Our Women Attorneys

A partner in the Labor and Employment practice area, Hope's extensive labor and employment practice is bolstered by her experiences as an in-house attorney for more than ...

Nicole understands that her electric and natural gas clients have varying comfort levels when dealing with matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),...

Robyn is an experienced patent litigator who represents clients in patent and trademark matters in federal courts.

Jennifer is a highly skilled labor and employment associate primarily focused on employment litigation.

Meredith provides strategic advice to clients in a wide variety of areas, including tax, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions.

As part of Thompson Coburn's Real Estate/Land Use group, Talar advocates for clients in land use, zoning and licensing matters throughout Chicago and its surrounding subu...

Christina Berish acts as a legal advisor and trial counsel in commercial matters.

Bonnie advises and advocates for clients on wholesale electric market rules and transmission access and pricing issues.

Cherie represents financial institutions and borrowers in various secured and unsecured lending transactions.

Mary has spent her nearly 40-year career representing major corporations in high-stakes trials and arbitrations across the region.

Kim is a passionate advocate for food, beverage and agriculture clients in high-stakes business disputes.

Eileen is an experienced litigator who represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes business disputes.

As Loss Prevention Counsel, Kristine assists with new client openings and the conflicts process and helps implement effective loss prevention protocols across the Firm.

Eileen is a successful negotiator and strategist who focuses on her clients' goals while keeping an eye on the big picture.

Brandi is a partner in the Business Litigation practice area where she focuses her practice on defending corporate clients in class action and complex commercial litigati...

Crystal practices in the firm's railroad litigation area.

Holly is an experienced litigator who has represented clients in a variety of high-stakes litigation and enforcement matters.

Libby assists clients with a wide variety of business litigation matters.

Sara defends clients in a variety of environmental litigation and regulatory enforcement matters.

Sarah helps individuals and families preserve their wealth by developing strategies to safeguard their assets in the most tax-efficient way.

Lauren assists clients with a wide variety of business litigation cases, including those involving real estate, labor and employment, and insurance matters.

Renee provides strategic counseling to companies on their most pressing environmental concerns, from statutory and regulatory requirements and legislative approaches, to ...

Adrienne represents clients in electric and natural gas pipeline matters, and counsels on compliance and enforcement.

Katie represents clients before bankruptcy courts, federal and state trial courts, arbitration panels and appellate courts nationwide.

Katie's practice encompasses a broad spectrum of intellectual property matters, including counterfeiting, patent and other trademark litigation for a wide range of client...

Cathy focuses her practice on employee benefits, taxation and closely-held businesses.

Laura represents clients in a variety of real estate transactions and financings.

Jayci is a member of the Litigation Group and represents clients in the areas of products liability, toxic torts, personal injury and railroad litigation.

Heather defends clients facing consumer products claims and commercial litigation.

Christine represents clients in complex litigation and government contracts matters.

Georgia serves as an estate planning advisor and personal general counsel to closely-held businesses, business leaders and other individuals.

Jackie's practice is focused on representation of individuals and families in the areas of estate planning and charitable giving and representation of nonprofit organizat...

Laura's practice is focused on all aspects of estate planning, including the preparation of estate planning documents, probate and tax law, tax planning and business succ...

Jenny is an experienced, strategic, trial lawyer who focuses her practice on health care, white-collar fraud and complex commercial litigation.

Misty represents companies facing litigation in high-risk venues across southern Illinois.

Elizabeth is a nationally known community development and tax credit advisor.

Caitlin identifies client goals and implements innovative solutions to achieve their desired results.

Suzanne is a versatile litigator who has spent her career finding solutions for clients facing difficult and protracted legal battles in a variety of industries and juris...

Barbara draws on her extensive background in regional government to counsel clients on the financing, zoning, and tax credit issues that crop up in public-private develop...

Vicky is a versatile commercial finance attorney who represents banks, investors, and borrowers in a wide variety of financing transactions and investments.

Melissa Gold is an experienced litigator who assists clients in all aspects of state and federal litigation.

Evan is chair of Thompson Coburn's Health Care practice and a member of the Firm's Executive Committee.

Jessica represents clients in estate planning, trust administration and probate matters.

Hospitals, health systems, physicians and other health care clients look to Milada, an attorney and registered nurse, for critical assistance on a range of complex regula...

Kayla draws on her FERC background to help clients navigate FERC settlement negotiations and litigation.

With more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry, Kristen helps develop tailored solutions for her clients.

Denise represents financial institutions in a variety of commercial financing transactions.

Jesse advises cooperatives and other clients as they navigate complex FERC proceedings and comply with FERC rules.

Ruthanne represents parties in complex commercial transactions, providing responsive advice on a variety of finance and sales matters.

Dana represents clients in complex litigation in both state and federal courts across the country, as well as in consolidated and multidistrict litigations.

Rachel is a passionate representative of clients in a variety of business disputes, tax controversies and general governance matters.

Julie represents clients in mergers and acquisitions and sophisticated securities offerings, and offers advice on a wide range of corporate matters.

Joy advises health systems, health plans, group purchasing organizations, physician groups, and other health care entities on a wide range of health care legal issues.

Amanda is a litigator and a highly experienced litigation trial team leader for Fortune 500 companies facing class actions and complex business disputes.

Nicole analyzes health care regulatory issues with an eye toward effective, proactive compliance for a broad range of health care clients.

Catherine counsels clients on a wide variety of international trade and transportation issues.

During her more than 30 years of legal practice, Lori has been helping clients solve some of the most challenging employee benefit problems.

Laura provides high-level strategic human resources counseling to executives and HR managers on the challenging legal questions that crop up during every phase of employm...

Cheryl represents lenders and obligors in complex finance transactions, loan restructurings, and bankruptcy, receivership, foreclosure and other proceedings involving cre...

Crystal has 30+ years of national environmental experience and leads the transactional area of the Firm's environmental practice.

Anne-Marie practices in the real estate and corporate sections in the firm with particular emphasis on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financing and developmen...

Recognized as one of the most influential women lawyers and most influential minority lawyers in Los Angeles by The Los Angeles Business Journal, Helen represent...

As a former health care executive, April strongly connects to the complex issues facing health care clients.

Michele serves as a key corporate securities and compliance advisor to public and private companies.

Sara is a trusted legal advisor to public entities, nonprofit borrowers, investment bankers and bankers in a wide variety of public financing and lending transactions.

Margie's practice spans more than 30 years representing borrowers, lenders, lessors, and lessees in structuring, negotiating, and closing financing transactions, includin...

Sarah advises corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance, corporate governance and general business counseling.

Katie represents a variety of clients in state and federal litigation and business disputes.

Janette has over thirty years’ experience practicing in all areas of state and local taxation, including representing clients before state and local taxing authorities in...

Susan is an experienced and trusted employment law advisor who counsels employers at every stage of a personnel-related issue.

Krissa practices human resources law, focusing on the representation of employers in employment litigation and client counseling.

As a member of the firm's business litigation practice area, Allison has extensive experience in trial preparation and practice in both state and federal courts.

Katriina helps clients navigate challenging land use and zoning issues throughout the City of Chicago and surrounding suburbs, paving the way for successful developments.

Meg serves as an advisor and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) counsel to municipally-owned utilities around the country.

Pam is an experienced civil litigator and a national leader on issues of civil rights and equal justice under the law.

Sara represents lenders, community development entities and investors in tax credit and financing transactions.

Martha practices exclusively in the areas of immigration and nationality law focusing in employment-based and family-based immigration cases.

Audrey is a partner in Thompson Coburn's business litigation group.

Gayle is a thoughtful and detail-oriented attorney valued by clients for her practical legal counsel.

Kim advises clients in the banking and commercial finance industries.

Emily works closely with company owners, executives, and boards on both their short-term and long-term business goals.

Amina represents financial institutions and borrowers in a variety of commercial financing transactions.

Elizabeth represents clients in high-stakes litigation across the country, including commercial disputes, product defects claims, and consumer fraud and securities fraud ...

Shoko helps companies protect their valuable brands in markets around the world through strategic trademark counseling and enforcement.

Lauren is a strategic, proactive bankruptcy attorney and litigator who fights for lenders and creditors of all kinds.

Kym works with companies in their dealings and contractual relationships with Federal government agencies.

Amy is an associate in the Firm's labor and employment practice.

Lauren draws on her extensive background in the health care industry to support clients in a variety of business and regulatory matters.

Ann concentrates her practice in the areas of complex civil and commercial litigation, including real estate litigation, title insurance litigation, mechanics lien litiga...

Emily is a litigation partner who represents companies, their executives and officers in a variety of business disputes.

Jennifer provides counsel to a broad range of clients in the health care and life sciences industries, including institutional providers, medical practices, health system...

Jennifer serves as primary outside counsel to a variety of individuals, institutions and companies, including entrepreneurs, venture capital firms and emerging companies,...

Melinda is a business immigration attorney who helps clients hire and retain foreign national workers in the United States and transfer employees between international of...

As Loss Prevention Counsel for Thompson Coburn, Joyce serves as the point person for loss prevention and conflicts of interest questions for attorneys across all five of ...

Jennifer is an experienced real estate attorney who provides guidance on a variety of complicated real estate transactions, including purchase and sales, leasing, financi...

Caroline represents a diverse group of clients in a variety of complex business and commercial litigation matters.

Elise brings her prior work experience from higher education and marketing to apply practical approaches to all stages of federal and state complex commercial litigation.

Ali is experienced in various types of tax-exempt and taxable financings as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel, disclosure counsel and bank counsel.

Erica guides clients and litigates in regulatory matters concerning natural gas and oil pipelines and electric utilities.

Clients look to Christina for practical solutions to their complex regulatory compliance problems.

Malini is a member of the Firm's product liability and business litigation practices.

Kacey practices in the Firm's Business Litigation and Labor and Employment groups, representing and counseling clients of varying size, from members of the Fortune 500 an...

As Loss Prevention Counsel, Catherine assists with new client openings, the conflicts process and helps implement effective loss prevention protocols across the Firm.

Diona represents financial institutions in commercial finance and secured transactions.

Health care providers, payers and other industry stakeholders rely on Tonya for sensible, strategic and holistic solutions to even the most complex legal, regulatory and ...

Sharon develops and executes highly effective class action defense strategies for major companies across a variety of sectors, including transportation, telecommunication...

Sarah represents clients in a diverse range of transactional and real estate finance matters, including acquisition and sales, development, financing, and leasing.

Allie represents investors, lenders and community development entities in transactions involving various forms of debt, equity and public financing, including federal and...

Debbie is a key legal advisor to public entities, investment bankers, banks and developers in all types of public finance and development incentive transactions.

Kristen litigates complex commercial disputes, class actions and state and local tax cases for companies in Missouri and across the country.

As a former Assistant United States Attorney, Claire advocates for clients in the areas of health care fraud and abuse, False Claims Act litigation and other complex whit...

Cathie defends clients in all types of business litigation in state and federal courts throughout Missouri and Illinois.

Lacey has extensive experience in all aspects of estate planning, estate and trust administration and charitable giving.

Linda advises companies that provide goods or services to the federal government; she also has extensive experience in business immigration matters.

Shannon represents property owners in real estate tax assessment proceedings in Cook County and throughout the state of Illinois.

Rebecca represents municipal and cooperative electric utilities in complex electric rate proceedings before FERC.

Kelly uses her experience with US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the US Department of Labor and the US Department of State to gain compliance for employers with al...

Amy advises employers on retirement plans, health and welfare plans, compensation packages and other benefits.

Jane serves as counsel to transit agencies across the country on a range of issues from funding to project development to procurement.

Sherri is an accomplished trial attorney with experience in a wide variety of civil litigation in state and federal courts.

Rose assists clients with a wide variety of business litigation matters.

Rhonda is a finance attorney who leads complex, large-scale projects for public- and private-sector clients across the country.

An attorney in the firm's corporate practice, Gia regularly advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance, corporate governance and general busin...

Jennifer is a partner in the Firm's Intellectual Property and Media Law practice groups.

Sarah represents lenders, banks and borrowers in complex financing transactions and provides in-depth regulatory counsel to clients in two of the most heavily regulated i...

Katie handles a wide variety of regulatory and transactional work for the nonprofit and for-profit higher education sector, including online education programs, and has e...

Felicia is a commercial litigator and has experience litigating complex business disputes and mass tort actions for Fortune 500 companies and other Firm clients.

Nicole is a highly experienced trial lawyer who represents clients in matters involving antitrust, advertising, fraud investigations and litigation, RICO, and class actio...

In an era of escalating pension liabilities and sweeping health care reforms, Trish serves as an employee benefits advisor to public and privately-owned businesses and go...

Kathy is a highly experienced litigator who has spent the majority of her career defending large corporations, including major auto manufacturers, in class actions across...

Lesley is an experienced leader with a passion for the development and training of professionals and the creation of seamless integration programs that enable professiona...

As an experienced litigator in Missouri courts and beyond, Maria has achieved significant results for clients in the banking litigation and fiduciary litigation arenas.