Alumni

Army Veteran Michael Bassi (JD ’19) loved serving his country but wanted to test his potential outside of the military. He chose to pursue a law degree and it opened up doors he couldn’t even ...

On Friday, April 12, Dean Yuracko will present awards to eight distinguished alumni at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s sixth annual Alumni Awards Luncheon.

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are #NLawProud to share Justice Richard Bernstein’s incredible story. Justice Bernstein (JD ’99) was born blind and in 2014 ...

In 2018, a diverse group of 49 Northwestern Law alumni secured clerkships with state, federal, and even international courts, continuing the school’s recent clerkship successes. In addition, 22 ...

Derek Jones (JD-MBA ’18) combined his dream of becoming a lawyer with his experience in tech and intellectual property in Northwestern’s JD-MBA program.

The newest collection in the Pritzker Legal Research Center doesn’t contain a single book, journal or article. Instead, the Law School library has been hard at work archiving records of a ...

While the number of women in elected office across the country has been slowly increasing, in 2017, they made up only 21 percent and 19.6 percent of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, ...

Kobby Lartey (JD ’18) grew up watching lawyers work at the forefront of the new democracy movement in Ghana. Now he intends to use his law degree to help people in the United States, Ghana, ...

In 1994, 25-year-old Alton Mills was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole by a judge who had no choice. More than two decades later, after all his appeals had failed, he was given a ...