Purvi Shah

Legal Experience: Intern for Senator Dick Durbin, a legal clerk for a patent law firm in West Lafayette, IN, a 711 intern for Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office in the Felony Division.

What are you currently doing? Currently, I am working as a research assistant for Professor Marc Falkoff.  I am also busy with classes for my third year of law school and the extracurricular activities I am involved with.  I cannot believe that I am almost done with law school, it is so very bittersweet.  I am excited to begin working, but I will miss the wonderful and diverse faculty members and friends that I have become so close with over these past three years.

What do you like most about NIU Law? What I like most about NIU Law is the student/ faculty ratio. The professors here are very accessible if students have questions and students do not have to compete with a hundred of their fellow classmates for a professor's time.  Students get the individual attention they need. I do not know of any other law school that has professors with such open door policies.

Graduation Year: 2010

Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University

Undergraduate Major: Double majored in Political Science and Psychology, with a minor in History

Community Involvement: External Publications Editor of the Northern Illinois University Law Review, past president of the Asian and Pacific American Law Student Association and member of the Public Interest Law Society and Moot Court Society.

Home town: Bartlett, IL