawyer at Transamerica, gaining in-house perspective on compliance and corporate legal processes.
In 2017 Hancock established Your Virtual Advocate and has run the practice since then. The firm model emphasizes remote service delivery and aims to provide legal help to clients who need flexible access to counsel. Building a virtual practice required blending technology, client management and traditional legal drafting. Hancock’s background in entertainment law and international intellectual property informs much of that work.
Her memberships sketch the range of her professional interests. She has been a member of the Wisconsin Entertainment Lawyer Association since 2021 and of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 2019. She also belongs to the American Constitution Society (since 2009), the WI LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the De Pere Chamber of Commerce, both joined in 2023. Those ties connect her to local business networks, arts lawyers and national policy conversations.
Hancock is licensed to practice in Wisconsin and Washington. Her education and early festival work give her particular familiarity with entertainment and intellectual property issues. She has combined that specialty knowledge with experience in corporate settings and a virtual-practice model that serves individual and small-business clients.
Colleagues and clients describe her approach as practical and straightforward. She moves between contract review, intellectual property questions and the logistics of serving clients remotely. She continues to operate Your Virtual Advocate, providing virtual legal services and concentrating on entertainment and intellectual property matters, contract review and remote client representation.
