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Alyana J. Abellar
Alyana J. Abellar
Alyana J. Abellar is an associate at Blacha Law Office, in Naperville, and concentrates her practice on family law, immigration, and probate. Abellar is a member of the Chicago, DuPage County, and Kane County Bar Associations as well as the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. She received her B.A. from the University of the Philippines Diliman and her J.D. magna cum laude from Michigan State University College of Law. She also has received Jurisprudence Achievement Awards for Immigration Law, Trust and Estates, Torts, and Sales and Leases.
Bruce A. Boyer
Bruce A. Boyer
Bruce A. Boyer is a Curt and Linda Rodin Professor of Law and Social Justice and Director of Civitas ChildLaw Center. He is a former member of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, a former Chair of the ABA Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Boyer received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Stephen M. Dore
Stephen M. Dore
Stephen M. Dore is regional counsel for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in Chicago. He is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association. Dore received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
Kathryn Huber Kenyon
Kathryn Huber Kenyon
Kathryn Huber Kenyon is a domestic violence staff attorney with Legal Aid Chicago (formerly LAF) in Chicago. She received her B.S.W. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her M.S.W. from Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work, and her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law.
Rachel M. Koch
Rachel M. Koch
Rachel M. Koch is an assistant public defender at the Office of the Cook County Public Defender, where she represents parents in the Family Defense Conflicts Division. Koch is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law, where she teaches education law and policy and criminal evidence. She received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, her M.A.T. from the University of Chicago, and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.
Elizabeth E. Nohren
Elizabeth E. Nohren
Elizabeth E. Nohren is a Managing Partner at Dove & Dove, Attorneys at Law, in Shelbyville, where she concentrates her practice on family law. Ms. Nohren has been named a Leading Lawyer and an Emerging Lawyer and is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. She received her B.A. from Illinois Wesleyan University and her J.D. from Southern Illinois University of Law.
Nrupa Patel
Nrupa Patel
Nrupa Patel is a Partner at BRE Law in Decatur, where she focuses her practice on family law, criminal defense, DCFS appeals, and expungements. She is a member of the Decatur and Illinois State Bar Associations and a recipient of the Decatur Bar Association’s Russell D. Hoerbert Pro Bono Award (2019). Ms. Patel received her B.A. magna cum laude from Bradley University and her J.D. cum laude from the Northern Illinois University College of Law.
Anita Weinberg
Anita Weinberg
Anita Weinberg is a Curt and Linda Rodin Clinical Professor of Law and Social Justice, Co-director of the Civitas ChildLaw Center, and Director of the Legislation and Policy Clinic and the ChildLaw Policy Institute at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Weinberg was a principal drafter of the permanency and best-interests provisions of the Illinois Juvenile Court Act. She is also a member of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Advisory Council to the Director. She is the 2014 recipient of the St. Ignatius Loyola Award for Excellence on Teaching with a commitment to raising global awareness, promoting social justice, and educating the whole student. Weinberg received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, her M.S.S.W. from Columbia University, and her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Alyana J. Abellar

Bruce A. Boyer

Stephen M. Dore

Kathryn Huber Kenyon

Rachel M. Koch

Elizabeth E. Nohren

Nrupa Patel

Anita Weinberg

Child Welfare Law: Neglected, Abused, and Dependent Minors (ARCHIVED 2021 Edition)