Emily Satterthwaite is the assistant director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Law School.  Under Emily's guidance, Chicago law students take their first steps into the practice of law by providing legal advice to lower income entrepreneurs. Among other assistance, Emily and her students have created corporate bylaws that are customized to clients' specific business needs and goals, represented the owner of an e-business in his negotiations with strategic partners, and fought on behalf of the owner of a cleaning and decorating service to hold his customer accountable under the agreement governing their relationship.  Along with Director Beth Milnikel, Emily also instructs a seminar on entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Law School to introduce law students to the vital role played by entrepreneurs and the legal obstacles they must overcome.

Emily received her B.A. in Economics with Distinction from Yale College in 1997, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Political Monthly (now the Yale Political Quarterly). After studying for one year in the Ph.D. program in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, Emily attended Stanford Law School and was a founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Club.  Following her graduation, Emily was awarded a Dorot Fellowship and lived in Jerusalem for one year.  Emily comes to the IJ Clinic from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City and Chicago, where her practice focused on the federal income taxation of certain business entities.