Administration & Faculty

​Administration

  • Kathryn Liss
    Staff, Full Time
    Assistant Dean & Director, Office of Professional & Career Development; Executive Director, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center
  • Darrick Harris
    Staff, Full Time
    Assistant Director, Office of Professional & Career Development; Assistant Director, Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center

Faculty

  • Allison I. Ortlieb
    Faculty, Full Time
    Assistant Dean, Academic Operations; Professor of Legal Practice
  • Roberta R. Kwall
    Faculty, Full Time
    Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Founding Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT)

Adjunct Faculty

  • Molly Caesar
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Kimberly Cook
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Sara Gilloon
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Rachel Koch
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Diana Lopez
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Phillip J.  Mohr
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Danielle Ruffatto
    Faculty, Part Time
  • Patrick Ryan
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Olga Stambler
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Elizabeth J. Vastine
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Mario Ventrelli
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law
  • Robert Zielinski
    Faculty, Part Time
    Adjunct Professor of Law

Advisory Board   

The Center’s advisory board is comprised of successful, prominent members of the Chicago legal community who serve two to four year terms and advise on family law programming and participate in Center events. 

2025-25 FLC Advisory Board

Current Advisory Board Members

Olga A. Allen
Hurst, Robin, Kay & Allen, LLC

Jessica Alvarez (JD ’22, BA ’18)
Beermann

Erin B. Bodendorfer
Katz & Stefani, LLC

Amanda Carlson
Student Representative

Zachary Cohen (BA ’11)
Berger Schatz

Maria Citino
Citino Family Law, LLC

Lucas Godwin (JD ’23)
Life Span

Chimene Granados (JD ’19)
Reed Centracchio & Associates

Alexandra Greenberg (JD ’16)
Davis | Friedman

Laude Hartrum IV (JD ’20)
The Law Offices of Jonathan Merel

Sarah Hawkins, Vice-Chair
Cook County Office of the Public Guardian

Jonas Hwang (JD ’22)
Hoffenberg & Block

Mary Joly (JD ’01)
Cook County State's Attorney's Office

Aziza Khatoon (JD ’14, BA ’01)
Legal Aid Chicago

Caroline Lowenberg (JD ’23)
Schiller DuCanto & Fleck, LLP

Brianna Meyer (JD ’18, BA ’15)
Ventrelli Simon, LLC

Mallory Morgan (JD ’17)
Legal Aid Chicago

Lindsay Nathan
Ascend Justice

Jason Pica
Dussias Wittenberg Koenigsberger LLP

Emily Ruwe (JD ’22)
The Law Office of Erin M. Wilson, LLC

Patrick Ryan (JD ’05), Chair
Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP

Donald Schiller (JD ’66), In Memoriam
Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP

Helena L. Trachtenberg
Cooper Trachtenberg Law Group, LLC

Katherine Welz Herr (JD ’18)
Schiller DuCanto & Fleck