Jessica Barnes

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Jessica Catherine Barnes 
Jessica Barnes
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP - Chicago
ChicagoIL

Jessica C. Barnes is an Associate in Chicago office of GRSM. She is a member of the firm's Environmental/Toxic Tort and Product & General Liability Practice Groups.

Jessica most recently practiced in civil litigation with a mid-sized firm, and before that she served as a judicial law clerk to Judge E. Kenneth Wright Jr., Presiding Judge of the Municipal Department in Cook County.

She is admitted to the Illinois Bar and to the Southern District of Illinois.

Jessica has served as an Associate Board Member for Cabrini Green Legal Aid since 2022 and on the Council for Dean’s Diversity Council at Loyola University Chicago School of Law since 2021.

Education

  • J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2020
    • - Thurgood Marshall Moot Court, National Quarter Finalist
    • - Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Fellow
    • - Judicial Extern, U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
    • - Annals of Health Law & Life Sciences, Staff Writer
    • - ABA Judicial Clerkship Program, 2020 Participant
  • B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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