Family Law Center 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. 

2025-26 FLC Advisory Board

Current Advisory Board Members

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

Aggie Baumert (BS '07) 
Baumert Law

Elka Blonder 
Cooper Trachtenberg Law Group, LLC

Amanda Carlson 
Student Representative

Zachary Cohen (BA ’11) 
Berger Schatz

Lucas Godwin (JD ’23) 
Life Span

Chimene Granados (JD ’19) 
Reed Centracchio & Associates

Alexandra Greenberg (JD ’16), Vice-Chair
Davis | Friedman

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

Sarah Hawkins, Chair 
Cook County Office of the Public Guardian

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

Jonas Hwang (JD ’22) 
Hoffenberg & Block

Simul Jhaveri 
Jhaveri Gorajski Law, LLC

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

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

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

Olga Stambler 
Hurst, Kay, Allen & Stambler, LLC

Ameena Syed (JD '19) 
Arnoux Sharma Standeford, LLC