02/08/2021
Congratulations to Kayla Bowden and Destinee Burrell, who won Best Petitioner's Brief and were Quarter-Finalists in the Midwest Black Law Students Association regional of the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition. This is the second year in a row that UIC John Marshall Law School has brought home the Best Brief award; last year, Destinee and partner Kimberly Cross did the honors.
The issue concerned prisoner rights, and the team was coached by Alexis Carr, Cook County Assistant State's Attorney/Civil Rights Torts Unit. Thanks also to mooters Magistrate Judge Beth Jantz, Northern District of Illinois; Professor Steve Schwinn; Sharon Cannon, Chief of Staff UIC John Marshall; Adjunct Professors Andrew Lambertson and Christina Faklis-Adair; and practitioners Mallory Littlejohn, Legal Director of Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation and Danielle Berkowsky, Uptown People's Law Office.