Biography

Ms. Siegel is a litigation associate in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, where she represented the city in complex and high-profile matters in state and federal court and administrative proceedings. She has experience in all phases of litigation and has represented clients at oral arguments, hearings, and trials. For her accomplishments in her first year of service in the Corporation Counsel’s Office, she received the Rookie of the Year award. Ms. Siegel also completed a staff law clerkship with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

During law school, Ms. Siegel clerked in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice and completed a clinical program with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Civil Division in Brooklyn, New York.

Education

J.D., New York University School of Law (2001)

Public Service Scholar; Co-Editor-in-Chief, NYU Environmental Law Journal

M.S., New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (2005)

Mayor's Graduate Scholar

B.A., Tufts University (1992)

Admissions

• Illinois
• New York

Courts

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of New York