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Alison Siegler : Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION 

Georgetown University Law Center
LLM in Advocacy, May 2006

Yale Law School
JD, 1998

  • Yale Law Journal, Senior Editor
  • Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Executive Editor
  • Coker Fellow: Teaching assistant and legal writing instructor for Professor Peter Schuck

Yale University
BA in Humanities, magna cum laude, 1995

  • Honors in the selective Humanities Major for distinguished classwork and thesis

Yale in London Program, London, England
Spring 1994

  • Studied at Yale’s Paul Mellon Center for British Art

EXPERIENCE

The University of Chicago Law School
Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Project, 2008-present

  • Founded and direct the nation’s only legal clinic solely devoted to representing indigent clients charged with federal felonies.  Currently represent clients in U.S. District Court, in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals,  and in a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States; train and supervise law  students appearing in court. Teach Criminal Procedure II and Federal Sentencing; supervise independent  study projects.  Co-Founder of the Faculty Teaching Committee; founder of and faculty adviser to the Criminal Law Society, a student organization; faculty adviser to The University of Chicago Law Review.

Lecturer in Law, Fall 2007

  • Seminar: “Federal Sentencing: Balancing Judicial and Prosecutorial Discretion”

Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL
Staff Attorney, 2002-2008

  • Represented indigent clients charged with federal crimes in the federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • Represented clients at every stage of the criminal process, including serving as lead counsel in federal jury trials, Seventh Circuit appeals, and petitions for writs of certiorari to the Supreme Court.

DePaul University College of Law
Lecturer, 2005, 2006

Georgetown University Law Center
E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow, Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic, 2000-2002

  • Represented indigent clients charged with felonies and misdemeanors in D.C. Superior Court; taught and supervised third-year law students representing misdemeanor clients in court; taught weekly trial practice and skills classes.

Judge Robert W. Gettleman, U.S. District Court, N.D. Ill.
Law Clerk, 1998-2000

Public Defender Service, Washington, DC
Law Clerk, Summer 1998

Capital Defender Office, New York, NY
Law Clerk, Summer 1997

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL
Summer Associate, Summer 1997

New Haven Legal Assistance Assoc., Special Public Defender, New Haven, CT
Extern, Spring 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Admitted to practice in Illinois & the District of Columbia
Member, Seventh Circuit Bar
Member, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Bar
Member, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar
Member, Federal Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section
Member of the Board of Directors, Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Member of the Board of Advisors, American Constitution Society Chicago Lawyer Chapter