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Faculty and Administration Profiles

Nicole Grace Schur

Title/s:  Staff Attorney

CV Link: Schur CV

About

Nicole Schur is a Staff Attorney in the Community Services & Outreach program at Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA). In her role at CGLA, she provides full-service records relief for clients and is the lead attorney for Markham Live Call, where she represents otherwise self-represented petitioners facing objections to their petitions to seal and expunge. In addition to those duties, she also drafts petitions to seal and expunge criminal records for self-represented petitioners through CGLA’s Help Desk. Finally, she provides outreach to communities in need of records relief through Know Your Rights Presentations.

Nicole Schur is a former clerk for the Honorable Justice Mary L. Mikva of the Illinois Appellate Court and spent a year teaching English in Lübeck, Germany, as a Fulbright grantee. Writing is her passion, and her fiction can be found in the literary magazine Pigeon Pages.

Degrees

JD - Washington University School of Law (2019)
BA in International Studies, Minor in German; BA in Psychology - Miami University (2015)

Program Areas

Advocacy
Legal Writing
Public Interest

Professional & Community Affiliations

Cabrini Green Legal Aid

Courses Taught

Legal Writing