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March 30, 2023

Meet the 2022-2023 Trial Advocacy Honors Program Senior Advocates

From motions in limine, opening statements, direct and cross exams, and closing statements — this order is on repeat all year for Senior Advocates in the Trial Advocacy Honors Program. Get to know these outstanding students in their second year as TAHP advocates.


Kat Brewer

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  • Year: 3L Part-Time Evening 
  • Future Aspirations: To work for a big TV studio! 
  • Activities: TAHP, Entertainment Law Society, Peer Mentor Program
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Legally Blonde 

 

 

 


Alana Chester

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  • Year: SCALE II 
  • Future Aspirations: Music Lawyer (litigation)
  • Activities: TAHP, Peer Mentor
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Hand In My Pocket" by Alanis Morissette
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul, and How to Get Away with Murder

 

 

 


Nazenin Eghbal

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  • Year: 3L Part-Time Evening 
  • Future Aspirations: Partner at a Plaintiff's Civil Litigation firm
  • Activities: TAHP, Dean's Fellow, DTP, Criminal Law TA, Contracts TA, RA for Professor Hart
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" by ABBA
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Primal Fear

 

 

 


Andrew Gianelli

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  • Year: 3L Traditional Day
  • Future Aspirations: Start my own civil litigation practice.
  • Activities: Managing Editor of Law Review, TAHP, Board Member of the Consumer Law Society
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Law & Order SVU

 

 

 


Rosemary Karapetyan

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  • Year: 3L Traditional Day
  • Future Aspirations: Deputy District Attorney
  • Activities: TAHP, Armenian Law Students Association, Criminal Law Society
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Pocketful of Sunshine" by Natasha Bedingfield
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Suits

 

 

 


Zara Mokhtar

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  • Year: 3L Part-Time Evening 
  • Future Aspirations: A wholesome fighter for justice!
  • Activities: TAHP, MIALS, DTP, Dean's Fellow, and Loyola's Project for the Innocent
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "U Remind Me" by Usher 
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: The Great Debaters 

 

 

 


Lily Pahlevani

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  • Year: 3L Traditional Day 
  • Future Aspirations: Senior VP of Business & Legal Affairs at Sony Music Entertainment or Senior Legal Counsel at Insomniac Events 
  • Activities: Working out, cooking, curating playlists, attending music festivals/concerts
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac  
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Legally Blonde, duh  

 

 


Amrita Patil

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  • Year: SCALE II
  • Future Aspirations: Deputy Public Defender, DNA Unit
  • Activities: TAHP, Mass Incarceration Awareness Law Society Co-President, National Alliance on Mental Illness Vice President, SCALE Peer Mentor
  • Go To Karaoke Song: Anything from Nicki Minaj's discography between 2009 and 2014
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: Daredevil, the Netflix show 

 

 


Lindsay Roginski

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  • Year: SCALE II
  • Future Aspirations: Open my own firm
  • Activities: TAHP, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Something to Talk About" by Bonnie Raitt
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: The new Lincon Lawyer

 

 

 


Ken Villanueva

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  • Year: 3L Part-Time Evening 
  • Future Aspirations: Have a big backyard for my dogs
  • Activities:
    • TAHP, Law Review, APALSA, DTP, Law & Medicine Society 
  • Go To Karaoke Song: "Something Like That" by Tim McGraw 
  • Favorite Legal Movie/Show: How to Get Away With Murder