Faculty
About
After receiving her juris doctorate degree, Professor Leonhard clerked for the Honorable Christopher J. Armstrong in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals and subsequently joined the law firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP. Ms. Leonhard has represented multinational clients in complex commercial litigation matters and cross-border contract disputes involving Chinese companies. As a partner in the firm, her focus was Litigation, Business Regulation, and the Asia Pacific Practice Groups. She taught at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law as a visiting professor from 2008-2010 and then joined Loyola University New Orleans School of Law as a tenured faculty member in 2010, where she currently teaches. Professor Leonhard has taught in the Beijing program since its inception in the summer of 2008
Degrees
JD, magna cum laude, Boston University