Alex Straka is a debt finance associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Experience
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial InternState Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh BradleyWisconsin Supreme Court
Prior Experience
Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 2018
PILI Fellow, UIC John Marshall Law School, Summer 2019
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Thought Leadership
Publications
Co-Author, "Foreign Law Students in the U.S.: A Preliminary Assessment," University of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1488, October 4, 2019
Comment, “Neither Seen Nor Heard: Impeachment by Prior Conviction and the Failure of the Wisconsin Rule to Protect the Criminal Defendant-Witness,” Wisconsin Law Review 1193, 2018
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2019Illinois
2019Wisconsin
Education
University of Wisconsin Law SchoolJ.D.magna cum laude2019
Wisconsin Law Review
CREECA-Carnegie Project Fellowship, 2018–2019
Order of the Coif
La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.P.A., International Affairs2015
Pi Alpha Alpha Honors
University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A., Economics & Political Science2014