Job Title Category: Associate

  • Valeria Chavez

    Valeria Chavez

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    Valeria Chavez

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Valeria Chavez focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

    While in law school, Valeria worked as a certified student attorney at Duke University’s Children’s Law Clinic and as a summer associate at McDermott.

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    • Duke University School of Law, JD
    • Vanderbilt University, BA, magna cum laude
    Admissions
    • Florida
    Languages
    • English
    • Spanish
  • Jordan V. Fluke

    Jordan V. Fluke

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    Jordan V. Fluke

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Jordan V. Fluke focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

    While in law school, Jordan served as a judicial intern for US District Judge Susan C. Bucklew, US Magistrate Judge Julie S. Sneed, and US Bankruptcy Judge Caryl E. Delano at the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida. She also was a summer associate at McDermott and an articles editor for the Florida Law Review.

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    • University of Florida Levin College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • University of Florida, BA, cum laude
    Admissions
    • Florida
    Languages
    • English
  • Sarah Storti

    Sarah Storti

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    Sarah Storti

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Sarah Storti focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

    While in law school, Sarah was the managing articles editor of the University of Illinois Law Review. She also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Michael M. Mihm of the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois and as a summer associate at McDermott.

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    • University of Illinois College of Law, JD, magna cum laude
    • University of Virginia, PhD
    • University of Virginia, MA
    • DePaul University, BA
    Admissions
    • Illinois
    Languages
    • English
  • Mattison Johnston

    Mattison Johnston

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    Mattison Johnston

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Mattison Johnston focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

    While in law school, Mattison was a summer associate at McDermott and an articles editor for the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business.

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    • Impact Grants Chicago, member
    Credentials
    Education
    • Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, JD, cum laude
    • American University, BA, magna cum laude
    Admissions
    • Illinois
    Languages
    • English
  • Austin J. Bull

    Austin J. Bull

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    Austin J. Bull

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Austin Bull focuses his practice on general corporate matters and transactions.

    While in law school, Austin was a notes editor for the University of Illinois Law Review and editor-in-chief of the Illinois Business Law Journal. He also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable John Robert Blakey of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and was a summer associate at McDermott.

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    • Indiana Army National Guard, logistics officer
    Credentials
    Education
    • University of Illinois College of Law, JD, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • Indiana University, BA
    Admissions
    • Illinois
    Languages
    • English
  • Alexandra Alvarez

    Alexandra Alvarez

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    Alexandra Alvarez

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Alexandra Alvarez focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

    While in law school, Alexandra was a staff editor for the Loyola Consumer Law Review and a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court. She also was a summer associate at McDermott.

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    • Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD, magna cum laude
    • Florida International University, BBA, cum laude
    Admissions
    • Illinois
    • Florida
    Languages
    • English
    • Spanish
  • Elizabeth L. Tran

    Elizabeth L. Tran

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    Elizabeth L. Tran

    Associate

    Los Angeles

    Areas of focus

    Elizabeth L. Tran focuses her practice on litigation involving trust and estate issues. She has experience with conservatorships, real estate matters, corporate and commercial disputes, and other civil litigation at the state and federal levels.

    Following law school, Elizabeth completed a three-year clerkship at the US Court of Federal Claims, Office of Special Masters.

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    • Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance, member
    Credentials
    Education
    • New York Law School, JD, magna cum laude
    • University of California, Davis, BA
    Admissions
    • California
    • New York
    Courts/Agencies
    • US Court of Federal Claims
    • US District Court for the Central District of California
    • US District Court for the Southern District of California
    Languages
    • English
    • Vietnamese
  • Olivia S. Sica

    Olivia S. Sica

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    Olivia S. Sica

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Olivia S. Sica focuses her practice on US and international tax matters and tax controversy issues.

    While earning her law degree, Olivia worked as a tax and racial justice research assistant and served as a judicial intern at the US Tax Court and the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She was also an articles editor for the Journal of Law and Public Policy.

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    • The Florida Bar, Tax Section, member
    Credentials
    Education
    • University of Florida Levin College of Law, JD, BBA, cum laude
    • Loyola Marymount University, BSA, BA, summa cum laude
    Admissions
    • Florida
    Courts/Agencies
    • US Tax Court
    Languages
    • English
    • Spanish
  • Charles Y. Xiao

    Charles Y. Xiao

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    Charles Y. Xiao

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Charles (Charlie) Y. Xiao counsels high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, and their fiduciaries on a broad range of testamentary and inter vivos estate planning matters. He has experience drafting and customizing wills, revocable trusts, and irrevocable trusts, including large-scale grantor retained annuity trust programs, with particular attention to gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax considerations.

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    • Wills for Heroes, volunteer
    • Chicago Bar Association, member
    Credentials
    Education
    • Harvard Law School, JD
    • New York University, BA, summa cum laude, and with high honors
    Admissions
    • Illinois
    Languages
    • Chinese (Mandarin)
    • English
  • Lara Kimmel

    Lara Kimmel

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    Lara Kimmel

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Lara Kimmel focuses her practice on health law matters.

    While in law school, Lara was a member of the University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review.

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    Credentials
    Education
    • University of Miami School of Law, JD, cum laude
    • University of Michigan, BA
    Admissions
    • Florida