The Honorable Jorge Alonso has served as a state and federal judge for fifteen years. He has served as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since December 2014. From 2003 to 2014, he was an associate judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, where he regularly presided over felony trials in the Criminal Division. Before joining the bench, he was an assistant public defender in the Cook County Public Defender’s office for more than eleven years.

The Honorable William Bauer is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where he has served since 1975 (including as chief judge from 1986 to 1993).  He served as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 1971 to 1975 and as U.S. Attorney for the district from 1970 to 1971.  In addition to serving as an Illinois state court judge for six years, Bauer served as State’s Attorney for DuPage County from 1959 to 1964.

The Honorable Jeffrey Cole has served as a magistrate judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since 2005. Before joining the bench, Cole was in private practice for 30 years. From 1969 to 1975, Cole was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, including serving as chief of the appellate division and assistant chief of the criminal division.

The Honorable Gary Feinerman has served as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois since September 2010. Before joining the bench, Feinerman was a partner in Sidley Austin LLP’s general litigation and appellate groups. From 2003 to 2007, he served as Solicitor General of Illinois. Feinerman was a litigation associate and then a partner from 1996-2003 in the the firm now known as Mayer Brown LLP. Feinerman served as a law clerk to Judge Joel Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court.

Daniel Bond has successfully litigated numerous high profile lawsuits for blue chip clients in a variety of fields, including cruise lines, social media, medical devices and implants, sporting goods, telecommunication products, consumer electronics, internet marketing, clothing, promotional products, and professional services. His practice encompasses a wide range of intellectual property and complex civil litigation matters, with a particular focus on trademark, copyright, false advertising, patent, Internet, trade secret law.  He is a member of Kirkland’s e-discovery committee and regularly consults on complex litigation matters across the firm.

Scott Renfroe is Chief, Supreme Court Practice with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (“ARDC”). He formerly held the positions of Senior Counsel and Group Manager in the ARDC’s Chicago office, where he supervised a group of attorneys and handled a caseload that included formal prosecutions involving allegations of conversion, billing fraud, conflicts of interest, and public corruption.  A former member of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the ARDC, Renfroe has spoken on issues of attorney discipline and professional responsibility before law firms, bar associations, law schools, the National Organization of Bar Counsel, and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.