Maha Gardner is an Assistant State's Attorney with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, where she has served since 2010. Her experience includes serving as a Deputy Supervisor in the Juvenile Justice Division and as a lead prosecutor in the Felony Trial Division, where she prosecuted homicide cases and other violent crimes.

In addition to her work as an Assistant State's Attorney, Maha serves as the Chicago Chapter President of the National Asian Pacific Islander Prosecutors Association and serves on NAPIPA's national board. Maha earned her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School and her BBA from Loyola University Chicago.

Judy He

Judy He is a patent and trade secrets litigator who has represented companies across various industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, vaping devices, and more, from pre-suit to post-trial and appeal before federal courts. Judy also has experience with petitions before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and investigations before International Trade Commission (ITC). In 2024, Judy was one of the recipients of the American Bar Association’s “On the Rise” Award, which recognizes young lawyers who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and legal and community service.

Kim Leung

Kim Leung is a staff attorney for the Asian Law Caucus' National Democracy Initiative. Kim works with community organizations and nonprofits on voting rights and civic engagement. She has experience investigating, litigating, and advocating against violations of voting rights and election laws. She earned her J.D from the University of Wisconsin, where she interned at the Wisconsin Innocence Project. She received her B.A from the University of Michigan.

Kim grew up in a multilingual and limited-English-speaking household, and is passionate about the intersections of language and disability access, and racial justice.

Kim lives in Chicago, Illinois. She serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC), the professionals board for CARPLS legal aid, and the board for the Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago.

Elaine Liu

Elaine Liu is a Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement partner at Mayer Brown. She focuses primarily on litigation relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), in addition to her complementary substantive experience in labor & employment and a wide range of other complex litigation and investigations, such as those involving fraud, the False Claims Act, and consumer protection. Elaine has significant experience at all stages of litigation, whether in briefing and arguing dispositive motions, conducting fact and expert discovery, or representing clients at trial. In particular, Elaine has deep knowledge of electronic discovery and information governance, which is critical to overseeing expansive e-discovery in litigation, conducting forensic data investigations, and advising clients on best practices for managing ESI. Moreover, leveraging her background in economics, as well as a management consultant advising major corporations, private equity funds, and other investment firms on business strategy, Elaine has extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary expert teams and developing damages models to support litigation.

Elaine received her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and served as Editor-in-Chief and a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbia Business Law Review. Elaine received her AB cum laude with High Honors in Economics from Harvard University.

Alan Montera is a Partner at McAndrews whose practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and prosecution. Alan graduated magna cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and the Intellectual Property Law Society, as well as the treasurer for the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA). Prior to law school, Alan graduated with merit from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. As a junior officer, he was responsible for supervising the multi-million dollar S6W Nuclear Reactor, as well as navigating the submarine through international waters. While aboard, the Seawolf completed a six-month Western Pacific deployment and multiple significant maintenance and upgrade periods.

Romeo Quinto

Romeo Quinto is a retired biglaw litigation partner who represented some of the largest financial services, life sciences, and transportation companies in antitrust and complex business disputes for over 20 years. He now dedicates his time teaching advocacy, mentoring law students and junior attorneys with a special interest in helping those who are diverse and/or first-generation lawyers, and most importantly enjoying time with his family especially while traveling internationally. Romeo earned a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2000 and then clerked for the Hon. David D. Dowd, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the N.D. Ohio before starting private practice.

Saranya Raghavan

Saranya Raghavan is a Partner at King & Spalding. She focuses her trial practice on all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent litigation. She has years of experience counseling clients in connection with patent disputes. Her clients are companies in various high-tech and medical industries, including networking, telecommunications, semiconductor, computer hardware, cloud computing, and medical devices. Saranya is a Past President of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of Chicago. Prior to her legal career, Saranya was a software engineer for a leading online travel agency. Saranya received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, her M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida Tech.

Shannon Shin

Shannon Shin is a Partner at Dentons, where she represents and advises clients across a broad range of sectors in complex commercial litigation, appellate advocacy, and internal and government investigations.  She has broad experience litigating a wide variety of disputes, including in the areas of commercial real estate, financial services, complex insurance coverage, loan enforcement, product liability, transportation and general business disputes.  Shannon also conducts corporate internal investigations and provides legal counsel to companies that are the target of state attorneys general investigations, and represents clients responding to federal and state regulatory actions and other inquiries.  Her work also includes internal investigations of sexual misconduct.  Shannon also dedicates a portion of her practice to pro bono matters.  She co-authored a U.S. Supreme Court amicus curiae brief in support of petitioners in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, has represented prisoners in Section 1983 civil rights litigation, and represented a class of individuals with disabilities desiring to live in community-based settings instead of nursing facilities. 

Crain’s Chicago Business recognized Shannon as a member of its 2022 class of Notable Women in Law, and The Legal 500 has recognized her in the areas of Transport: Rail and Road – Litigation and Regulation and State Attorneys General.  She is a 2024 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and was a Fellow of the 2019 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Leadership Advancement Program.

Shannon co-chairs the Dentons Asian, South Asian, Pacific-American Professionals (“ASAPP”) affinity group and is a member of the firm’s Culture & Engagement Committee, and is she a member of NAPABA, the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago, and the Korean American Bar Association of Chicago.  She has served on the Ravinia Festival Associates Board, and was President of the Lyric Opera Young Professionals Board.