SWLAW Blog | Future Students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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