Greg oversees Winston Taylor LLP’s pro bono practice in all firm offices, including the development of pro bono initiatives, special projects, and client relationships. He is nationally recognized for his leadership in the effective development of pro bono delivery models and systems, and has participated in numerous federal and state initiatives to increase pro bono services. In 2014 he was recognized as one of Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.

Greg is a founder of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, a group of more than 450 pro bono professionals from large law firms, whose mission is to expand access to justice and develop the skills of law firm pro bono practice leaders. He currently serves as a member of the emeritus board of directors. Among other activities, Greg has helped develop eligibility criteria for business pro bono entities, including nonprofits, small businesses, and social enterprises.

Prior to joining the firm, Greg was director and staff counsel of the American Bar Association Center for Pro Bono. In that position, he directed the center’s nationwide efforts of developing and supporting the pro bono initiatives of bar associations, law firms, corporate legal departments, law schools, legal services offices, and the judiciary.

Greg was an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law, where he taught the Pro Bono Practice and Policy seminar class.

Arthur worked for the US GAO after college and grad school.  He did his third year of Law School at Northwestern where he learned about and started interning at UPLC.

Since then, Arthur moved to Ravenswood where he and his wife still live, raised 2 children, worked for a law firm, started and sold a company that provided Nanny Tax services to clients around the country, started and retired from his own law practice, served on the board of a bank holding company and served on the board of a publicly traded company.  He also continued to volunteer to help UPLC, served for 8 years as board president of UPLC and has served as board treasurer of UPLC for another 8 years.  

Now retired, Arthur doesn't know how he found time to work.  He enjoys getting outside and exercising, sailing on Lake Michigan, going to good baseball games, traveling, making sure that UPLC remains on firm financial footing and trying to make sure his kids keep moving in the right direction.

Kristine serves as the National Chair of Seyfarth’s Commercial Consumer Class Action Defense Group. She has extensive experience with class action defense with respect to consumer issues, including, but not limited to, antitrust violations, consumer fraud, unfair trade practices, breach of warranty, breach of contract, unfair competition, and false advertising. She also focuses on privacy class actions, including data breach claims and claims alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, as well as state telephone solicitation laws, the Video Privacy Protection Act, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and other state privacy and data protect laws. Kristine has prepared and argued numerous successful motions to dismiss and other dispositive motions in class actions and complex litigation matters, including defeating several class certification motions.

Kristine represents clients with respect to class actions and complex litigation in a wide range of industries, including retail, personal care products, automotive, food and beverage, health care, and construction

Locke E. Bowman was the Executive Director of the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center for nearly three decades overseeing the Center’s operations at Northwestern law and in four other locations. Bowman has taught at The University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern University School of Law where he is Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus.

Bowman retired from the Justice Center and joined the law firm of Loevy & Loevy in 2022, becoming a partner there in 2025. Bowman has been involved in many of the important struggles for reform of the Illinois criminal justice system, including the abolition of the death penalty and the fight for accountability for Jon Burge and other corrupt Chicago police officers. As a civil rights attorney Bowman has won over $100 million in settlements and verdicts for victims of police misconduct and wrongful conviction. 

Throughout his career, Bowman has been honored for his dedication to justice, including the American Constitution Society’s Chicago Legal Legend Award; the First Defender Award and the Rev. Willie Baker Award for his work in bringing Jon Burge and his men to justice; the Clarence Darrow Award for his advocacy in support of Illinois’ death penalty moratorium; and the IVI/IPO Legal Eagle Award, for helping to expose Chicago Police corruption. Bowman was voted an Illinois “Super Lawyer” in multiple years.

Matt is Chair of the firm’s Law and Economics Group. Matt is an attorney and Ph.D. applied economist whose practice is at the intersection of law and economics.

Matt focuses his practice on the areas of antitrust and unfair competition law, intellectual property law, and the use of economic and statistical analysis in legal matters. With his skills and experience as well as the team of economists he assembled, he provides not only high-quality legal work product in a multitude of areas, but also comprehensive and thoughtful analyses of the potential economic consequences of legal decisions. Matt also serves as a consultant within the firm on various confidential matters for clients and coordinates a number of external expert teams in several large multidistrict litigations.

Priya Desai brings a cross-disciplinary legal practice spanning product liability, environmental law, and intellectual property. She advises clients in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular focus on regulated and emerging environmental contaminants, as well as intellectual property disputes in litigation, arbitration, and prosecution.

Priya’s practice includes representing clients in disputes involving product liability and environmental contamination, often at the intersection of regulatory compliance and scientific uncertainty. She works with clients in highly regulated industries to navigate litigation involving chemical exposure, environmental remediation, and risk management related to new and evolving contaminants. As a registered patent attorney, she provides strategic counsel across the IP lifecycle from patent prosecution to enforcement and defense in contentious proceedings.

Before entering private practice, Priya was deeply engaged in public interest work. While earning her JD, she provided legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence through The John Marshall Law School’s Domestic Violence Legal Clinic. She also served as a PILI Intern with CARPLS, a Chicago-based legal aid organization, and returned after graduation as a PILI Graduate Fellow. Today, she remains active in the Chicago legal community, serving on the CARPLS Professionals Board and the Uptown People’s Law Center Board, and as an Alumni Class Representative for PILI. She is also an ambassador for All Chicago and a member of the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago.

Ryan Dunigan is a board adviser, legal and business executive, and divisional general counsel with over a decade of experience in helping complex businesses in telecom, manufacturing, and other sectors to grow, seize opportunities, and protect against global risk. Today, Ryan acts as the divisional general counsel for Corning Optical Communications (COC), the largest subsidiary of global specialty glass, ceramics, and tech manufacturer Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), an S&P 500 component and Fortune 300 company.

As an operational leader, Ryan has run legal and cross-functional teams of up to 180 people with annual budgets up to $100 million, requiring talent planning and development, resource planning and allocation, and management of outside vendors to ensure high quality of legal services capable of meeting the needs of high-performing organizations.

Sarah has represented thousands of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, and their families, at trial and on appeal. She focuses on claims involving violations of the Constitution and federal law, including those involving death, denials of medical and mental health care, excessive force, and sexual assault against government officials and companies charged with safeguarding loved ones behind bars. She has recovered tens of millions of dollars on behalf of her clients, including record settlements and trial wins.

In addition to being a proven trial lawyer, Sarah is an experienced appellate lawyer in civil rights cases. She has been retained to protect multiple trial verdicts, including in a win before the en banc Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which affirmed an $11.5 million verdict on behalf of two women who were sexually abused in a local jail.

Sarah regularly consults and trains other lawyers representing incarcerated individuals and their families. Before co-founding Kaplan & Grady, Sarah established and led Loevy & Loevy’s Prisoners’ Rights Project.

In addition to her litigation practice, Sarah is active in the prisoners’ rights community. Among her many activities in the community, Sarah co-teaches the Civil Rights Litigation Clinic in the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, serves on the boards of the Illinois Prison Project and the Uptown People’s Law Center, and is a member of the advisory board of the Chicago People’s Rights Collaborative.

Marc R. Kadish is Mayer Brown's Pro Bono Advisor. He served as Director of Pro Bono Activities from 1999 through 2015. Marc oversaw the firm’s global pro bono program, cultivating pro bono relationships with firm clients and opportunities that benefit society while providing the firm’s lawyers with training, professional development and fulfillment. Marc also managed the firm’s financial contributions to legal organizations serving the public interest.

For more than 20 years before joining Mayer Brown, Marc was a clinical law professor, teaching such subjects as evidence, criminal law and lawyering skills. During his career, he has conducted more than 60 jury trials and numerous bench trials before Chicago-area state and federal courts.

Marc’s responsibilities include supervising and training newer lawyers. His direct representational or supervisory work has included matters pertaining to the death penalty, murder and other felonies, prisoners’ civil rights, immigration matters, and some transactional projects.

Marc has taught students at IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law and Northwestern for over 40 years. He’s worked with law students in many subject areas including lawyering skills, evidence and criminal law. During his time at Northwestern Law he helped to create and teach a course entitled “Large Firms and Pro Bono.”

Leslie Kuhn-Thayer is pro bono counsel in Sidley Austin LLP’s Chicago office. She coordinates the Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties firmwide initiative and supports the firm’s pro bono programming, services, and partnerships. Leslie focuses her practice on serving system-impacted clients, including prisoners’ civil rights litigation and compassionate release and other post-conviction relief.

Leslie is a former Sidley litigation associate. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Marvin E. Aspen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and to Chief Judge William C. Griesbach of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

She is an active member of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, the Northern District of Illinois Pro Bono Committee, and the Association of Pro Bono Counsel.

Levi Stahl is the publicity manager of the University of Chicago Press. He has reviewed books for the Chicago Reader and the Bloomsbury Review, and he blogs at I've Been Reading Lately.