Chicago, Illinois, United States
After law school, I served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sue E. Myerscough of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Springfield Division. I have also worked as a law fellow in the Children and Families Practice Group at LAF (now Legal Aid Chicago), where I focused on education law. Before law school, I was a 2005 Teach For America corps member, working as an elementary school teacher in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation.
• Serve as lead associate in all aspects of civil litigation from initial case assessment, investigation, analysis, and strategy through final disposition and appeal. • Represent clients in a variety of business matters, including internal investigations, governmental enforcement actions, legal malpractice, business torts, contract disputes, insurance disputes, First Amendment-based defamation defenses, and federal and state criminal matters. • Tried a pro bono prisoner’s civil rights matter to a jury in federal court in Springfield, Illinois, securing a verdict for my client and obtaining the largest damages award ever against the State of Illinois’s private prison health care vendor. • Qualified for the Trial Bar of the Northern District of Illinois in July 2018, after less than three years in practice.