Mandel Clinic

Prior to his 1991 appointment to the Law School faculty as Director of the Mandel Clinic, Mr.

Alison Siegler is the Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s Federal Criminal Justice Project, a new clinical project that represents indigent defendants charged with federal crimes.  She also teaches Criminal Procedure II and Federal Sentencing.  She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a BA in Humanities in 1995 and received her JD from Yale La

Randall Schmidt received his BA in 1976 from the University of Illinois  and his JD from the Law School in 1979. Following law school, Mr. Schmidt practiced law with the Chicago law firm of Aaron, Schimberg, Hess, Rusnak, Deutsch and Gilbert. At that firm, he practiced in the area of commercial litigation.  

Jeff Leslie graduated from Yale College magna cum laude in 1992 and graduated from the Yale Law School in 1997, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal and a student director of the Housing and Community Development clinical project. He then clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Following a year practicing criminal law, Mr. Heyrman returned to the Law School as clinical teacher in 1978. His principal responsibilities involve teaching effective advocacy to students of the Law School's Mandel Clinic through supervising these students in litigation and legislative advocacy on behalf of persons with mental illness.

Prior to his 2000 appointment to the Law School Faculty, Craig Futterman was the Director of Public Interest Programs and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. He graduated with the highest distinction from Northwestern University in 1988, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Economics. He then graduated from Stanford Law School in 1991.

Herschella Conyers received her BA from the University of Chicago in 1972 and her JD from the Law School in 1983. Prior to joining the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic in the fall of 1993, Ms. Conyers served as an assistant public defender, a supervisor, and a deputy chief in the office of the Cook County public defender.