John “Jack” Pera

Regional Associate Director of Conflicts (New Business)

John “Jack” Pera is currently the Regional Associate Director of Conflicts (New Business) at Cooley LLP, a position they began in 2024. Previously, they served as Lead Conflicts Counsel at Kirkland & Ellis from 2021 to 2023 and worked as a Conflicts Attorney at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP from 2019 to 2021. From 2016 to 2019, they held the role of Assistant State’s Attorney at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Jack earned their Doctor of Law (JD) from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2016 and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013.

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