Where Arguments Are Built Before They’re Won.
A granite-columned institution where career-changers, paralegals, and first-generation students learn to dismantle arguments with surgical precision — under the watch of professors who have argued before appellate benches and drafted legislation that became law.
Where Our Graduates Have Landed
Specific People. Specific Lawyers.
Every student who walks through Counsel’s doors carries a different story. What they carry out is the same: the discipline to argue, the doctrine to win, and the record to prove it.
I spent four years watching the system from the defense table. Counsel gave me the doctrine and the discipline to argue in front of judges who were once my professors' colleagues. The first time I sat at counsel table in an appellate courtroom, I was ready.
Managed 120-case felony docket
Merit scholarship recipient
National Appellate Advocacy Competition
Published on Fourth Amendment doctrine
Top 5% of class
Judge Eleanor Whitmore, Richmond, VA
My parents crossed a border I now argue across in court. During my 2L year I built the clinic from a borrowed conference room and one donated laptop. By graduation we had served 340 families. The law is a tool — Counsel taught me to pick it up.
Immigration services, Chicago
LSAC Fee Waiver recipient
Pro bono immigration representation
Recognized for 800+ pro bono hours
Dean's Award for Public Service
12 staff attorneys, 340+ families/year
Everyone told me I was walking away from a career. I told them I was walking toward an argument. Tech gave me the analytical framework. Counsel gave me the legal vocabulary to make it count. Law Review in my second year wasn't an accident — it was the plan.
Privacy & regulatory compliance team
LSAT 174 · Dean's Scholar
Technology and antitrust law focus
Antitrust group, Brussels & NYC
Offer to join permanent associate class
Antitrust & Competition Practice Group
Professors Who Have Argued the Cases
Every member of the Counsel faculty has practiced at the highest levels of the profession. They do not describe the law — they have made it.
Prof. Eleanor Whitmore
Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law
“The law is not memorized. It is argued. Every class is a courtroom.”
Prof. Desmond Okafor
Professor of Federal Criminal Procedure
“I drafted the suppression motions. I argued them. Now I teach you how.”
Prof. Miriam Callahan
Lawyering Skills & Appellate Advocacy Chair
“You will write every brief as if it will be read by someone who disagrees with every word.”
Prof. Jin-Ho Park
Professor of International Trade & Antitrust Law
“Antitrust is where economics meets power. I will teach you to speak both languages fluently.”
The Bench Doesn’t Wait. Neither Should You.
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