Alumni

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 ...

On Friday, October 6, Tina Tchen and Neil Eggleston — alumni of Northwestern Law and the Obama Administration — shared candid reflections from their time in the White House at an Alumni Weekend ...

In a June episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the HBO host took on the coal industry and President Trump’s promise to bring back more coal jobs. The segment featured coal mining ...