For the Want of Justice
“I never see it that I’m the one defending the bad guys,” says Heather Widell ’12. “I’m defending people, and I’m defending the [United States] Constitution.” Widell has run her own firm, the Law...
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A Path to Redemption
“Everybody loves a good redemption story,” says Ginger Leigh Odom ’03. “Every sports movie is about coming from behind and having success, and I think that the expungement-and-sealing statute is an...
A Full Circle Legal Journey
Eileen O’Neill Burke ’90 was in the sixth grade when former justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow spoke to Burke’s class about her career as a judge. McMorrow went on to be the first woman to serve on the...
Defending by Example
“Mr. Ammoura, is that you?” It was summer 2011, and Ali Ammoura ’12 was a law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law when he heard a meek voice cut through the hustle and bustle of the lockup at the...
Surpassing Expectations
“Illinois Tech has made pretty much all of my dreams possible,” says Joseph Strom (LAW 3rd Year). “I had some idea of what I may want to do in the future, but was unsure how I would get there, what...
An Immersive Law Education
When Ivana Bailey-Muñoz (LAW 2nd Year) was volunteering at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Self-Help Resource Center at the Richard J. Daley Center in downtown Chicago, she helped a father and daughter...
On the Front Lines
“The first time I walked the picket line was when I was a college student,” AK Alilonu (LAW 3rd Year) says of an experience he had supporting graduate students at the University of Chicago during his...
The Rising Tide
When Mark Tamvakis ’25 attended the Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate Advocacy Competition banquet in his first year as a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was struck by the camaraderie and...
The Art of Law
“I got accepted to a couple of art schools, but I always wanted to be a lawyer,” says Joey Zawacki ’22. “I also wanted some kind of financial security, so I closed my little art dream and I put it...
A Rewarding Career
Before he went to law school, Thomas Donovan ’87 was a mechanical engineer looking for more. “I worked in the nuclear power industry, where I did piping stress analyses for nuclear power plants,” he...