A Legacy of Producing Practitioners
Principal Attorney, Haque III Legal Practice, LLC (H3LP)
Saman Haque '20 first visited Conviser Law Center to support her brother, who had just been admitted. Five years later, they're both Chicago-Kent College of Law alumni, running their own firm with their younger brother, also a Chicago-Kent graduate.
“Chicago-Kent College of Law represents a lot of what [Chicago] represents—grit and a diversity of perspectives,” says Saman Haque ’20. “The beauty of attending Chicago-Kent was that all of the students I got to work with had unique stories of their path to Chicago-Kent and we all came from different walks of life but still knew how to respect and be open to each other’s points of view.”
Haque is the owner and principal attorney at Haque III Legal Practice, LLP, the firm that she recently opened with her brothers, Sameeul ’19 and Razaul ’23. The full-service firm provides support to small- and mid-sized businesses, offering practical business-minded legal services in a variety of practice areas. Haque focuses her time on labor and employment matters.
“I always say employees can often be an organization’s biggest asset or liability depending on how they manage the work environment,” she says. “I get to take all of the experiences and lessons I learned from my former positions and participate in ensuring that my client’s businesses are protected and that they comply with employment laws.”
Before starting her own firm, Haque honed her skills in several different environments.
Her first full-time gig out of law school was in the labor and employment section of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Civil Actions Bureau. She then pivoted to take a position at Seyfarth Shaw’s labor and employment practice group, where she further developed her litigation skills in private practice before moving on to Levenfeld Pearlstein to dive into the transactional side of employment-related legal work.
Now that she’s in the driver’s seat, Haque plans to use the skills and knowledge that she’s gained to help her clients and their workers.
“The thing that intrigued me about the legal system was that it created order within society to try and balance interests,” she says. “Going into law school, I wanted to help facilitate the balance and order in a world where things can sometimes get lost in the chaos.”
Haque wasn’t born with an inherent desire to be a lawyer. In fact, she was heavily leaning toward medical school until her older brother, Sameeul, was admitted to Chicago-Kent, and she came along to Admitted Students Weekend.
She decided to apply herself a few days later, and it’s a decision that she’s never regretted.
“I think Chicago-Kent has created a legacy of producing practitioners,” she says. “I felt like my time at Chicago-Kent was strongly guided by professors teaching practical skills that I consistently use in my practice. They tailored the academic experience to real-world situations so that we could actually learn applicable skills—not just regurgitate information.”
She credits her early success at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office litigating cases to her participation on Chicago-Kent’s trial advocacy team.
While in law school, Haque acted as president of the Muslim Law Student Association and vice president of the Women in Law Society. She was also awarded the Alumni of the Year award in 2022. This has continuously contributed her participation in bar organization after graduation. She will start her presidency at the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago in 2026.
Haque also says that the college’s legal writing program still informs her work.
“The writing skills are unmatched because of the rigorous writing program,” says Haque. “The practical approach that the professors choose to take creates for a different standard of how to practice law.”
Haque regularly returns to Conviser Law Center to speak to students, and she tells them that they should take advantage of every opportunity afforded to them, especially those offered because of the school’s location in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.
“The flexibility of being right in the middle of the city means that I could attend courses, go straight to a firm to clerk, and attend a bar organization even as a student,: Haque says. "Networking with attorneys in the city and bar organizations was instrumental to my growth as an attorney.”