Tracie R. Porter Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Porter brings to Chicago-Kent over a decade of experience as a litigator and transactional lawyer in the public and private sectors. Prior to becoming the principal of the Law Offices of Tracie R. Porter LLC, Professor Porter was a senior real estate associate at Brown, Udell & Pomerantz Ltd., a commercial real estate/corporate associate at Barnes and Thornburg’s Chicago office, and a labor litigation attorney at the U.S. Department of Labor in Chicago. She has represented clients in both federal and state courts, handled multi-million-dollar real estate transactions, and litigated matters involving landlord/tenant disputes, probate proceedings and chancery actions. She started teaching in 2004 as an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent and The John Marshall Law School. She joined Chicago-Kent’s full-time faculty in 2006.

Professor Porter is an active member of the ABA’s Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, where she currently serves as a member of the Community Outreach and Diversity Committees. Professor Porter has served on the executive board of the Cook County Bar Association and the board of directors for the Black Women Lawyers’ Association. She is an experienced lecturer and has given lectures on both the national and local levels for the American Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, Cook County Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association and the National Business Institute. She has also been quoted and featured in various news media, including the real estate section of the Chicago Tribune, the Citizen Newspaper, WFLD-TV FOX 32, the Library Public Access Cable and Chicago Cable Access television program.

Professor Porter has a J.D. from Drake University Law School where she was an NAACP Earl Warren Scholar and a Sadie T.M. Alexander Law Scholar. While at Drake, she was also awarded the prestigious American Jurisprudence Award in International Comparative Law, inducted into the Order of Barristers for Moot Court Competitiveness and was selected by her classmates for the Tollefson Leadership Award (awarded to only one graduating student who demonstrates stellar leadership qualities). She received her B.A. in international business from Cornell College. She has studied European economic law, comparative international law and French at the Sorbonne in Paris.