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JP advises emerging companies, non-profits, and individuals on startup law, appellate litigation, and federal regulation. Previously, he served as Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy at NAACP LDF and in the appellate practice of Sidley Austin LLP. A techie at heart, JP worked on open source projects beginning at age 16, researched recovery-oriented computing at Stanford’s Computer Science Department, and was Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Scientific Review. He is a graduate of Stanford (JD, MA, BA) and Harvard (MPP).

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Professor Carolyn Shapiro serves as Of Counsel to the firm and advises clients on appellate strategy, constitutional doctrine, and public interest law. She has argued cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Illinois Supreme Court. She previously served as the Solicitor General of Illinois, has been a faculty member at the Chicago-Kent College of Law since 2003 and is a former Supreme Court clerk.

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Rachael Yocum serves as Of Counsel to the firm and advises clients on compliance with a broad range of federal and state laws and regulations, including securities and data privacy law. Previously, she worked for over 9 years as an associate for prominent international law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., where she focused on high-stakes regulatory counseling and civil litigation. She is a member of the D.C. and New York Bars.

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