Blake Hannafan

Areas of Trial Practice	Business Litigation and Appeals Professional Malpractice Personal Injury/Products Liability Employment Law Antitrust and Securities White Collar Criminal Defense Patent Litigation
Bar Admissions	State of Illinois, 1998 U.S. District Court, Northern District of IL, 1998 U.S. District Court of Colorado, 2000 U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 2001 U.S. District Court, Northern District of IL Trial Bar, 2001 U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 2002 U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2002 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2003 U.S. Supreme Court, 2004 U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, 2004 U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, 2004
Education	Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO Doctor of Jurisprudence, 1998 Honors: Order of the Coif Honor Scholar Award 1996, 1997 Associate Editor Washington University Law Quarterly 1996-1998 Vanderbilt University Bachelor of Arts, 1995 Major: Political Science
Honors and Awards	Selected by peers as an Illinois Rising Star by Illinois Super Lawyer' publication, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011.
Professional Memberships	Member, The Lawyer's Club of Chicago Member, Chicago Inn of Court Member, Washington University School of Law Alumni Executive Committee
Past & Current Representative Clients	Integrys/People's Energy Corporation Maxis Corporation PIMCO Funds The Society of Lloyd's (a.k.a. Lloyd's of London) Trustee and Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Spiegel, Inc. Tierra Solutions, Inc. Former President of Refco Ltd., Tone N. Grant Unsecured Creidtors' Committee Former Chief Investment Officer of Xerox Corp., Myra Drucker Nationwide Holdings, LLC
Additional Experience	Winston & Strawn, 1998-2002 Associate, Litigation Department National Institute for Trial Advocacy, March 1999 Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, Jan.-May 1998 In-house Law Clerk Honorable E. Richard Webber, Sept.-Dec. 1997 Student Clerk/Intern
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