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Monica Llorente

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Senior Lecturer

About

Areas of Focus

  • Contracts
  • Artificial intelligence and other technologies
  • Business entities
  • Education law and policy
  • Legal education

Work/Research

  • Artificial intelligence and other technologies in contract drafting and law
  • How to draft and negotiate better contracts, working with different groups from emerging artists to large corporations
  • How early-career attorneys with disabilities can best succeed in their practice
  • School discipline laws and policies for K-12 students
  • Changes in legal education and teaching

Career

Llorente is an active leader, trainer and writer in contract drafting and the development of different types of business entities with the goal of making agreements and commercial laws and practices more accessible to everyone.

She is the author of "Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do," which is the main book used across the country to teach contract drafting at law schools and in other settings (corporations, law firms, etc...).

Llorente has broad experience in both the private and public sectors. Through the years, she has co-founded and developed many types of entities and has served in leadership positions within various organizations including the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois. Furthermore, she has been appointed by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to the following in the Northern District of Illinois, which evaluate and recommend candidates for these positions: the Judicial Screening Committee, the U.S. Attorney Screening Committee and the U.S. Marshal Screening Committee.