Kosovec, Julie Lyons

Tara Thompson graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2003.  She served as the Senior Comment Editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum.  She also participated in the law school’s Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, working for several years in the Police Accountability Project.  She was a member of the clinic student board and received the Edwin F. Mandel award, given yearly to those law school graduates who most demonstrate commitment to and effective advocacy for clients.

Following law school Tara worked as an associate in Mayer Brown’s Chicago office, where she represented clients in a variety of litigation matters, including a significant commitment to pro bono representation.  She left Mayer Brown in 2006 to clerk for Judge Elaine Bucklo of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  After completing her clerkship, she joined Loevy & Loevy in 2007.  She has been admitted to practice by the Illinois Supreme Court, the Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois, and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

In addition to her work with the firm, Tara is also a Clinical Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she co-teaches the Exoneration Project, a clinic on wrongful convictions in the Arthur Kane Center for Legal Education, as well as other pretrial and trial litigation courses. Through the Exoneration Project Tara has represented several clients who have been exonerated and freed from prison for crimes they did not commit.

When not teaching and practicing law, Tara can be found playing hockey and cheering for the Utah Jazz.