Alanna Elinoff '18 and Stefanie Ferrari '18 receive the 2018 Gary Laser Professionalism Award
Alanna Elinoff and Stefanie Ferrari, both May 2018 graduates of Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech, have been selected to receive the 2018 Gary Laser Professionalism Award.
Created in 2017, the endowed prize recognizes students working in the Law Offices of Chicago-Kent who have best exemplified promise as practitioners as well as the highest standard of ethics. The award is named in honor of Professor Gary Laser, who founded Chicago-Kent's in-house clinical education program, the nation's first fee-generating teaching law firm, in 1976. Winners are chosen by the law school's clinical faculty.
Alanna Elinoff worked in the Tax Practice with Professor Jon Decatorsmith from August 2017 through April 2018. During law school, she was a Chicago-Kent Honors Scholar and president of both the Art and Cultural Property Law Society and the Kent Justice Foundation. Elinoff was a member of the Chicago-Kent team—the only one from the United States—selected to compete in the final rounds of the 2018 Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot in Vancouver, Canada. She was a summer associate at Fox Rothschild LLP in 2017 and externed with the Honorable Charles P. Kocoras of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She will work at Fox Rothschild as an associate in September.
Elinoff graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.A. degree in international studies and French studies. Before enrolling in law school, she worked as a pastry chef at Chicago restaurants Endgrain, Table Fifty-Two, and Girl & the Goat.
Stefanie Ferrari worked in the Civil Litigation Clinic with Professor Laurie Leader in spring 2017 and spring 2018. She served as a 2017‒18 notes and comments editor for the Chicago-Kent Law Review and was a member of Women in Law and the Justinian Society. In fall 2016, she was a teaching assistant for Distinguished Professor Richard Wright's Torts class. Since March 2016, she has worked as a law clerk for Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman and Dicker LLP in Chicago. Ferrari graduated fourth in her class from Chicago-Kent. She will work as an associate at Wilson Elser later this year.
Ferrari earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. During college, she worked as a student employee in the Office of University Counsel and worked as a summer intern at Alfred D. Stavros & Associates in Wheeling, Illinois.
Founded in 1888, Chicago-Kent College of Law is the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, also known as Illinois Tech, a private, technology-focused, research university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, architecture, business, design, human sciences, applied technology, and law.
