VAB Law was honored to sponsor the 2026 Diversity Scholarship Foundation, NFP’s Unity Gala and Award Ceremony. The DSF's mission is to promote the goal of advancing diversity within the legal community. To fulfill its mission, DSF seeks to financially assist underprivileged and under-represented minorities in attending law school by offering them scholarships. DSF’s reach goes outside of the Chicago area helping aspiring students in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa. We are especially proud of VAB Partner, Erica Byrd's work as Co-Chair of the Scholarship Committee! VAB Shareholder, Aurora Austriaco also helps to support the cause by serving on the Board of DFS. We were excited to bring as our guests Sarah Vehlow of Wintrust Bank Chicago and Suhana Patel, an aspiring law student. In addition to Erica and Aurora and our wonderful guests, VAB team members Susan Valentine, Reena Sikdar, Jennifer Novoselsky, Lance Willoughby-Hudson, Jack Casey and LaWanda May, MSHR were there to support this worthy cause and celebrate the recipients. Congratulations to all of the 2026 recipients of the DFS scholarships!
Congratulations to Team Members Named as 2025 Leading Lawyers!
Way to go team! VABLaw's Susan Valentine, Lydia Bueschel, Erica Byrd, Sandy Morris, Reena Sikdar and Jennifer Novoselsky were all selected this year Leading Lawyers for the year 2025 by leadinglawyers.com. Leading Lawyers are recommended by their peers to be among the TOP LAWYERS in a given practice area. Less than 5% of all lawyers licensed in each state have received this distinction. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/eKnfWErM
VAB Celebrates Our 2026 Super Lawyers
A VABulous round of applause to Susan Valentine, Aurora Austriaco, Lydia Bueschel, Sandy Morris, Erica Byrd and Jennifer Novoselsky for being included on the "Illinois Super Lawyers" list and to Reena Sikdar, Deborah Imafidon and Preslav Mantchev for their inclusion on the "Illinois Rising Stars" list!
7 VAB Attorneys Included on the 2025 Illinois Super Lawyers/Rising Stars Lists
A #VABulous round of applause to Susan Valentine, Aurora Austriaco, Lydia Bueschel, Sandy Morris and Erica Byrd for being included on the "Illinois Super Lawyers" list and to Reena Sikdar and Deborah Imafidon for their inclusion on the 2025 "Illinois Rising Stars" list!
Reena Sikdar Promoted to Partner
VAB is excited to announce that Reena Sikdar has been promoted to Partner as of January 1, 2025. We can't think of a better way to kick off the new year. Cheers to Reena!
VAB Sponsors Reception and Reena Sikdar Panelist at NAMWOLF 2024 Annual Meeting
We are so excited to continue our support of National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) and its events as an In-House Cocktail Reception Sponsor for the 2024 Annual Meeting. Our own Reena Sikdar was on an Ethics CLE panel discussing "When the Government Gets Involved" with esteemed co-panelists John Amberg, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer at Northern Trust, Nekia Hackworth Jones, Regional Director for the Atlanta Regional Office for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Aaron Moore, Regional Counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Alison Donahue Kehner Partner at DTO Law.
2024 VAB Super Lawyers
2024 is already looking #VABulous! Congratulations to Susan Valentine, Aurora Austriaco, Lydia Bueschel, and Sandy Morris who have been included on the 2024 "Illinois Super Lawyers" list. We are also very excited to report that Reena Sikdar and Deborah Seriki have been included on the 2024 "Illinois Rising Stars" list.
VAB Welcomes Reena Sikdar
VAB welcomes Reena Sikdar as Special Counsel! Reena returns to private practice after serving two years in state and local government during the onset and height of the pandemic,
