MHS Grad, Lara Wagner profiled in Chicago Lawyer

Photo of Lara Wagner from article.

Manchester High School grad, Lara Wagner was profiled in the most recent issue of Chicago Lawyer. She talks about her decision to go into immigration law:

“Lara Wagner will readily admit her nascent legal career looks different than those of many of her University of Michigan Law School classmates. Or than what she envisioned while at the school, for that matter.

But thanks to her choosing the less-traveled road, more of Chicago’s immigrant community has representation.

Wagner is the founder and sole practitioner of The Law Offices of Lara Wagner, a firm founded through the Justice Entrepreneurs Project, a Chicago Bar Foundation-led incubator designed to help recent law school grads establish their own firms.
The Justice Entrepreneurs Project’s goal, organizers say, is to fill the ‘justice gap'”

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by Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is an editor, writer and founder of the Manchester Mirror.