Overview

Gwen H. Lemley is a litigation associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has broad-based litigation experience in general commercial matters in federal and state courts, including contract disputes, internal investigations, trade secrets, antitrust, intellectual property and environmental mass torts.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2022Illinois

Courts

  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Education

  • University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors2022

    Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Scholar

    Abrams Environmental Law Clinic

    Hinton Moot Court

    Research Assistant to Prof. Joshua Macey

    1L Representative, OutLaw & Law Women’s Caucus

  • University of AlabamaB.A., Historysumma cum laude2019

    Phi Beta Kappa

    Lee Davis Black and Florence Weinberg Black Memorial Award for Academic Merit in History

    President, Student Writers Guild

    Visiting Writers Committee

    Crimson Tide Ballroom Dancing

    History Honors Thesis: “White Supremacist Appropriations of Medievalism in the American South”

    Creative Writing Capstone: “Where the Salt Wouldn't Touch Your Hair”