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WOMEN IN LAW That there are 124 attorneys on this claims, staff layoffs and furloughs, amend- list speaks to the rising influence of ed benefits and safe office reopenings. women in the legal field. These lawyers They are expanding the role of the represent almost every major firm and women’s resource group to make sure type of practice, from fundamentals that young associates get the skills and such as real estate and employment law confidence they need to succeed. And to newer fields such as cybersecurity, they reach beyond their firms to support gaming and cannabis. young girls, law school students, asylum Almost all have been shaken by the seekers and disabled people. With the pandemic but have skillfully adapted, killing of George Floyd and the rise of whether by delivering an oral argument the Black Lives Matter movement, they remotely or by arranging socially dis- are pushing their firms to do more to tanced document signings. They are promote racial justice and equality. advising clients on the onslaught of legal questions that have arisen: insurance By Judith Crown METHODOLOGY: The women featured did not pay to be included. Their profiles were drawn from nomination materials submitted. This list is not comprehensive. It includes only women for whom nominations were sub- mitted and accepted after an editorial review. To qualify for the list, the attorneys must be serving in senior-level roles at a law firm and have practiced at least 10 years. They must have shown the ability to effect change in their roles or practice areas. They serve as role models and have assumed leadership positions in professional or civic organizations.

LISA ACEVEDO MARY ROSE ALEXANDER JENNIFER ASHLEY KATHRYN ASHTON JERALYN BARAN Shareholder Partner Partner Partner Principal Polsinelli Latham & Watkins Salvi Schostok & Pritchard Dentons Chuhak & Tecson

At Polsinelli, Lisa Acevedo chairs Mary Rose Alexander sets strate- Based in Waukegan, trial lawyer Kathryn Ashton serves as At Chuhak & Tecson, Jeralyn the health information privacy gy as global chair of Latham’s en- Jennifer Ashley focuses on per- co-chair of Dentons’ cannabis Baran leads the employment law and security group. is year, vironmental litigation practice. sonal injury, premises liability practice and is a leader of the practice group and publishes a Acevedo has counseled clients In the past 18 months, Alexan- and product liability cases. In rm’s global health care group. newsletter, Employment Focus. through the der secured addition, She lobbied for During the pandemic, a trial victory Ashley serves a cannabis spe- pandemic, she guiding them for Pennsyl- as an arbitrator cialty, and the has counseled on data pro- vania-based in Lake County group became employers on tection issues Consol Energy for municipal a stand-alone stay-at-home as they moved in an oil and and small- practice last orders, fur- employees to gas industry claims matters. year. Ashton loughs, layos, work remote- dispute. She In the past 18 advises canna- return-to-work ly. She also is resolved a months, she bis clients in orders and advising on series of class has settled due diligence social distanc- privacy requirements in testing, actions for a large private owner 57 cases. Before joining Salvi and regulatory reviews, risk as- ing requirements. She has been the use of contact tracing apps of timberlands. And she served Schostok & Prichard in 2012, sessments and investment trans- at Chuhak & Tecson for nearly 24 and return-to-work procedures. as lead trial counsel defending Ashley was an associate at an actions. She has helped Canadi- years and was named a prin- Earlier, Acevedo expanded the Dow Chemical in allegations of insurance defense rm. In 2014, an companies seeking entry to cipal in 1999. Baran has been rm’s health privacy work out- PCE contamination and Clorox she became Salvi’s second the U.S. cannabis market. From instrumental in Chuhak’s annual side the U.S. to include Canada, in a case involving plastics in female partner. rough her pro 2014 to 2019, Ashton was chair Women Helping Women event, the E.U. and Asia Pacic. She the ocean. As global chair of bono work with Prairie State of Dentons’ U.S. health care which combines service and net- joined Polsinelli in 2013, left Latham’s Women Enriching Legal Services, Ashley helped practice, overseeing 50 lawyers. working for female attorneys and for a year and rejoined in 2016. Business Committee, Alexander a single mother who was being During that time, she closed female entrepreneurs. She has Acevedo has written articles and leads eorts to promote women evicted nd a new home. She dozens of nancings. Ashton has also been central to the rm’s papers on data privacy issues in law and business, including recently was named chair of the served as a pro bono lawyer with membership in the Technology and has spoken on the topic at a one-on-one coaching pro- Lake County Bar Association’s Chicago Volunteer Legal Ser- & Manufacturing Association, professional conferences. She’s a gram with business develop- civil trials and appeals commit- vices, acting as guardian ad litem which provides training, support member of the DePaul Universi- ment coaches and a multiday tee. Since 2016, she has been on to represent the best interests of and advocacy for its members. ty College of Law Dean’s Council nancial analysis program for the board of the Lake County a child. She also represents Twist Since 2005, Baran has been an advisory board and the Hispanic clients through the University of Bar Foundation and is on the Out Cancer, a nonprot that active member of the Women in Lawyers Association of Illinois. California, Berkley. She is on the fundraising committee. supports cancer survivors. TMA committee and worked to board of counselors for nonprof- develop grant and scholarship it Equal Justice Works. opportunities for women.

WOMEN IN PRIVATE PRACTICE Partners 22.7% 38 percent Equity partners 19.0% of people in the legal profession in 2018 were women. 200 largest law firms managing partners 22.0% 30 percent Associates 45.9% of general counsels at Fortune 500 companies in 2018 were women. For firms in the Fortune 501-1,000, Summer associates 48.7% 23.8 percent were women. Source: American Bar Association’s “A current glance at women in the law,” April 2019 16 SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 • CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS

JANA COHEN BARBE MARGARET BATTERSBY LAUREL BELLOWS Partner BLACK Managing principal Dentons Partner Bellows Law Group As leader of Dentons’ tax-ori- Levin & Perconti Managing principal Laurel Bel- ‘How we practice ented investments practice, Personal injury attorney Marga- lows counsels senior executives, Jana Cohen Barbe and her team ret Battersby Black is known for private-equity rms, family busi- represent large nancial institu- her work on behalf of individuals nesses and corporations on em- tions and insurance companies and families involving nursing ployment and severance agree- law has been in connection home abuse ments, internal with their and negligence investigations social investing and for having and disputes. turned on its head’ and funding secured multi- She also advises of a ordable ple million-dol- entrepreneurs. As a young lawyer, Jana Cohen Barbe took a job as general housing and lar settlements During the counsel at resholds, a nonprot that provides housing community for clients. pandemic, she and support for people living with mental illness and sub- development. During the has helped stance-use disorders. at experience “sensitized me,” Barbe Barbe is a pandemic, she businesses says, to the toll of mental illness and the growing problems proponent of has brought survive and in the legal profession as evidenced by burnout, substance changes in the legal profession a half-dozen lawsuits involving adapt. Bellows particularly has and alcohol abuse, and suicide. In an article on Law.com to improve the mental health COVID-19-related deaths of supported female entrepreneurs last year, the Dentons partner wrote that requiring lawyers of lawyers. In a letter published nursing home residents. Last through the Women’s Business to take vacation, spreading work among teams and mov- on Law.com last year, Barbe year, Battersby Black settled Development Center. Recently, ing away from billable-hour targets would go far toward argued that the industry needs the most cases in Illinois over Bellows was appointed liaison relieving stress in the profession. to revamp its billable-hour $500,000, with 24 settlements counsel in a class action against structure, change performance above that level. Battersby Black Navistar, negotiating a favorable CRAIN’S: How did you experience these stresses? metrics and look at compen- advises younger lawyers through settlement for truck owners BARBE: As a young lawyer, there was the pressure to sation in a di erent way. She the Women’s Bar Association of whose vehicle engines mal- please the partners and the pressure to bill hours. As a is a board member and past Illinois’ lawyer-to-lawyer men- functioned. She speaks often on partner, and a successful partner by most standards, it president of nonprot resh- toring program and through her leadership, negotiation, supply surprisingly (at least to me) became harder, not easier, olds, which supports people alma mater, Chicago-Kent Col- chain, executive compensation because there was never a moment when I could take my living with mental illness. Barbe lege of Law. She co-founded the and solutions to human traf- foot o the accelerator. I don’t think I have ever taken a helped launch Dentons’ wom- women’s caucus of the Illinois cking. As past president of the vacation where I didn’t work. On some vacations, I would en’s mentorship initiative to Trial Lawyers Association and or- Chicago Bar Association, Bellows wake at 4 a.m. so I could complete my work before anyone create opportunities for younger ganized the rst continuing legal founded the Alliance for Women, else was up. female lawyers at the rm. She education seminar featuring which works for equality of pay is chair of the Catalyst board of leading female lawyers. Battersby and opportunity in law rms. She Technology didn’t make it easier? advisers. Black is on the ITLA executive is on the global board of the In- I love that technology enabled me to stay in contact committee and was elected trea- ternational Women’s Forum and with the oce while attending my children’s sporting surer for 2020-21. chairs its governance committee. events, but I hate that technology meant I had to stay in contact “LAW FIRMS OUGHT with the oce while TO EMPHASIZE A TEAM BETH BERG CATHY A. BIRKELAND GAIL BLEY attending my chil- dren’s sporting events. APPROACH RATHER THAN Partner Chicago office managing partner Partner It stopped being Sidley Austin Latham & Watkins Gould & Ratner volitional at some THE INDIVIDUAL. . . .IF e most senior female partner As managing partner, Cathy A. Gail Bley is a partner in Gould & point and became in Sidley’s Chicago corporate Birkeland sets business strategy Ratner’s tax planning and com- expected. YOU HAVE A TEAM, THE group, Beth Berg advises public for the 185-lawyer oce. She’s pliance and estate planning and WORLD DOESN’T COME TO company boards and executives also a partner in the rm’s capi- wealth-transfer practices. She’s What is the precise on mergers and acquisitions, tal markets practice. During the also a certied nancial planner. problem with the AN END WHEN SOMEONE governance pandemic, she She counsels current legal busi- and disclosure, has helped cli- clients on tax ness model? TAKES A VACATION OR with a focus ents structure and nancial We sell ourselves by GOES ON A MEDICAL on takeover transactions to issues related the hour, and that defense and raise capital to to acquisitions, places undue and LEAVE.” shareholder sustain their investments, unhealthy emphasis activism. Last businesses. In mergers, on the length of time year, she led April, she ad- strategic spent working rather than on the eciency of that time. the team that vised Hyatt Ho- alliances and You could bid and bill on a per-project basis, or based on represented tels on a $2.9 joint ventures. the size of a deal or on the results. Also, law rms ought to Georgia biotechnology rm billion bank and bond nancing. Bley also advises entrepreneurs emphasize a team approach rather than the individual, MiMedx Group in two simul- She worked with underwriters in and family and other closely just as accounting rms bid on an audit and submit their taneous proxy ghts. Earlier, connection with the July initial held businesses including real team. If you have a team, the world doesn’t come to an she represented Elaine Wynn public o ering of Texas-based estate and investment partner- end when someone takes a vacation or goes on a medical in her highly public ght to Vital Farms, a producer of ships. Recently, she has handled leave. change Wynn Resorts’ board pasture-raised eggs and butter. transactions focused on tax, and governance practices. Other She advised underwriters in wealth transfer and succession Is there change afoot? highlights include the sales of connection with IPOs of plant- planning, including charitable e impetus for change is here. COVID gave us a palpable Beam, Tellabs and Keurig Green based food company Beyond trusts, private foundations, life lesson in family values and priorities, the need for greater Mountain and the spino of Meat and Chicago social media insurance planning and other balance. It taught us we can be productive from home. We NiSource’s Columbia Pipeline management software company approaches to multigenera- are surviving without face time, which was always import- Group. Berg led Sidley’s commit- Sprout Social. Birkeland also has tional wealth transfer. She has ant in the legal profession and that disadvantaged women. tee on the promotion and reten- led Latham’s Chicago Taskforce been active in Gould & Ratner How we practice law has been turned on its head in the tion of women, which set policy for the Commitment to Racial Opportunities for Women, a pro- past ve months. I don’t think there’s any going back. on maternity leave. Last year, she Justice & Equality, dedicated gram that helps female clients was appointed to a six-year term to ghting racial injustice and and contacts network with the What will it take for real reform? on the American Bar Association promoting equality through pro rm’s female attorneys. She’s a Management has to make the leap. It will take two or three committee on corporate laws. bono e orts. member of the Chicago Estate big law rms to come forward and present a transitional Planning Council. plan to move away from the billable hour. Once that hap- pens, the industry will follow. 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AMY M. BLUMENTHAL CARYN BORG BREEN LEAH BRUNO PATRICIA CAIN RACHEL CANTOR Managing partner Founding partner Office managing partner Partner Partner Gould & Ratner Green Griffith & Borg-Breen Dentons Neal Gerber Eisenberg Kirkland & Ellis At Gould & Ratner, Amy M. Blu- Intellectual property attorney As Chicago o ce managing Patricia Cain leads the employee At Kirkland & Ellis, Rachel Can- menthal is a managing partner Caryn Borg-Breen is a founding partner, Leah Bruno sets strate- benets and executive compen- tor focuses on the tax aspects of and member of the management partner of the boutique rm. gic goals and local culture. She’s sation practice group. During the complex business transactions, committee. She has 35 years of She represents plaintis and also a partner in the litigation pandemic, Cain has published including mergers, acquisitions, experience and was a longtime defendants in patent litigation practice group. Recent cases employee benets updates, buyouts and restructurings. chair of the real in the pharma- have ranged explaining how In the past estate practice. ceutical and life from recover- employers can 18 months, In the past two sciences elds. ing a multi- provide tax- Cantor worked years, Blu- In April, Borg- million-dollar free disaster on more than menthal has Breen helped collectible car relief payments 30 transactions handled real lead the way to a merger to employ- with a value estate matters in the virtual dispute in the ees and how of more than including a practice of IP cannabis eld. employees may $15 billion. national media litigation by As part of her access their Recent clients company becoming one pro bono prac- retirement have included needing new Chicago o ce of the rst attorneys to make oral tice, Bruno led the submission of savings this year. She recently Madison Dearborn Partners, space, an entrepreneurial family arguments by telephone before amicus briefs in two matters be- advised a public company on a Wind Point Partners and Accel o ce investing in restaurants the Federal Circuit Court, using fore the U.S. Supreme Court on new equity-incentive plan and KKR. She has participated in in the Midwest and Southeast, the court’s conference call sys- reproductive rights. In a recently compliance with COVID-19 speaking engagements covering and a bus builder expanding its tem during its rst week to argue decided case on abortion clinics legislation and regulations. federal tax issues at seminars manufacturing facility in Cali- a case. Borg-Green launched the in Louisiana, Bruno submitted Recently, she counseled on the and conferences, including the fornia. Blumenthal is immediate rm in 2015 with fellow part- a brief on behalf of 67 social redesign of a compensation Tax Executives Institute, Chica- past president of CREW Chica- ners from Leydig Voit & Mayer, scientists providing scientic program and advised a pension go Tax Club and the Practising go, an organization for women where she worked and practiced research that demonstrates neg- plan on its hedge fund invest- Law Institute. is year, she in commercial real estate. She for nearly 14 years. She helped ative consequences of barriers ments. Cain began her career became chair of the Universi- helps lead the rm’s attorney develop a mentorship program, to accessing reproductive health when there were few female ty of Chicago Tax Conference mentoring program as well as recruiting and retaining a diverse care. For three years, Bruno was lawyers at law rms and was planning committee. Cantor is a Gould & Ratner Opportunities pool of science-focused attor- co-chair of the committee that instrumental in establishing member of the committee that for Women, a program that helps neys. She has been a panelist on evaluates the progress of associ- her rm’s rst maternity-leave handles performance reviews for female clients and contacts IP issues at law conferences. ates. She sits on the board of the policy. Cain was co-chair of Neal the rm’s junior partners, and network with the rm’s female Illinois chapter of the American Gerber Eisenberg’s Women’s she participates in Kirkland’s attorneys. Civil Liberties Union. Network Leadership Team and Women in Leadership Initiative. currently serves as a member She’s a board member of the of the diversity and inclusion American Jewish Council. committee.

SUSAN CAPRA KARA CENAR SUSAN CHARLES LINDA COBERLY LINSEY COHEN Partner Officer Partner Chicago managing partner Real estate practice chair Clifford Law Office Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Troutman Pepper Winston & Strawn Gould & Ratner Susan Capra handles medical Intellectual property trial attor- Environmental partner Susan Linda Coberly manages Winston Linsey Cohen assumed chair- and hospital negligence cases. ney Kara Cenar handles cases Charles advises clients on envi- & Strawn’s oldest and largest manship of Gould & Ratner’s Since 2010, Capra has worked on involving copyrights, patents and ronmental due-diligence matters o ce, serves on the execu- real estate practice in February. 34 obstetrical and gynecological trademarks. Last year, she suc- and structuring transactions to tive committee and chairs the In the past year, Cohen negotiat- cases, 31 of which have resulted cessfully led a multimillion-dol- minimize or apportion liabilities. appellate and critical motions ed leases for a discount super- in settlements lar copyright She counsels practice. In market chain in and verdicts infringement clients on six months, its nationwide over $1 million, jury trial to ver- environmental Coberly won expansion. She and 13 that dict involving permitting four appeals helped one of have resulted the unlicensed and enforce- in four dier- the nation’s in settlements use of artwork ment matters. ent federal largest drug- and verdicts and graphics In the past courts. She led store retailers over $5 million. for video-reel 18 months, representation in its store Before becom- casino slot ma- Charles has of the United development ing an attorney, chine games—a worked on Network for through leas- Capra was a pediatric nurse at case that’s signicant for artwork 200 real estate acquisition and Organ Sharing in defense of a ing, acquisition and repurposing Children’s Memorial Hospital, creators. Cenar also has handled development projects collective- new, benecial policy for liver assets. And she has represented working in the neurosurgical high-prole cases related to ly valued at more than $1 billion. transplantation. After helping to California coee chain Philz Cof- unit and operating room. She popular musical works, includ- Recently, she represented an bring Illinois’ historic ratication fee in its nationwide expansion, attended DePaul University ing the successful defense of investor group bidding on a of the Equal Rights Amendment including its four Chicago-area College of Law School at night two $60 million claims involving portion of a 100-year-old electric in 2018, Coberly has pivoted locations that opened last year. and joined Cliord in 1989. She digital music. Before joining generation plant. Charles joined to the national ERA campaign. Cohen joined Gould & Ratner in recently handled a birth trauma Greensfelder in 2015, Cenar was Troutman in 2017 from Lath- She serves as chair of the ERA 2009 from Schain Burney Ross & case that resulted in a settlement a partner at Bryan Cave. She’s rop Gage, now Lathrop GPM. Coalition’s legal task force and Citron, where she was a partner. of more than $7 million. She also a founding member of Chicago She is a member of Troutman’s participated in congressional She helps lead Gould & Ratner worked on two gynecological Women in Intellectual Property Women’s Leadership & Growth briengs for House and Senate Opportunities for Women, a pro- negligence cases that settled for and a founding charter member Network and co-chair of the staers. Coberly was instrumen- gram that helps female clients more than $5 million. She volun- of the Intellectual Property In- Women in Law Empowerment tal in implementing the rm’s and contacts network with the teers at the Norwood Crossing stitute. She’s also a senior fellow Forum’s Chicago market. She gender-neutral family leave poli- rm’s female attorneys. Last year Senior Living Community, the of Litigation Counsel of America was a silver medalist in the 1991 cy. She is on the board of United she joined the board of nonprot USO of Illinois and Feed My and has held leadership posi- Pan American Games in Havana Way of Metro Chicago and is a ZCenter, which supports survi- Starving Children. tions with the National Associa- and a gold medalist in the 1992 vice president of the Goodman vors of sexual abuse. tion of Women Business Owners. National Collegiate Women’s eatre board. Rowing Championships. CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS • SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 19

SHAYNA COOK RACHEL COWEN PAMELA COX TIFFANY CUNNINGHAM BRYNA DAHLIN Partner Partner, employment Partner Partner Partner Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan McDermott Will & Emery Marshall Gerstein Perkins Coie Benesch & Baum Labor and employment attorney As chair of Marshall Gerstein’s At Perkins Coie, Tiany Cun- Bryna Dahlin represents cli- Trial lawyer Shayna Cook rep- Rachel Cowen handles collective IP transactions practice, Pamela ningham is a patent litigator ents in the cannabis industry, resents Fortune 500 clients in bargaining and labor arbitrations Cox structures collaboration counseling Fortune 500 technol- including growers, retailers, commercial disputes and prod- and represents nancial services agreements and devises con- ogy companies including Intel manufacturers and investors. uct liability and patent cases. companies and professional en- tracts to scale and produce and Microsoft. She is a member Recently, she handled the acqui- She is on the gineering rms products. She of the rm’s sition of client management in unfair-com- specializes in executive CannaRegs, a committee at petition cases. life science, committee and cannabis legal the trial bou- She counsels pharma, information database. And tique and is the employers biotech and governance Dahlin has rm’s hiring, facing union medical devic- advisory board. represented mentoring organizing es. Cox teams Cunningham licensed can- and wellness activity and with in-house recently led nabis retailers partner. Clients picketing and technology a 10-person and cultiva- include Merck, has successfully transfer teams team in a tors before Bayer and AbbVie. As part of her tried cases before the National to carry out licensing strategies multipatent infringement suit state agencies. Dahlin was a pro bono work, Cook repre- Labor Relations Board. Recently, that ultimately bene t patients regarding computer network se- litigation partner at Winston & sented 3M in its quest to quash the Nature Conservancy retained suering from diseases. During curity, and she was lead counsel Strawn before leaving to focus a COVID-19 price-gouging Cowen to investigate allegations the pandemic, she has teamed in a nine-patent case related to on cannabis. She was a partner scheme. Cook and her team won of sexual harassment and work- with in-house counsels to ad- functionalities in smartphones at Flener IP & Business Law, a an injunction against a medical place misconduct by three senior dress an unprecedented number or tablets. She joined Perkins women-owned rm with a can- supply company oering falsely ocials at the nonpro t. Cowen of force majeure situations. She Coie in 2014 from Kirkland & nabis focus, before joining Ben- aliated 3M N95 respirators at joined McDermott Will & Emery advised clients on their work on Ellis, where she was a partner esch last year. Dahlin is on the inated prices. Cook led Gold- in 2018 from DLA Piper, where assays to detect COVID as well handling biotechnology, phar- steering committee of Benesch man Ismail to join the Law Firm she was a partner in charge of the as on vaccines. One genetic tool maceutical and computer sci- B-Sharp, which supports female Antiracism Alliance, a group Chicago employment group. At she has worked on has proven ence cases. Cunningham serves attorneys. And she is pro bono committed to advancing eorts DLA she handled employment eective in treating models of as chair of the Perkins Coie counsel for Chicago NORML, against systemic racism. And she discrimination and wrongful- diabetes, muscular dystrophy Chicago diversity and inclusion part of the national organization spearheaded the rm’s Amer- termination cases in federal and and acute kidney disease. Last committee and is a member for the reform of marijuana laws. ican Bar Association wellness state courts. She worked pro year, Cox co-founded the Wom- of the Women’s Forum. Since She is an adjunct professor at pledge, including a commit- bono with Northwestern Law en in Licensing Alliance, part of 2014, she has helped lead the Chicago-Kent College of Law ment to help the advancement School students on the case of the Licensing Executives Society rm’s participation in ChIPs, a and a founding member of the of female lawyers by balancing a man who was wrongfully con- International. She leads Marshall nonpro t that connects women Illinois Cannabis Bar Associa- family and work obligations. victed of murder when he was a Gerstein’s Women’s Group. in technology and law. tion. teenager.

Congratulations to Kim Walberg on being named to the 2020 Notable Women in Law list by Crain’s Chicago Business.

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C. ELIZABETH DARKE MEENAKSHI DATTA KIMBERLY DEBEERS GINA ARQUILLA HEATHER DELGADO Member Partner Partner DEBONI Partner Dykema Gossett Sidley Austin Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Managing partner Barnes & Thornburg As professional personnel mem- At Sidley Austin, Meenakshi Flom Romanucci & Blandin Heather Delgado specializes in ber, C. Elizabeth Darke manag- Datta is co-leader of the rm’s Kimberly deBeers heads the As managing partner, Gina Ar- the health care sector, assisting es associates, senior and sta global health care practice, with M&A/corporate group in Skad- quilla DeBoni is responsible for providers and entrepreneurs in attorneys, and paralegals. She 26 lawyers in Chicago, Washing- den’s Chicago oce. Recently, quality assurance as well as mar- mergers and joint ventures and works with Dykema’s directors ton, D.C., and London. She also DeBeers represented O’Reilly keting and legislative outreach. establishing physician manage- and execu- leads the Chica- Automotive, A personal ment compa- tive board in go health care an operator injury attor- nies. During recommending group. During of 5,500 retail ney, DeBoni is the pandem- and promot- the pandemic, stores, in its skilled at get- ic, Delgado ing policies Datta has coun- expansion ting high-pro- has helped a ecting 140 seled clients on into Mexico. le cases o hospitals and rm attorneys, COVID-19 mat- She advised the ground. other providers as well as ters, including private-equi- e rm is develop poli- compensation crisis manage- ty rm Black representing cies to address and bonuses ment, public Diamond restaurants and issues posed for nonmember attorneys and health reporting, privacy and Capital Management in acquir- businesses that have su ered by COVID-19. Earlier, Delgado paralegals. She proposed a new risk mitigation. She advises on ing control of Empire Generator. losses due to the pandemic. handled purchases of physician billable- and nonbillable-hours drug pricing, health care reform, In addition, she represented the It’s also representing proper- practices by hospitals. She ad- requirement for associates and fraud and abuse compliance, and Center for Diagnostic Imaging, a ty owners who su ered from vised a health care system on the senior attorneys that was ap- privacy issues. She also supports provider of outpatient diagnostic ooding in Midland, Mich., after process of building and opening proved last year. Darke conducts drug and device product launch- imaging services, in its sale to a dam broke in May. Earlier, the a rehabilitation hospital. And retreats at which she trains new es. Last year, Datta managed Wellspring Capital Management. rm represented victims of the she advised a physician group in associates and mentors midlevel regulatory aspects of Fortive’s At Skadden, deBeers is a mem- 2016 Pulse Nightclub shoot- the formation of an orthopedic attorneys. She also serves on the $2.7 billion purchase of Johnson ber of the steering committee for ing in Orlando, Fla. DeBoni’s hospital and its lease to a health diversity and inclusion com- & Johnson’s medical sterilization private equity, has been serving leadership on a sex-tracking care system. Beyond transac- mittee. Darke’s legal practice unit and advised a Fortive sub- as the attorney development case contributed to passage of tions, she provides legal advice focuses on real estate lending, sidiary in its acquisition of hos- partner and is a member of a federal law cracking down on such as the drafting of HIPAA leasing, acquisitions and dispo- pital software developer Censis. the hiring committee. She has trackers. DeBoni began her policies and procedures. Delga- sitions. Recently, she negotiated Datta is a frequent speaker at life provided pro bono assistance career in insurance defense law do joined Barnes & ornburg a 61,000-square-foot commer- sciences conferences. She is on to Chicago nonprots including and joined Romanucci & Blan- in 2009 from McGuire Woods, cial lease on behalf of a property the board of the March of Dimes the Eleanor Foundation and din 10 years ago. Last year, she where she was a partner. She is owner in downtown Chicago. Chicago chapter. Ladder Up. DeBeers speaks and spoke on career development at president of the Service League And she closed two deals for a leads programs at the Practising an International Women’s Day of Northwest Indiana. national banking client totaling Law Institute on securities issues panel in Chicago. more than $100 million. relating to mergers and acquisi- tions.

GEORGIA LOUKAS BETSY DERWINSKI TARA DEVINE BETH DICKSTEIN AMY DOEHRING DEMEROS Shareholder Lake County office managing Partner Partner Equity partner Brinks Gilson & Lione partner Sidley Austin Akerman Thompson Coburn Patent specialist Betsy Der- Salvi Schostok & Pritchard At Sidley Austin, Beth Dickstein At Akerman, Amy Doehring winski focuses on matters in the Oce Managing Partner Tara is co-leader of the rm’s em- co-chairs the rm’s probate and Estate planning adviser Georgia medical device, athletic apparel Devine oversees operations in ployee benets and executive duciary litigation practice and Loukas Demeros draws on her and sports equipment indus- Salvi Law’s Waukegan oce. compensation practice, which chairs the resource group Wom- background as a CPA to give tries. Derwinski manages the A specialist in personal injury, has grown in numbers and ge- en’s Initiative Network in Chica- businesses patent portfolio Devine over ography under go. In January and individ- for one of the the past year her tenure. 2019, Doehring uals a holistic largest athletic obtained more She represents tried a month- assessment of apparel and than $1.5 mil- pension trusts long bench their assets, equipment lion on behalf and investment trial in Illinois, tax liabilities, manufacturers. of nursing managers, ad- represent- estate planning She secured home clients. vising them on ing the Carle and corporate patent protec- is year, she ERISA ducia- Foundation legal needs. tion for a large obtained a ry duties and in its decade- She advises medical device $1 million the marketing long battle to multigenerational families on manufacturer for innovations settlement for a man who had to of investment products to retire- restore the revoked property tax wealth-transfer issues and has in cardiac and vessel repair, undergo surgery and immuno- ment plans. During the pandem- exemptions for properties used led tax work and corporate resulting in advances in surgical therapy after a delayed cancer ic, Dickstein has advised organi- by its nonprot Carle Founda- restructuring for family-owned procedures and outcomes. And diagnosis. A few months earlier, zations on how to implement the tion Hospital in Urbana. e businesses. Demeros co-pre- Derwinski won patent protection she won a $3 million medical provisions of the federal CARES case could a ect other nonprot sented to the Chicago Estate for devices used in reproductive malpractice settlement. Devine Act, including whether to give hospitals in Illinois. She leads Planning Council on the federal health procedures, including joined Salvi in 2004 as an asso- employees access to benets litigation teams in nine cases in SECURE Act, which is designed technology used for in vitro fertil- ciate and became the rm’s rst under their retirement plans. Texas related to chemical plant to aid Americans’ ability to save ization procedures and post- female partner in 2011. In 2018, She’s the rst Sidley woman on res following Hurricane Harvey for retirement. She’s a member partum care. Derwinski joined she was promoted to manag- a reduced-hours schedule to be and in three cases in Los Angeles of the rm’s Women’s Initiative Brinks Gilson in 2012 from Cook ing partner of the Lake County promoted to partner with her related to wildres. Doehring Steering Committee and co- Alex, another intellectual prop- oce. is year, Devine was class. As vice chair of Sidley’s joined Akerman in 2018 from chair of the initiative’s busi- erty rm. She is on the Brinks elected second vice president of retirement plan committee, McDermott Will & Emery, where ness development committee, diversity and associate evalua- the Lake County Bar Association. she helps Sidley lawyers and she headed the Chicago litiga- overseeing networking events tion committees. And she has She is on the board of manag- sta prepare for their nancial tion practice group for three for female attorneys and clients. served on the board of managers ers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers futures. She has served on Amer- years. She is on the leadership Demeros is a legal adviser to for the Intellectual Property Law Association. ican Bar Association committees board of the National Immigrant the Greek Orthodox Metropo- Association of Chicago, a role in on employee benets and execu- Justice Center. lis of Chicago and an ocer of which she organized events. tive compensation. the Hellenic Bar Association of Illinois. CRAIN’S 2020 NOTABLE WOMEN IN LAW

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LAUREN NORRIS ALEXIS CRAWFORD KASEY DUNLAP CHRISTINA EGAN MARCI EISENSTEIN DONAHUE DOUGLAS Partner Chicago office managing partner Managing partner Partner Partner Akerman McGuireWoods Schiff Hardin K&L Gates K&L Gates Litigation partner Kasey Dunlap Former federal prosecutor e rst female managing As a partner in the antitrust, Partner Alexis Crawford Doug- chairs the rm’s resource group, Christina Egan manages the partner at Schi Hardin, Marci competition and trade regula- las specializes in trademark, Women’s Initiative Network, and Chicago oce and is a member Eisenstein oversees 435 lawyers tion practice group, Lauren Nor- copyright, domain name, social serves on the rm’s board as well of the international rm’s board and employees across seven ris Donahue counsels corporate media and other intellectual as its Philanthropic Council. She of partners. She practices in oces. During the pandemic, clients and property issues. is co-leader of the areas of Eisenstein has senior execu- At the start of the Wells Fargo government provided re- tives through the COVID-19 client team. investigations sources to help government crisis, she Dunlap rep- and white-col- attorneys meet investigations counseled a resents bank- lar litigation. COVID-related and class-ac- client develop- ing, nancial Egan played a challenges and tion litigation, ing ventilators institution and pivotal role on added policies particularly in on reinstating broker-dealer the McGuire- to help working antitrust, cartel lawfully used clients in FDIC, Woods team parents. Last and trade domain names SEC, FINRA that secured year, Schi regulation. Early in the pan- that had been suspended. Re- and private litigation matters. the March 2019 dismissal of Hardin achieved Manseld demic, she co-authored a Law cently she represented a spirits As chair of Akerman’s women’s criminal charges against former Certied Plus status, reaching at 360 article, “Mitigating Antitrust company in a dispute on bottle group, Dunlap has led initia- U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois least 30 percent diverse lawyer Risks With DOJ-FTC Pandemic design. is year, Douglas was tives to support colleagues who after a highly publicized feder- representation in its leadership Guidance.” She also published elected to the board of manag- are working remotely during al case focused on his alleged ranks. Eisenstein led the rm’s alerts on antitrust developments ers of the Chicago Bar Associa- the pandemic. She has chal- misuse of campaign and gov- class-actions practice, defending and guidance in light of the pan- tion. She also chaired Women’s lenged management to evaluate ernment funds. Before joining corporations against more than demic. Recently, she represent- History Month programming for policies that aect women, such McGuireWoods in 2012, Egan 100 challenges. To give young- ed a Japanese capacitor manu- the association. Last year, she as parental leave, ex time and was an assistant U.S. attorney for er partners greater ownership facturer and its U.S. subsidiary in co-chaired the association’s rst fertility benets. And Dunlap has the Northern District of Illinois and opportunity to lead, she an antitrust class action. And she Working Women’s Legal Summit. collaborated with management for 10 years. She tried more than created deputy practice group represented a former StarKist Douglas played a key role in K&L on increasing hiring, retention 20 cases involving racketeering, leadership roles. Since 2019, 57 executive in a criminal antitrust Gates’ expansion of parental and advancement of attorneys public corruption, fraud, narcot- percent of the deputy practice investigation. Donahue joined leave in 2018 and worked on a of color. She joined Akerman in ics tracking and gang activity. group leaders appointed have K&L Gates in 2009 from Bell committee to implement a ramp- 2014 from Ulmer & Berne, where Egan teaches RICO law and been women. Eisenstein speaks Boyd & Lloyd. She has handled down, ramp-up program. She she was a partner for four years. previously taught trial advocacy regularly at legal conferences pro bono assignments for the joined K&L Gates as an associate She speaks often on workplace at Northwestern Pritzker School about law rm strategy and National Immigrant Justice Cen- in 2011. diversity. of Law. the importance of broadening ter, the Illinois Torture Inquiry & opportunities for professionals Relief Commission and Chicago with diverse backgrounds. Volunteer Legal Services.

LINDA FINE MEG GEORGE DEBORAH GERSH CAROL V. GILDEN JEANNE GILLS Co-founder Chicago office managing partner Health care partner Partner Partner Buckley Fine Akerman Ropes & Gray Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll Foley & Lardner Estate planning attorney Linda As head of the Chicago oce, Deborah Gersh is co-chair of Carol V. Gilden is a partner in Partner Jeanne Gills is vice chair Fine recently launched Buckley Meg George oversees a team the health care practice and Cohen Milstein’s securities of Foley’s national intellectual Fine Law with partner David of 90 lawyers and sta and is co-leader of the health care and litigation and investor protection property department and sits Buckley. e new rm has 28 responsible for recruitment, di- life sciences industry group. She practice group. She represents on the management committee. lawyers and sta. Fine will chair versity and talent development. also participates in the rm’s public pension funds, Taft-Hart- She advises clients on IP strategy the estate plan- She’s a member data, privacy ley pension and serves as ning and estate of Akerman’s and cyberse- and health and lead trial coun- settlement executive curity group. welfare funds, sel in patent, groups. Fine committee is year, and other trade secret, had practiced and chair of she’s working institutional trademark, at Kelleher & the rm’s Well with clients investors in copyright and Buckley, which Being Coun- on COVID-19 securities class unfair-compe- she joined cil. George issues. Gersh actions and tition litigation. in 2007 and specializes in advised the other litiga- As one of the helped grow real estate and providers of tion. Gilden few rst-chair from a single oce with eight municipal law regulating land Advocate Aurora Health on recently was co-lead counsel Black patent litigators in the attorneys to a 25-attorney rm use and zoning. During the pan- obtaining temporary licenses to representing Teamsters Local country—and as a Black female with three Illinois locations. is demic, George has worked with practice across Illinois, Wiscon- 719 Pension Plan in a sharehold- equity partner—Gills has been year, Fine resolved a $5 million retail clients to revise building sin and Indiana. She is on the er class action against Credit a frequent commentator on trust administration that almost interior layouts for new spacing team advising Northwestern Suisse. A $15.5 million settle- diversity in the legal profession. headed to court. Last year, she requirements to ensure safety Memorial Healthcare on its ment was inked in July. Gilden “All of us should feel terrible helped a family with succession of employees and customers. reporting obligations and its is representing pension plans about Black women making planning for its $80 million med- Before joining Akerman in 2017, phased reopening of buildings. in an action seeking to hold the up less than 1 percent of the ical packaging plant. She speaks George was a partner at Neal She advised Advocate Aurora on board of Google parent Alphabet equity partners in law rms,” she often on estate planning topics & Leroy specializing in zoning a joint venture with Taiwanese accountable for years of gen- wrote in a June article. Gills is at events hosted by banks, nan- and land use. During her tenure technology giant Foxconn that der discrimination and sexual the founder and former chair of cial institutions and professional there, she served on the Chicago consolidates data and uses pre- harassment cover-ups. Gilden Foley’s African American anity organizations. She’s a member Sustainability Task Force, which dictive analytics and AI machine was the rst female president group. She’s a founding member of the DuPage County Estate drafted the city’s sustainable learning to personalize health of the National Association of the Black Patent Network and Planning Council as well as the development policy. She is on care. Gersh is a member of the of Shareholder & Consumer Chicago Black Partners Alliance. WealthCounsel Illinois Forum. the board of the Peggy Notebaert rm’s Women’s Forum. And she Attorneys, the association for Nature Museum. co-leads the pro bono repre- securities class-action attorneys, sentation of Heartland Health and currently is on the executive Outreach. committee. CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS • SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 23

PAULA GOEDERT SUSAN GOLDENBERG MYOKA GOODIN STACIE R. HARTMAN KATRINA HAUSFELD Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Barnes & Thornburg Neal Gerber Eisenberg Locke Lord Steptoe & Johnson DLA Piper Paula Goedert serves as chair of At Neal Gerber Eisenberg, Susan Intellectual property attorney At Steptoe & Johnson, Stacie R. Katrina “Katie” Hausfeld re- the Barnes & ornburg associ- Goldenberg is a partner in the Myoka Goodin is chair of the Hartman co-chairs the nancial cently was promoted to partner ations and foundations practice private wealth department rm’s litigation support com- services group, which compris- at DLA Piper, where she is a group, representing nonpro t and provides estate planning mittee and was named to the es more than 60 lawyers across member of the white-collar and organizations including pro- for business owners, wealthy executive committee in February. nine oces around the world. investigation practice. Hausfeld fessional individuals and Goodin coun- In the past advises compa- societies, trade entrepreneurs. sels pharma- 18 months, nies in con- associations, She helps her ceutical and Hartman has nection with public charities clients trans- biotechnology led signi cant investigations and private fer wealth companies on cases involving and govern- foundations. to younger the patent land- con dential ment enforce- Clients include generations scape, freedom investigations ment actions. the American to achieve tax to operate, by the SEC She also assists College of eciencies FDA regula- and CFTC and her clients in Surgeons and and protection tions, patent internal inves- implement- the American Library Associa- for bene ciaries and engage in licensing, commercialization and tigations—speci cally around ing risk-based compliance tion. During the COVID crisis, charitable giving. Goldenberg antitrust issues. Goodin leads allegations of nancial reporting programs. Hausfeld recently Goedert has guided several hun- has negotiated gift agreements complex patent infringement irregularities, trading violations, represented a European compa- dred nonpro ts through meeting with universities involving litigations involving lower-cost false statements and fraud. Her ny in the resolution of a World cancellations, insurance claims naming rights for her clients who generic pharmaceutical products clients include prominent local Bank matter involving fraud and and denials, virtual elections, donated signi cant funds. And for depression, diabetes, fungal brokerage rms and traders. corruption allegations. Before sta furloughs, infected em- she worked to devise a structure infections and cardiovascular dis- In March, Hartman presented joining DLA in 2013, Hausfeld ployees, oce reopenings and to help a client transfer an art ease. Recently, Goodin has been an oral argument before the was an associate at Duane Mor- raids on endowments. Goedert collection to her children. Gold- representing generic drug man- Federal Circuit that resulted in a ris and earlier at Mayer Brown. is a frequent lecturer and has enberg began her career in the ufacturers in litigation involving precedent-setting decision that She is co-chair of the Chicago written articles on nonpro t real estate department at Katten nine patents concerning topical overturned a ruling by the Patent oce’s women’s initiative. In a and association topics including Muchin Rosenman and pivoted solutions for the treatment of toe- Trial & Appeal Board. She’s pro bono assignment, Hausfeld governance, antitrust, copyright to estate planning. She was a nail fungus. rough the Leader- active in the rm’s Women’s represented two boys who were issues, lobbying by exempt orga- partner in Katten’s trust and es- ship Council on Legal Diversity, Forum and was elected to the separated from their fathers after nizations and human resources tates practice before joining Neal she mentors Chicago law stu- professional advancement com- crossing the U.S.-Mexico border issues. She is a former board Gerber Eisenberg in 2006. She’s dents. With an eye for diversity, mittee. Hartman is vice chair of to seek asylum. She recently was member of the Association Fo- the only female attorney on the she manages recruitment for the the American Bar Association’s selected to mentor a Guatema- rum and the American Society of Neal Gerber Eisenberg executive rm’s IP pharma practice group. derivatives law committee and lan law student through DLA’s Association Executives Founda- committee. And she serves on the executive is on the board of the Anti-Defa- global scholarships program. tion. She also was a member of committee of domestic violence mation League Midwest Region. the Lyric Opera Guild Board. legal clinic Ascend Justice.

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VALARIE HAYS SONDRA HEMERYCK ELIZABETH HESS MAGGIE HICKEY LAURA HOEY Partner Partner Partner Partner Chicago office managing partner Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila Kirkland & Ellis Schiff Hardin Ropes & Gray Former federal prosecutor Vala- Founding partner Sondra Hem- At Kirkland & Ellis, Elizabeth Former federal prosecutor Laura Hoey oversees strategy rie Hays focuses on white-collar eryck focuses on class actions Hess represents clients in gov- Maggie Hickey last year was to grow the rm’s practice in defense, investigations and com- and other complex litigation. ernment enforcement defense appointed independent monitor the Midwest, including litiga- pliance work. She has tried 16 Recently, she represented United and internal investigations and to oversee implementation of a tion and enforcement, health federal jury trials and conducted Airlines in six consumer class litigation matters. In the past 18 consent decree for the Chicago care and private equity. She’s more than 150 actions led in months, Hess Police Depart- co-leader of the investigations. four di erent has represent- ment. Follow- health care and Recently, Hays U.S. district ed clients in ing the killing life sciences served as trial courts. ey more than a of George industry group counsel for a related to dozen con- Floyd, Hickey and handles bank executive COVID-19 ight dential govern- is conducting a high-prole charged with cancellation re- ment investi- special review cases defend- fraud, but the funds and other gations, often of the depart- ing individuals government issues, putting in connection ment’s re- facing govern- moved to dis- her on the lead- with alleged vi- sponse to civic ment investi- miss the indictment with prej- ing edge of defending business olations of the False Claims Act. protests. Hickey joined Schi gations and alleged health care udice on the eve of the January interests in a wave of pandem- Cases include alleged violations Hardin in 2018 to lead the rm’s fraud. Last year, she was co-lead trial. Earlier, Hays represented in ic-related litigation. She also rep- of the Anti-Kickback Statute, white-collar defense and gov- counsel for one of the parents a criminal wire fraud matter in a resented an insurance company o -label promotion of products ernment investigations practice. charged in the college admis- trial that resulted in a hung jury in multiple class actions and and improper billing practic- Previously she served as Illinois sions scandal. Also in 2019, and dismissal with prejudice by obtained a summary judgment es. One career highlight was executive inspector general. she secured a successful civil the government. Hays joined for a global food and beverage successfully defending Abbott After joining Schi Hardin, Hick- settlement on behalf of a major Riley Safer in 2016 from Schi manufacturer. Hemeryck was Laboratories in a False Claims ey was tapped by the Chicago pharmacy company following a Hardin. She served two stints as among 22 partners who left Schi Act case with more than $1 bil- Board of Education to investigate multiyear investigation. Before an assistant U.S. attorney for the Hardin in 2016 to establish Riley lion at stake. Hess is a member allegations that students were rejoining Ropes & Gray in 2011, Northern District of Illinois. In Safer Holmes & Cancila. She had of the rm’s litigation associate sexually abused by employees. Hoey was an assistant U.S. attor- April, she published an article practiced at Schi Hardin for and junior partner review com- at year she also investigated ney in Arkansas. Under Hoey’s in Law360 advising that nursing more than 23 years. She serves as mittees. She has been a longtime charges of sexual harassment in leadership, the Chicago oce homes must prepare for the risk lead for a local chapter of Moms supporter of LINK Unlimited, the Illinois House speaker’s of- has expanded its outreach in of False Claims Act liability. Demand Action for Gun Sense in which supports Black youth, and ce. Hickey spent more than 10 the local community, including America. Beat the Streets Chicago Wres- years as a prosecutor, including hosting pro bono legal clinics tling, an organization that helps ve years as executive assistant to help people with criminal at-risk youth through wrestling U.S. attorney for the Northern records gain employment. and enrichment programs. District of Illinois. CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS • SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 25

AMANDA HOLLIS SHARON HWANG KATIE JAKOLA KERRY JOHNSON MICHELLE KANTOR Partner Shareholder Partner Real estate sector co-chair Member Kirkland & Ellis McAndrews Held & Malloy Kirkland & Ellis DLA Piper McDonald Hopkins As the youngest woman to make At McAndrews Held & Malloy, Litigation partner Katie Jakola Partner Kerry Johnson was Michelle Kantor is chair of the equity partner in Kirkland’s Sharon Hwang specializes in has won trials in federal and named co-chair of the real federal and local contracting intellectual property practice, intellectual property law and state courts nationwide in estate sector in January. Johnson and procurement practice group Amanda Hollis represents is a member of the executive commercial litigation matters specializes in real estate invest- at McDonald Hopkins, repre- Fortune 500 companies as lead committee. She’s one of a limited involving mass tort, product lia- ment trusts and their underwrit- senting women-, minority- and or co-lead number of bility, contract ers. She has veteran-owned trial counsel. patent litigators disputes and helped REIT businesses. Her prac- with experi- restructurings. issuer clients During the tice includes ence before During the raise $8 billion pandemic, she biotechnology, federal district pandemic, Ja- in private has volun- medical devic- courts, the kola has served oerings, IPOs teered to help es, chemistry, Patent Trial & as lead litiga- and follow-on businesses computing and Appeal Board, tion counsel for equity and navigate the electronics. the Federal Macy’s in con- debt oerings. federal CARES Hollis joined Circuit Court nection with its In the past 18 Act. Kantor has Kirkland in 2008 from Latham of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme $4 billion nancing in response months, Johnson represented more than 30 years of experi- & Watkins, where she was an Court. In 2018, Hwang argued to impacts from the virus. e AXA Investment Managers in ence in government contracting, associate. She’s a member of before the Federal Circuit a liability management work for its $1.1 billion acquisition of diversity certications, pro- Kirkland’s associate review highly publicized appeal over Macy’s could serve as a guide NorthStar Realty Europe. Earlier curement law, corporate law committee, responsible for one of the largest awards of for retail and other companies she represented LaSalle Hotel and government contracting maintaining consistency of punitive damages in a patent in- facing challenges due to the pan- Properties in its $5.2 billion sale disputes. She joined McDonald promotions. She previously led fringement case. She secured an demic. Jakola serves as BP’s na- to Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Hopkins in 2008. Earlier, she was the Chicago o ce’s domestic a rmation of the district court’s tional coordinating counsel, with rough DLA’s Leadership deputy director at the Chicago violence pro bono program. She $254 million judgment in favor responsibility for more than 920 Alliance for Women, Johnson Department of Construction & is a co-founder and leader of Big of her client, a maker of medical personal injury lawsuits pending is working to ensure that other Permits and was deputy com- Careers Little Kids, a group that devices. Hwang established the in federal court. She defended attorneys maintain wellness missioner of the Department of connects female professionals rm’s Diversity in Patent Law Fel- the company against thousands during the pandemic. She’s a Buildings. Kantor is on the board in law, nance and business lowship in 2009 and oversees the of personal injury claims arising member of the National Associ- of the Women’s Business Devel- when they are approaching the program. She is president of the from the Deepwater Horizon ation of Real Estate Investment opment Center and assists with peak of their careers and have Greater Chicago Legal Clinic. oil spill. She has served in lead Trusts and mentors young wom- certications for a nine-state young children. And she’s active roles on diversity and inclusion en considering a career in the region. She is general counsel in WOMN LLC, a mentoring initiatives, including Kirkland’s male-dominated REIT industry. for the Federation of Women program to help women succeed Women’s Leadership initiative. Johnson joined DLA Piper in Contractors. Kantor speaks to in the business of law. 2015 from Hunton & Williams. trade associations nationally and locally on procurement-related issues.

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JENNIFER KENEDY LORETTO KENNEDY LIVIA KISER HEATHER KISSLING ASHLEE KNUCKEY Executive committee vice chair Principal Partner Partner Partner Locke Lord Chuhak & Tecson King & Spalding Marshall Gerstein & Borun Locke Lord Partner Jennifer Kenedy special- Loretto Kennedy leads Chuhak Livia Kiser defends multina- In addition to securing biotech- At Locke Lord, Ashlee Knuck- izes in commercial litigation, & Tecson’s aviation litigation and tionals in high-stakes disputes nology patents and developing ey is a partner in the business including trade secret misappro- transactions practice group and arising from allegedly dangerous worldwide patent prosecution litigation and dispute resolution priation and other intellectual focuses on airline litigation and products or substances, con- strategies, Heather Kissling practice group and is chair of the property disputes as well as product and premises liability. sumer fraud, false advertising, serves as chair of the prosecu- food, beverage and cosmetics employment She has repre- breach of tion practice. industry group. and contrac- sented aviation warranty, pri- Kissling man- She is on the tual disputes. parties in liti- vacy violations ages the patent rm’s board Kenedy also gation arising and unfair portfolio for of directors. serves as the out of airline competition. a therapeu- Knuckey was rm’s deputy accidents, in- In the past 18 tic recently lead counsel general coun- cluding crashes months, Kiser approved by for the Locke sel and chairs in Peru and In- has defended the FDA and Lord team the rm’s com- donesia. During a large U.S. several foreign represent- mittee govern- the pandemic, food producer regulato- ing WellCare ing exible work arrangements. she has handled depositions and against consumer fraud and ry agencies to treat a disease as national insurance and She is chairing a task force to court appearances by video and false-advertising claims. In an- a icting roughly 200 million health care regulatory counsel establish a transformative way assisted younger attorneys and other case, she was successful in women. She has teamed with in its $17.3 billion merger with to provide legal services post- colleagues by hosting after-hours moving to deny certication for outside legal service providers Centene that closed earlier this COVID. Kenedy was the rst calls. Kennedy is a founding a proposed class action related to increase eciencies and year. She led the team represent- female managing partner of the member of Chuhak & Tecson to airline check-in procedures. reduce costs for certain aspects ing WellCare in the sale of its Chicago oce, serving between networking and philanthropic Kiser joined King & Spaulding in of patent prosecution. Before Missouri and Nebraska Medic- 2010 and 2018. She co-founded group Women Helping Wom- 2018 from Sidley Austin, where joining Marshall Gerstein in aid plans to Anthem to satisfy and led the rm’s women’s ini- en. Kennedy joined Chuhak & she was a partner in the litiga- 2007, Kissling worked as a patent terms of the merger. And she tiative. Kenedy co-founded the Tecson in 2004 from Holland & tion group. Her pro bono work agent at Leydig Voit & Mayer. was part of the team that served Coalition of Women’s Initiatives Knight, where she was a partner. has focused on obtaining asylum Kissling is on Marshall Gerstein’s as counsel to CVS Health in its in Law, a nonprot member- Previously, she was a partner at for persecuted individuals and professional development and $70 million acquisition of Aetna ship association dedicated to Burke Weaver & Prell. Kennedy ensuring that children with orientation committee and is in 2018. She’s a member of the advancing female lawyers. She has been active in the Chicago disabilities obtain necessary ser- active in the rm’s women’s af- rm’s attorney development and also co-founded Women Oce Bar Association, having served vices in public schools. Kiser is nity group. She was a founding practice development/market- Managing Partners, a group that on its board of managers and on the rm’s diversity committee member of the Chicago chapter ing committees. meets to share best practices. several terms on the judicial and is active in the Women’s Bar of Women in Bio and serves on She is on the executive board of evaluation committee. Association of Illinois. the chapter’s advisory board. the Within Reach Foundation. CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS • SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 27

MICHELLE KOUBA BEATA KRAKUS LAURA LABEOTS REGINA LAMONICA DENISE LAZAR Partner Officer Partner Partner Partner Michael Best & Friedrich Greensfelder Hemker & Gale Lathrop GPM Perkins Coie Barnes & Thornburg Equity partner Michelle Kouba As a specialist in franchise law, Intellectual property specialist A partner in the white-collar Co-chair of the toxic-tort prac- handles international trademark Beata Krakus has prepared Laura Labeots helps chemistry and investigations practice tice, Denise Lazar represents and copyright law as part of franchise programs for concepts and biotechnology industry group, Regina “Gina” LaMonica parties in state and federal civil the rm’s intellectual property including real estate brokerages, clients develop and defend their handles white-collar criminal litigation and arbitration pro- practice group. She is currently hotels, restaurants, and tness portfolios and develop eective matters as well as securities and ceedings. In 2020, the Appellate representing and personal patent strate- civil litigation. Court of Illinois clients in sever- health systems. gies. In the past She also serves armed a 2018 al trademark, She is one of 18 months, on the rm’s win obtained trade dress two female Labeots helped evaluation by Lazar for and copyright attorneys who a notable committee. a nonpro t enforcement lead the rm’s research During the last organization and litigation franchising and institution 18 months, that advocates matters involv- distribution procure a large LaMonica for transparent ing infringe- group. She also portfolio of conducted government. ment of clients’ assists clients in patents related high-pro le e case intellectual property and managing distribution networks. to Nobel Prize-winning nucle- investigations on behalf of two stemmed from the organiza- associated rights. Her success In the past 18 months, Krakus ic acids-based research. She Big Ten universities related to tion’s reporting of anti-inclusive in targeting infringers operating helped a national franchisor drafted an amicus brief for a public allegations of sexual remarks by a public ocial at on e-commerce sites has helped client with lobbying eorts and U.S. Supreme Court case dealing misconduct. e rst was an a government meeting. e her clients to better control handled a regulatory investiga- with the subject matter eligibility independent investigation for ocial sued the organization and protect their brands in the tion of another franchisor client. of biotech patents. As a member Ohio State University involving when he was removed from his current environment. Kouba She also has been involved in in- of the amicus committee of the misconduct allegations against position, but the DuPage County joined Michael Best in 2013 from ternational franchise arbitration Intellectual Property Law Associ- a former athletics and student trial court ruled the organization Vanek Vickers & Masini. She and has handled the franchise ation of Chicago, Labeots writes health department physician. had not defamed the ocial and is on the committee of lawyers aspects of mergers and acqui- U.S. Supreme Court briefs for e second matter is an inde- dismissed the case. Lazar serves and sta that helps implement sitions. Before joining Greens- cases that seek to change patent pendent investigation for the as co-chair of BTWomen and is diversity initiatives, and she’s felder in 2010, Krakus was an laws and improve due process University of Minnesota related leading an initiative to double an active member of the rm’s attorney at Sonnenschein Nath & for IP legal proceedings. Labeots to allegations of sexual mis- the number of female capital Women’s Development Group. Rosenthal. She’s a member of the has a doctorate in organic chem- conduct by a former hockey partners over the next ve years. She serves on the board of American Bar Association Forum istry and worked on developing coach. In pro bono assignments, She’s also a member of the diver- nonpro t CannedWater4Kids, on Franchising’s governing com- diagnostic products at Abbott LaMonica represents at-risk sity and inclusion committee. which focuses on bringing clean, mittee. She writes and speaks on Laboratories. She joined Lathrop minors through Chicago Volun- safe water to children around the topics in franchising. GPM last year from Husch teer Legal Services. LaMonica is world. Blackwell. co-leader of the Chicago chapter of the National Women’s White Collar Defense Association.

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JESSICA LINGERTAT JULIA LISSNER GAYLE LITTLETON LAURA LYDIGSEN VIRGINIA MARINO Managing partner Litigation partner Partner Shareholder Shareholder Gould & Ratner Akerman Jenner & Block Brinks Gilson & Lione Brinks Gilson & Lione Jessica Lingertat was elect- Partner Julia Lissner recently Former prosecutor Gayle Little- Intellectual property special- Intellectual property attorney ed a managing partner of the was lead counsel on an amicus ton focuses on anti-corruption, ist Laura Lydigsen chairs the Virginia Marino focuses on rm in February. A partner in brief to the U.S. Supreme Court fraud, whistleblower complaints appellate practice group and is a brand protection, copyright and Gould & Ratner’s real estate in the case that resulted in the and harassment allegations. She member of the Brinks executive unfair competition. She has ex- practice, Lingertat focuses on June decision securing federal also serves on Jenner’s manage- committee. Her practice focuses perience clearing brand names representing civil rights law ment commit- on IP litigation for pharma- middle-mar- protections for tee. Littleton in the phar- ceutical com- ket lenders, LGBTQ work- represented maceutical, panies as well typically in ers. Her brief Common- biotechnology as in trademark loans ranging was on behalf wealth Edison and medical prosecution for from $5 million of 46 nonpro t and Exelon in device indus- life sciences to $40 million. and grassroots the govern- tries. Lydigsen rms. With the In the past 18 organizations ment’s pub- assists generic growth of the months, she dedicated to lic-corruption pharmaceu- CBD market, represented eradicating investigation tical compa- Marino has a global manager of alternative discrimination against transgen- that resulted in a deferred-pros- nies in obtaining judgments of been involved in developing and investments in its largest real der and gender-nonconforming ecution agreement with the noninfringement and invalidity implementing strategy for trade- estate portfolio acquisition, in- people. Her brief on behalf of a Justice Department, announced of weak brand-side patents that mark lings and enforcement volving dozens of Chicago-area transgender student in a case in July. She was part of a team often prevent the public from eorts, including oppositions, properties. Lingertat represented before the 7th Circuit challenged that successfully challenged the having access to low-priced for marks covering CBD prod- a family oce in several real a school district’s discriminatory Small Business Administration’s generics for years, even decades, ucts and services. Recently, she estate transactions, including policy on access to bathrooms rule excluding organizations in after the patents for the true managed a federal trademark property sales to a diversi ed and led to a transgender-rights bankruptcy from obtaining loans innovation have expired. She infringement case concerning a restaurant group and property victory. She serves on the rm’s through the Paycheck Protection has appeared in litigations and/ dispute between two large food acquisitions. She also repre- pro bono executive council. Program. Littleton served as an or Patent Trial & Appeal Board manufacturers and distribu- sented a national builder in a Lissner joined Akerman in 2014 assistant U.S. attorney for 12 proceedings involving more than tors. And Marino developed the portfolio acquisition of property from Ulmer & Berne. Since early years, rst in Illinois and then a dozen dierent drug products brand clearance strategy for a under development in eight 2014, she has represented a U.S. in Florida. In Chicago, she was and assisted clients with regu- new company name in hospital- communities. Lingertat leads tire company in an ongoing trade on the prosecution team that latory and prelitigation strategy ity. She began her legal career at Gould & Ratner Opportunities dress infringement and un- investigated and prosecuted for other drug products. She is Brinks in 2008 and rejoined the for Women, a program that helps fair-competition lawsuit regard- Scott Fawell, former Gov. George an active member of the Federal rm in 2016 after spending more female clients and contacts ing tire tread patterns. Ryan’s chief of sta, and former Circuit Bar Association and a co- than ve years at DLA Piper. She network with the rm’s female Melrose Park Police Chief Vito chair of the amicus committee. is co-chair of the hiring commit- attorneys. Scavo. She co-chairs the rm’s tee. Chicago Women’s Forum.

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LINDSEY MARKUS LAKEISHA MARSH LAURA KEIDAN MARTIN CHRISTINA MARTINI STEPHANIE MCCANN Shareholder Partner Partner Partner Partner, corporate advisory Chuhak & Tecson Akerman Katten McDermott Will & Emery McDermott Will & Emery Shareholder Lindsey Markus is At Akerman, LaKeisha Marsh is At Katten, Laura Keidan Martin Christina Martini is global head Corporate nance specialist practice group leader for Chuhak chair of the higher education and is co-chair of the national health of McDermott Will & Emery’s Stephanie McCann represents & Tecson’s estate planning and collegiate athletics practice and care practice and serves on the trademark prosecution and private-equity groups, com- asset protection group. She deputy chair of the government executive committee. During the controversy practice. Her prac- mercial lenders and public and also serves on the executive aairs and public policy group. pandemic, Martin’s team has tice includes cases involving private companies. When the committee During the pan- developed a domain names, pandemic as well as the demic, Marsh resource guide the internet, hit, McCann rm’s business is advising that includes social media, helped clients development higher educa- information advertising and navigate their and marketing tion institutions about the unfair compe- liquidity situa- committees. on COVID-19 federal CARES tition. In the tions, review- During the matters and re- Act as well as past 18 months ing nancing COVID-19 pan- turn-to-campus checklists for Martini has led agreements demic, Markus protocols and state Medicaid rebranding, and weighing has oered cli- policies. Marsh programs. She litigation and options for ents driveway signings in which represents a collegiate athletic has counseled clients in con- brand development matters for government assistance. She she passes clients the docu- association in its concussion nection with the establishment clients in biotechnology, global helped interpret sometimes am- ments while wearing gloves and litigation. And she represents of pop-up hospitals, discontin- consulting and beverages. She’s biguous federal loan guidelines a mask and in the presence of a public university in litigation uation of elective procedures, co-host of WGN Radio podcast and advised clients on nancing witnesses standing 30 feet away. related to the federal Family federal aid programs and other “Legal Face-O” and host of options. She handled H.I.G. During the past year, Markus Educational Rights & Privacy Act. strategies to combat the public the “Paradigm Shift” podcast, Capital’s acquisition of Supply has educated clients and the She is deputy chair of Akerman’s health crisis while remain- exploring the intersection of Source Enterprises, a distributor public on the new Illinois Trust Women’s Initiative Network ing nancially viable. Martin business and law. Martini joined of personal protective equip- Code, which became eective in and created a virtual series for represents large health systems McDermott in 2018 from DLA ment, a major transaction amid January. She began her career as women addressing issues in the and life sciences companies and Piper, where she practiced for a decline in global M&A activity. a law clerk at Chuhak & Tecson work-from-home environment. advises on physician compensa- almost 25 years. Her pro bono Before joining McDermott in in 2006 and built her practice Marsh is a member of the rm’s tion arrangements. Last year, she work has included co-chairing 2014, McCann was a partner at over 10 years. Markus serves on pro bono executive council. And spearheaded a national training the International Trademark Kirkland & Ellis for more than the board of the Jewish United she serves on the board of Girls program to help Katten’s female Association’s Saul Lefkowitz 11 years. She is on McDermott’s Fund and chairs the nonpro t’s in the Game, which mentors girls attorneys manage their careers, Moot Court Competition for the executive and management philanthropic funds committee. through sports and leadership build essential skills and navi- Midwest region. She’s a member committees and is responsible programs. gate workplace issues. She serves of the Chicago Committee on for instituting female attorney on the board of the Museum of Women’s Initiatives in Law. lunches and mentoring groups Contemporary Art Chicago. for the Chicago corporate prac- tice. She helps plan the rm’s summits on diversity.

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MOLLY MCGINLEY CARRIE MCNALLY SHANNON MCNULTY SUSAN MEYER JENNIFER MIKULINA Partner Special counsel Partner Officer Partner K&L Gates Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Clifford Law Offices Greensfelder Hemker & Gale McDermott Will & Emery At K&L Gates, Molly McGinley At Sheppard Mullin, Carrie Personal injury attorney Shan- Intellectual property attorney Partner Jennifer Mikulina spe- specializes in class action and McNally focuses on mergers non McNulty leads Cliord Susan Meyer leads Greens- cializes in intellectual property, litigation in consumer goods, and acquisitions, joint ventures Law’s consumer law practice felder’s trademark, copyright, patent and trademark services. technology, nancial services, and public and private nanc- group, which includes class media and advertising group. She manages global trademark investment management, ener- ings. McNally recently advised actions, mass torts and antitrust Last year, she was appointed portfolios for notable clients gy, telecommu- Morningstar in cases. During Norway’s hon- including nications and a $750 million the pandem- orary consul New York Life, health care. credit facility ic, McNulty for Illinois, Terlato Wines, She manages and a separate has helped assisting with Ian Schrager, cases arising $50 million business consular aairs Hitachi and from statutes revolving credit owners with and helping Young Inno- including the facility. And she interruption to facilitate vations. She Telephone represented claims due to business and was part of the Consumer Chicago tech COVID-19. She cultural rela- McDermott Protection incubator 1871 serves as co- tions between team that won Act and the Illinois Biometric in its February acquisition of the lead counsel in the Cook County Norway and the U.S. Last year, a summary judgment at the Information Privacy Act, which assets and programs of the Illi- Johnson & Johnson talcum she worked on the trial team that Trademark Trial & Appeal Board guards against the unlawful nois Technology Association. She powder litigation related to cases won a multimillion-dollar copy- for Hitachi in June. Mikulina collection and storing of bio- also represented Hecla Mining of ovarian cancer. Last year, she right infringement case involving also serves as chair of McDer- metric information. She recently in two oerings. Before joining led the $35.75 million settlement the unlicensed use of artwork mott’s gender diversity commit- published an article, “What You Sheppard Mullin in 2012, McNal- of a long-running class action and graphics for video-reel tee. In this role, she revamped Need to Know About COVID and ly was a partner at Bell Boyd & involving alleged leaks by Pella casino slot machine games—a the rm’s women’s business Biometric Privacy.” McGinley Lloyd. She has led the Sheppard windows. McNulty has practiced case that’s signi cant for artwork development coaching program has practiced at K&L Gates since Mullin Chicago oce’s Women’s with Cliord Law for nearly 17 creators. Before joining Greens- and established a coaching pro- 2006. She’s a member of the Lawyer Group since its inception years and previously worked for felder in 2017, Meyer practiced gram for associates. Recently, rmwide pro bono committee in 2012. McNally serves as chair the Chicago Police Department, at Nixon Peabody and was with she was selected by the Interna- and pro bono coordinator for the of regional nonpro t conserva- including several years as an Ungaretti & Harris prior to its tional Trademark Association Chicago oce. She is co-chair tion organization Openlands. administrative director in the merger with Nixon. She serves to participate in its IP Law Firm of K&L Gates for Equal Justice, a And she is on the board of Bureau of Operational Services. on the board of Women Entre- of the Future task force. She is joint initiative of the rm’s diver- nonpro t Cradles to Crayons, She speaks often at seminars preneurs Grow Global, a non- on the boards of Lawyers for the sity and pro bono committees. which supports children through and association meetings and is pro t that helps women-owned Creative Arts and Girl Scouts of McGinley also serves as Chicago age 12. known for promoting civility and businesses expand internation- Greater Chicago & Northwest oce hiring partner and men- collegiality, even with opponents ally. She speaks on franchise and Indiana. tors new associates. in high-stakes litigation. IP topics at association events.

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BRITT MILLER LESLIE MINIER DEBORAH MONSON GAIL MORSE CINTHIA GRANADOS Managing partner Corporate partner Partner Partner MOTLEY Mayer Brown Katten Ropes & Gray Jenner & Block Member At Mayer Brown, Britt Miller As chief diversity partner, Leslie Deborah “Debbie” Monson is Partner Gail Morse leads Jen- Dykema Gossett manages the 350-lawyer Chicago Minier advises Katten on busi- head of the rm’s derivatives and ner’s national state tax practice Cinthia Granados Motley is o ce and serves as co-leader of ness development opportunities commodities specialty group and provides pro bono guid- director of the rm’s global data the rm’s global antitrust and and consults with management and a partner in the asset man- ance to community nonprots. privacy and information security competition practice. In the past on diversity goals and strategies. agement practice. In response to During the pandemic, Morse has practice. Motley acts as incident 18 months, She also leads the COVID-19 co-authored response coun- Miller has led client partner- pandemic, analyses of tax sel for clients, litigation teams ships to achieve Monson has implications of advising them representing mutual diversi- oered anal- federal coro- on information CDK Global in ty-related goals. ysis on how navirus relief governance antitrust class Minier spear- regulations acts, including and litigation and individual headed Katten’s being enacted the CARES Act. readiness, as actions alleging participation in or changed in Last year, as well as mitigat- anticompeti- the Manseld response to part of the rm ing cyber-risk tive practices Rule program the pandemic team providing exposures, data in the automotive technology aimed at boosting diversity in aect asset managers. In the legal assistance to the historic security and privacy litigation. industry. And she helped secure law rm leadership—the rm past 18 months, she assisted YWCA Evanston/North Shore, She joined Dykema in 2018 a victory when a federal judge achieved certication for meet- an asset management client in she secured property tax exemp- from Sedgwick, where she was a in Illinois dismissed an envi- ing standards requiring that at obtaining regulatory approvals tions for parcels of property to partner and co-chair of the cy- ronmental group’s bid to block least 30 percent women, LGBTQ+ for an investment vehicle in be included in the construction bersecurity and privacy practice. construction of the $500 million and minority attorneys be con- digital asset derivatives. Monson of a new family support cen- Motley developed and launched Obama Presidential Center on sidered for signicant leadership joined Ropes & Gray in 2008 as ter. Additionally, she achieved Dykema’s privacy and cyberse- Chicago’s South Side. Her pro roles. Minier recently moderated one of three founding partners federal tax exemption for One curity blog and set up Dykema’s bono work includes securing a Black Lives Matter discussion of the Chicago o ce. She led Roof Chicago, a nonprot work- cyber-responder hotline. She rulings that reunited two Brazil- online for associates at Katten hiring and mentoring for the ing to build housing for aging speaks at industry seminars on ian migrant mothers with their and a dozen other rms. In o ce’s rst decade, consistently LGBTQ individuals. Morse is a cyber-risks and the challenges children after being separated her corporate practice, Minier including women. Previously founder and co-chair emeritus in handling personal data under due to the Trump administra- advises companies on mergers, she practiced at Mayer Brown of the rm’s resource group for emerging data privacy and pro- tion’s border policy. She’s a acquisitions and dispositions. for more than 13 years. For two LGBTQ professionals and sta. tection laws. Motley is a member member of the Chicago Botanic She also advises private-equity decades, she has provided pro Most recently, she advocated for of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Gardens Guild board and the funds investing in leveraged bono legal advice to the Oak adoption of a preferred-pronoun Appeals’ e-discovery pilot pro- Rush University Medical Center buyouts and selling portfolio Park River Forest Infant Welfare policy, advancing inclusivity for gram committee and head of its associates board. companies. She serves on the Society. transgender lawyers. privacy and data security project National Association of Women team. Lawyers board. 32 SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 • CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS

CYNDE MUNZER TONYA NEWMAN MARGO WOLF JULIE J. OLENN PAULITA PIKE Member Partner O’DONNELL Partner Partner Dykema Gossett Neal Gerber Eisenberg Partner Jenner & Block Ropes & Gray At Dykema, Cynde Munzer is a Partner Tonya Newman handles Benesch As co-chair of Jenner’s private- Asset management partner senior member of the rm’s cor- civil litigation and product liabili- At Benesch, Margo Wolf O’Don- wealth practice, Julie J. Olenn Paulita Pike represents mutual porate nance practice. During ty matters. Her practice includes nell co-chairs the labor and em- guides a team of 15 lawyers funds and their boards, invest- the pandemic, Munzer has defense of state and federal ployment group. With 25 years of advising high-net-worth clients. ment advisers and fund service managed her team’s handling product liability matters and experience, O’Donnell coun- She has a particular focus on providers. Recently, Pike advised of hundreds representation sels clients multigenera- Calamos Funds of millions of of policyhold- on drafting tional tax plan- in connec- dollars in credit ers in insur- employment ning and trust tion with its facilities that ance coverage and separation administration. acquisition provide busi- cases. Newman agreements, In the past 18 of boutique nesses with recently was managing months, Olenn asset manager more exibility part of a Neal individual and has written Timpani Cap- and cushion. Gerber Eisen- group dis- articles on ital Manage- She has worked berg team that charges, and planning issues ment. Pike is with bankers successfully conducting and tech- leading the and business executives to craft defended the constitutionality internal investigations. Clients niques pertinent in light of high team representing Invesco in custom nancing solutions and of the Illinois hospital property include large employers such transfer-tax exemptions and low its SEC application to build a also has helped clients improve tax exemption law for the Illinois as Cisco, Ace Hardware, Alliant interest rates. In response to the proprietary, semitransparent operational eciency. Before Health & Hospital Associa- Credit Union and Corner Bakery. COVID-19 crisis, Olenn helped active ETF. And she handled an joining Dykema in 2017, Mun- tion. She also participated on Recently, O’Donnell has focused lead an initiative at the rm to oering for six closed-end funds zer was a partner at Aronberg a team advising a high-level on training clients on best train lawyers in the preparation that raised close to $600 million. Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa. Illinois government ocial on practices for disrupting implicit of health care powers of attor- Pike is an adjunct professor at Munzer helped lead the launch COVID-19-related health care bias in order to make workplaces ney for individuals working at Notre Dame Law School and of special programs for female emergency orders. Newman fair and less subject to litigation. health care organizations and Northwestern Pritzker School of attorneys and business profes- co-chairs the rm’s Women’s O’Donnell serves as co-chair of community nonpro ts. Olenn Law, where she teaches courses sionals outside the rm—part Network Leadership Team. She the national board of nonpro t joined Jenner last year, having on mutual fund regulation. As a of Dykema’s Women’s Business serves as co-chair of the Amer- Coalition of Women’s Initiatives spent much of her career as tax member of the Women’s Forum, Initiative. Early in the COVID ican Bar Association products in Law. She leads B-Sharp, Ben- counsel at a national bank and she mentors female attorneys. crisis, Munzer led a team in do- liability committee and co- esch’s coaching and professional trust company. She serves as a In her pro bono work, Pike has nating more than 2,000 masks to chair of the women in products development group for female mentor through the Leadership helped DACA recipients extend health care institutions and rst liability subcommittee. She is on in-house attorneys. Before join- Council on Legal Diversity. or change their immigration responders in the Chicago area the board of nonpro t Girls on ing Benesch in 2018, O’Donnell status. She serves as treasurer of and Michigan. the Run Chicago and is on the was a shareholder at Vedder Chicago Shakespeare eater. Propane Gas Defense Associa- Price. She is on the board of the tion board. University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

McAndrews,M Held & Malloy congratulatesc our Shareholder and EExecutive Committee member SharonS Hwang on her selection as one oof Chicago’s Notable Women in Law.

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CAROLINE RECKLER TERRA REYNOLDS TRISHA RICH JENNIFER ROMIG SONYA ROSENBERG Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Latham & Watkins Latham & Watkins Holland & Knight Ropes & Gray Neal Gerber Eisenberg Bankruptcy attorney Caroline Former prosecutor Terra Reyn- Litigation partner Trisha Rich Corporate health care partner Sonya Rosenberg is a partner Reckler is a partner in Latham’s olds is co-chair of Latham’s is co-chair of the rm’s na- Jennifer Romig advises compa- in the labor and employment restructuring and special-situa- Chicago Litigation & Trial tional legal profession team. nies in the health care and life practice group and has written tions practice and is chair of the Department and vice chair of She also serves as the deputy sciences industries, as well as extensively on COVID-related rm’s Chicago nance depart- the health care and life scienc- professional- responsibility private-equity funds. During employment concerns. Recent ment. Reckler es industry partner for the the pandem- writings have has been at the group. is Chicago oce. ic, Romig covered federal helm of recent year, Reynolds Her practice has helped relief legisla- Chapter 11 successfully focuses on clients navi- tion, the ques- proceedings resolved liti- litigation, gate regulatory tion of paid including rep- gation against legal ethics and and business sick leave and resenting Alta several health professional issues. She the implica- Mesa Resourc- care provider responsibility. counseled on tions of stay-at- es, an oil and clients that had Rich is part of privacy and home orders. gas company, faced allega- the legal team compliance In online pre- and GNC Holdings, the health tions of False Claims Act and that petitioned the U.S. Supreme practices to accommodate tele- sentations, she’s addressed time and wellness brand. She also Anti-Kickback Statute viola- Court on behalf of a man who health visits and avoid disrup- o and pay, physical workplace represented American Energy, tions. e government agreed to charged that his denial of admis- tions in the delivery of services. considerations and workforce Permian Basin, in its out-of- dismiss one of Reynolds’ clients sion to the Illinois bar violated Romig advised independent reductions. She has also written court exchange, which involved from the lawsuit, and the even- the Americans With Disabilities primary care practice One Med- and spoken on sexual harass- the restructuring of $2.2 billion tual $72 million settlement with Act. As part of the Chicago Bar ical on information governance ment and the #MeToo move- of debt, and chemical concern the remaining clients resolved Association and Chicago Bar and regulatory issues around the ment. Rosenberg is president Hexion in the restructuring of the litigation favorably. Reyn- Foundation’s joint task force expansion of its telehealth and of the Chicago chapter of the $4 billion of debt. Reckler led olds joined Latham in 2017 from on the Sustainable Practice of virtual care oerings. Romig led Coalition of Women’s Initiatives Latham’s Women Enriching Paul Hastings and developed a Law & Innovation, Rich leads a legal team advising Advocate in Law, a nonpro t that supports Business initiative in Chicago specialized health care and life a committee recommending Aurora Health on a joint venture female attorneys. She serves and frequently hosts discussions sciences investigations prac- updated rules for law rm busi- with Taiwanese technology giant as legal counsel for Step Up, a on networking for business tice. She served for more than ness structures, fee sharing and Foxconn that consolidates data nonpro t that empowers girls development. She serves as a decade as an assistant U.S. lawyer advertising. She founded and utilizes predictive analyt- from under-resourced com- guardian ad litem with Chicago attorney in the Northern District and coordinates the pro bono ics and AI machine learning to munities to nish high school Volunteer Legal Services and as of Illinois, eventually rising to Attorney Defense Initiative to personalize health care. She rep- and attend college. rough the pro bono counsel for nonpro t A deputy chief. She co-leads the assist impaired lawyers facing resents asylum seekers pro bono Jewish Funders Network, she Better Chicago. Chicago chapter of the Women’s disciplinary charges. through her work with Heartland has presented workshops for White Collar Defense Associa- Alliance’s National Immigrant nonpro ts on COVID-19-related tion. Justice Center. employment issues.

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HEIDI HENNIG ROWE MARTHA SABOL LEAH SCHLEICHER ERIN SCHRANTZ EILEEN SETHNA Partner Vice chair Partner Partner Partner Schiff Hardin Greenberg Traurig Neal Gerber Eisenberg Jenner & Block Levenfeld Pearlstein Partner Heidi Hennig Rowe is e legalization of sports wager- At Neal Gerber Eisenberg, Leah Erin Schrantz is a partner cover- As a member of Levenfeld deputy practice group leader of ing has created a fresh focus for Schleicher is co-chair of the ing investigations, compliance Pearlstein’s banking and restruc- Schi Hardin’s construction law Martha Sabol, who is co-chair hospitality and leisure practice and defense. She leads internal turing practice group, Eileen group. She represents REITs and of Greenberg’s global gaming group and a member of the real investigations and represents Sethna handles transactions other project owners, develop- practice and vice chair of the estate practice group. In the past clients in Justice Department, and distressed credits while also ers, and design rm. She has 18 months, SEC and con- counseling professionals, advised clients Schleicher gressional pro- borrowers and negotiating with gaming has repre- ceedings and lenders. She more than operations on sented a food advises clients advises banks, $1 billion in how they can and beverage on compliance nancial insti- design and incorporate holding com- assessments tutions, hedge construction online wager- pany selling and strategies. funds, real contracts ing into their a food supply Schrantz led estate investors annually. businesses. company for the compli- and business Rowe serves as Additionally, $2 billion. She ance team for owners in outside construction counsel for she has connected international also represents a real estate the monitor of Credit Suisse AG underwriting, reorganizations, developers Equity Residential clients looking to break into the developer that sold the residen- after the bank’s $715 million workouts and other matters. in Chicago and the Rockefeller U.S. sports wagering market with tial component of a mixed-use settlement with the New York Sethna joined Levenfeld last year Group in New York. In the past other domestic clients to take project as well as an acquisition, Department of Financial Ser- from Chuhak & Tecson, where year, Rowe was construction advantage of the opportunity. which involved negotiation of a vices, part of a broader $2.6 bil- she was principal and banking counsel for Sterling Bay on Lin- Sabol joined Greenberg Trau- construction loan and manage- lion settlement. She also served practice group leader and led a coln Yards, a 50-acre riverfront rig in 2006 from Hyatt Gaming ment agreement. With the onset as team lead conducting an 28-attorney team. Since 2006, project. Rowe provides counsel Management, where she was of the pandemic in April, Schle- investigation into faulty ignition Sethna has represented the of- for COVID-related claims on vice president and general icher provided detailed guid- switches at General Motors. As ce of the Illinois state treasurer active construction projects and counsel. Sabol is co-chair of ance to businesses seeking rent a member and former co-chair and was appointed as a spe- advises project owners on strat- the rm’s Women’s Initiative relief. She is co-chair of Neal of the Women’s Forum, Schrantz cial assistant attorney general. egies for dealing with potential and created the Good-to-Great Gerber Eisenberg’s diversity and promoted programs to support Sethna serves on the advisory COVID-related impacts on Program, a selective six-month inclusion committee and associ- working parents and created board and the women’s board at future projects. She is a mentor intensive business development ate review committee. She was a a mentor program to advance Misericordia Heart of Mercy, a with DePaul University College series for high-potential female board member of the Domestic junior female partners to equity. nonprot that supports individ- of Law’s Women of Color Col- lawyers. Earlier, she organized Violence Legal Clinic and served As a member of the diversity uals with intellectual and devel- lective. For six years, she served the rm’s rst Women’s Busi- as president for two terms. and inclusion committee, she opmental disabilities. Recently, as co-chair of Schi ’s Chicago ness Forum, an annual summit promoted the use of metrics to she was appointed to the Special Volunteer Legal Services clinic. and networking event. progress toward objectives. Olympics of Illinois board.

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MOLSHREE SHARMA EMER SIMIC KIMBERLY SMITH TERESA SNIDER NATALIE J. SPEARS Partner Partner Partner Partner Partner Feinberg Sharma Green Griffith & Borg-Breen Katten Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Dentons US Molshree Sharma is a founding Litigator Emer Simic guides As co-chair of Katten’s glob- Teresa Snider is co-chair of the Natalie J. Spears heads Dentons’ partner of the rm specializing clients through intellectual prop- al mergers and acquisitions/ reinsurance arbitration and global technology, media and in divorce and family law. Shar- erty issues at the woman-owned private-equity group, Kimberly litigation practice group, respon- telecommunications sector. Re- ma mediates and litigates family IP boutique rm and specializes Smith leads a middle-market sible for strategy, managing the cently, she represented 15 news disputes and handles custody in pharmaceutical patents. Simic practice of 100 attorneys who group’s attorneys and providing organizations, winning a motion and child ab- represents Tex- handle lever- training. She to unseal court duction cases. as-based QuVa aged buyouts, handles arbi- records in the She handles Pharma in a joint ventures tration hear- high-pro le internation- trade-secret and recapital- ings and court case of actor al custody case brought izations. She cases related Jussie Smollett. disputes and by competitor represents to coverage On behalf of Hague Con- Par Pharma- Chicago-based and allocation, the Chica- vention cases ceutical. And PE rms late notice, go Tribune, related to a she was coun- including Next- misrepresenta- Spears won treaty that re- sel for Horizon Gen Growth tion and claim a motion to solves issues of child abduction Pharma in proceedings related Partners, North Branch Capital handling. Snider has promoted unseal a search warrant adavit and jurisdiction. Sharma has to its drug that treats urea-cycle and P ngsten Partners as well arbitration as an alternative in the federal prosecution of lectured on the Hague Con- disorders in babies. Simic joined as family oces. In 2018, she dispute resolution mechanism. Ald. Ed Burke. For the Reporter’s vention and child abduction Green Grith in 2017 from Ley- represented PE rm Chicago Pa- She participated in a videotaped Committee for Freedom of the in Rio de Janeiro, London and dig Voit & Mayer. She co-chairs ci c Founders in its acquisition webinar providing an overview Press, she led an amicus brief Israel. She is scheduled to speak Green Grith’s marketing com- of veterinary centers in North- of arbitration for insurance pro- opposing the Chicago police at a family law conference in mittee and has promoted diver- ern California. is year, Smith fessionals, discussing common union’s bid to destroy disci- Singapore next year. And she sity and inclusion. She serves on spearheaded a survey that found disputes involving reinsurance plinary les that was rejected lectures annually for the groups the Chicago chapter board of the the pandemic heightened PE contracts, the dierence be- by the Illinois Supreme Court I Stand Parents Network and Coalition of Women’s Initiatives interest in the animal care eld tween arbitration and litigation, in July. Spears helped relaunch Bring Our Kids Home. She has in Law and is co-chair of the and that animal care rms were and the stages of arbitration. Dentons’ women’s resource provided pro bono services to coalition’s community outreach more open to private equity. Snider practiced for 25 years at group to create a support women at the Cook County Jail. committee. She participates in Smith rejoined Katten in 2015 Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd, network and hone rainmaking She has mentored law students mentoring programs organized after spending ve years at Paul which was merged into Porter skills. She has co-chaired the through the Asian American Bar by the Intellectual Property Hastings. She is part of Katten’s Wright last year. She is on the National Immigrant Justice Association and South Asian Bar Owners Association Women in Women’s Leadership Forum’s Porter Wright compensation Center’s Human Rights Awards Association. Law committee and the Coali- national mentoring panel and committee. Snider co-chairs the for the past three years, includ- tion of Women’s Initiatives. serves on the Boys & Girls Clubs annual Women in Reinsurance ing leading a virtual fundraiser of Chicago board. event that she and two partners in June. started in 2004.

WE SALUTE ALL 2020 NOTABLE WOMEN IN LAW Jeri, Lindsey and Loretto, you set legal precedents, advocate for your clients, HONOREES AND ARE ESPECIALLY PROUD OF innovate within your eld, mentor the next wave of women in law, and give back to OUR RECOGNIZED ATTORNEYS. your respective communities. We feel privileged you have chosen to practice with us.

Jeralyn Baran Lindsey Paige Markus Loretto Kennedy “Representing both employers and “I love working creatively and proactively “I am honored when the rst call my client employees provides me with a heightened with families and business owners to makes aer a dramatic issue occurs is sense of what each side is looking to secure their nancial future and legacy.” to me. is is why I practice law.” accomplish in Employment issues.” 36 SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 • CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS

KATHERINE L. STABA TANYA STANISH LIISA M. THOMAS KARI TIMM DIANA TSAI Partner Partner Partner Partner Member K&L Gates Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton BatesCarey Dykema Gossett At K&L Gates, Katherine L. Staba Divorce and family law attorney At Sheppard Mullin, Liisa M. As cyber team practice lead, For more than a decade, Diana is a partner in the technology Tanya Stanish handles cases omas leads the 60-lawyer Kari Timm has been involved in Tsai has served as assistant transactions and data protec- for high-net-worth individuals global privacy and cyberse- headline-grabbing breaches that practice group leader of Dyke- tion practice. She handles cases that typically involve business, curity team. She has helped rock companies and consumers. ma’s corporate nance practice, involving digital media planning trust, valuation and executive clients navigate privacy and data With an escalation of ransom- which consists of more than 10 and buying, compensation breach dis- ware attacks percent of the advertising issues. Clients closure issues this year, Timm rm’s attor- and marketing, include execu- and imple- has worked neys. During claim substan- tives, entrepre- ment privacy with clients to the pandem- tiation, soft- neurs, doctors, programs such triage claims ic, Tsai has ware licensing, lawyers and as biometric and ensure that worked with unfair com- profession- policies and the appropriate banking clients petition and al athletes. corporate data response team to develop trade secrets. Stanish has use guidelines. is called into COVID-19 She repre- a potentially Clients include action. She amendments, sented the owners of Chicago precedent-setting case pending Arby’s parent Inspire Brands and also has evaluated and assessed PPP consent letters and related cloud technology consultancy before the Missouri Supreme the Merchandise Mart. omas multimillion-dollar business documentation for use in loan Maven Wave in its sale to French Court involving a client who is publishing her second book, interruption claims, which have facilities. She provided guid- multinational Atos that closed sued her ex-husband for fraud “ omas on Big Data: A Prac- been on the rise. She counsels ance on implications for loan this year. She also advised Coty in the inducement of the divorce tical Guide to Global Privacy clients on developing privacy documents and procedures, on a collaboration with actress settlement agreement. Stanish Laws,” a tool for in-house coun- laws such as the Illinois Biomet- including notarization. In April, Lili Reinhart. In March, Staba joined Schiller DuCanto & Fleck sel. Her rst book is a guide to ric Information Privacy Act and she led a panel discussion on co-authored a piece explaining in 2008 from Jenner & Block, handling data breaches. omas the California Consumer Privacy loan modications and PPP loan how companies could expedite where she was a divorce and joined Sheppard Mullin in 2017 Act. With an uptick in class-ac- forgiveness. In her practice, Tsai their internal review procedures family law partner. She shares from Winston & Strawn. She’s tion lawsuits, Timm has assisted represents a range of lenders for advertising and social media insights on family law issues in an adjunct professor at North- clients in assessing coverage and and structures loan transac- content so they could be more local TV interviews. And she western Pritzker School of Law liability. She joined BatesCarey tions, including asset-based responsive during uncertain guides associates to argue in the and is vice chair of the Chicago in 2015 from Walker Wilcox Ma- and cash-ow nancing. She times. Staba rejoined K&L in courtroom, take depositions and Symphony Orchestra board. She tousek, where she was a partner. handles restructuring, workouts 2017 after serving as corpo- be proactive to build their skills. plays violin in the Chicago Bar Timm serves on the cyber legal and liquidations and represents rate counsel at Amazon Web Stanish is a longtime supporter Association Symphony Orches- and claims subgroup of Lloyd’s middle-market businesses in Services. She also worked at of the Cradle, an Evanston adop- tra, made up of lawyers and of London’s International Un- mergers and acquisitions and Publicis Groupe and Dentons. tion agency. judges. derwriting Association. corporate governance matters. Tsai serves on the Dykema Chi- cago building committee. CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS • SEPTEMBER 7, 2020 37

MELISSA VENTRONE KIM WALBERG KELLY WARNER DONNA WELCH ANNA WERMUTH Member Partner Partner Partner Member Clark Hill Taft Stettinius & Hollister Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila Kirkland & Ellis Cozen O’Connor As a leader of the cybersecuri- Kim Walberg is a partner in Taft’s At Riley Safer, Kelly Warner Partner Donna Welch focuses Anna Wermuth is vice chair of ty, data protection and privacy commercial litigation practice maintains a commercial litiga- on litigation involving breach of Cozen’s Labor & Employment team, Melissa Ventrone focuses group. With the advent of video tion and white-collar practice. duciary duty, fraud, conspira- Department and represents her team on management to gaming, Walberg became a pio- She serves as deputy general cy, civil RICO and other dis- employers in litigation and minimize damage by limiting neer in video gaming litigation, counsel of the rm and is a putes. Welch is national counsel labor relations matters. She also public or setting industry member of for Allergan in established regulatory precedent in the marketing, thousands of a practice fallout. Ven- the area of the technology opioid cases representing trone co-chairs enforceability and profes- and is on the colleges and Asset360, an of prelicen- sional practice defendant’s universities in interdisciplin- sure contracts committees. steering com- faculty, sta ary group of between video Warner is mittee for fed- and student lawyers and terminal oper- representing eral multidis- litigation. sta that han- ators and es- an individual trict litigation. Wermuth is dles cyberse- tablishments. who spent 30 Welch was leading de- curity and data privacy. Over the Walberg has challenged local years incarcerated for a crime he co-lead counsel in a Wisconsin fense of a Fair Labor Standards past 18 months, Ventrone has taxes that threaten the gaming did not commit and is litigating case involving breach of du- Act collective action involving mitigated attacks and assisted industry’s protability. Last against a nursing home chain’s ciary duty, fraud and conspiracy the novel question of whether companies by responding to year, she represented the Illinois former executives for civil RICO claims arising out of a scheme notice of action should be issued ransomware attacks. She has Gaming Machine Operators, claims. She was an assistant involving corporate fraud and to class members who agreed saved clients millions of dollars which joined with the Illinois special prosecutor appointed kickbacks. She obtained a $203 to arbitrate their claims on in- through negotiations with those Gaming Board to successfully to investigate police ocers in million verdict, the largest civil dividual basis. Wermuth joined holding data and systems hos- defend a challenge to the struc- connection with the shooting verdict recorded in Wisconsin. Cozen O’Connor in 2015 from tage. Ventrone joined Clark Hill ture of the state’s gaming law. of Laquan McDonald. Warner Welch is on the Chicago oce Meckler Bulger Tilson Marick & in 2018 from ompson Coburn, Walberg serves on Taft’s execu- joined Riley Safer as a founding pro bono committee, operations Pearson, where she was man- where she was a partner and tive and diversity and inclusion partner in 2016 from Schi Har- committee and associate review agement-side labor and employ- chair of the data privacy practice committees. She’s a member of din. She is a director of the Chi- committee. She’s a member ment litigation partner. She is team. Ventrone served in the Taft’s new Inclusion Task Force cago Bar Foundation and chair of the Housing Opportunities management vice chair for the Marine Corps Reserve for 21 to combat racism in the wake of of the grants committee, where for Women Leadership Coun- ABA Labor & Employment Law years, including as company George Floyd’s killing. And she she oversees the distribution of cil. And she has served on the Section’s National Trial Advo- commander of a 200-person is coordinator of Taft’s program funds annually to legal aid and boards of Business & Profession- cacy Competition. Wermuth unit and executive ocer of a to assist associates from diverse pro bono organizations. al People for the Public Interest serves on the board of Chicago 329-person company deployed backgrounds with sponsorship and Leadership Greater Chicago Youth Centers. She’s a frequent to Afghanistan. and career development. Fellows Association. speaker at conferences.

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MARY WILSON GRETCHEN WOLF NORMA ZEITLER Managing partner Partner Partner FEMALE LAWYERS’ WEEKLY SALARY AS A Dentons US Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Barnes & Thornburg PERCENTAGE OF MALE LAWYERS’ SALARY Mary Wilson, Dentons’ rst Flom Norma Zeitler serves as employ- female U.S. managing partner, Litigation partner Gretchen ment and litigation counsel to 2006 70.5% also is a national nance and Wolf specializes in government nonpro t, health care, hospital- 2007 77.5% health care specialist. In her enforcement and white-collar ity and manufacturing clients. managerial role, Wilson helps crime. Recently, she represented Drawing on her background 2008 80.5% oversee the J.P. Morgan as an intelli- 2009 74.9% rm’s Golden Securities in gence ocer, Spike initiative resolving a she conducts 2010 77.1% launched ear- class action harassment lier this year, that alleged a investigations. 2011 86.6% incorporating conspiracy to During the 2012 79.6% law rms manipulate pandemic, from India- the market Zeitler has 2013 78.9% napolis and for govern- counseled cli- Pittsburgh in ment bonds. ents on novel 2014 83.0% a dual partnership model that And she represented JPMorgan legal issues, including canceling 2015 89.7% allows lawyers to be members of Chase Bank in antitrust litiga- national conferences, analyzing their current rm and the new tion arising out of an alleged whether businesses could con- 2016 77.6% national partnership. Wilson conspiracy to manipulate tinue operations amid shutdown 2018 80.0% teamed with Dentons’ diversity foreign exchange rates. Wolf es- orders, and keeping workers and inclusion director for an tablished herself as an expert on safe. She has been advising initiative that assigns a diversity electronic discovery issues and boards, CEOs and HR profes- Women in the federal judiciary partner to each practice group writes on the topic. As co-chair sionals on social justice issues Representation of female judges in U.S. federal courts for transparency in assignments of the rm’s Global Women’s growing out of the Black Lives and promotions. is year, Initiatives Committee, Wolf Matter movement. At the rm, 33.3 percent Wilson helped design a mento- spearheaded the development Zeitler helps oversee associate of the seats on the Supreme Court are held by women. ring program that pairs board of a rmwide virtual mentoring performance and development members with associates from and networking program for and aids in committee eorts to diverse backgrounds. In her newer female partners. She is on promote racial justice. Before 36.8 percent practice, Wilson advised Dignity the Chicago diversity committee becoming a lawyer, Zeitler was of the seats on the Circuit Court of Appeals are held by women. Health on $6 billion in debt and is partner mentor to Skad- a U.S. Army ocer, serving as a consolidation in connection den’s LGBTQ+ anity group. company commander in Turkey 34.0 percent with the 2019 deal closing that Wolf serves on the boards of the during Operation Desert Shield of Federal District Court judges are women. created CommonSpirit Health. National Immigrant Justice Cen- and Operation Desert Storm and Note: The report omitted 2017 data. ter and the Chicago Foundation as an intern to the Joint Chiefs Source: American Bar Association’s “A current glance at women in the law,” April 2019 for Women. of Sta.