Michelle Drake teaches Contract Drafting and Review at the Law School. Prior to joining the Law School, Michelle practiced corporate law at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP in Chicago where she focused on fashion, luxury, and retail law, and at Locke Lord LLP in Dallas where she focused on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

She has significant experience negotiating and drafting a wide range of corporate transactional documents, including purchase agreements, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, employment agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, IP licenses, and supply and distribution agreements. She also has experience negotiating and drafting entertainment industry contracts, including music licenses, license and multi-service agreements, filmmaker agreements, production services agreements, and casting director agreements.

Michelle has a BA in Philosophy and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin (2012), and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (2016).