Elizabeth Wang

Ms. Wang joined the firm in the fall of 2008 and focuses her practice on wrongful convictions, police brutality, denial of medical care, and First Amendment issues. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 2006-07, Ms. Wang served as a law clerk for the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to her clerkships, she worked as a Fellow at the Drug Law Reform Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she represented South Asian convenience store owners who were racially targeted by law enforcement in rural Georgia.

Elizabeth Wang graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2005. During law school, she worked in the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic and served as President of the Chicago Law Foundation, a non-profit that raised funds for law students to do summer public interest work. Prior to law school, Ms. Wang worked at the Cato Institute, where she researched alternatives to incarceration for drug offenders.

In addition to practicing law, Ms. Wang is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, where she co-teaches a clinic on wrongful convictions with other Loevy & Loevy attorneys.

Ms. Wang lives in Chicago with her husband, son, and beagle, Bagel.