EPISODE · Aug 5, 2025 · 47 MIN
#81: Let's Get Personal with Tom Peabody, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
from Personal Jurisdiction · host Tom Peabody, Hallie Ritzu, Allison Freedman
Tom Peabody is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Prior to becoming an AUSA, Tom worked at Katten in Chicago, and clerked for the Honorable Amy St. Eve first at the district court level in the Northern District of Illinois and later on the Seventh Circuit. Tom is a graduate of Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, and DePaul University in Chicago. *All views expressed in this episode are those of Tom Peabody, not of the U.S. Attorney's Office or the Department of Justice. Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack! Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here. Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less
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In Episode 81, we chat with Tom Peabody, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. In this episode, Tom shares his journey from law school to becoming a federal prosecutor, emphasizing the importance of "finding your people" and building a supportive network of both colleagues and friends. He also discusses highlights from his unique clerkship experience--he clerked for the same judge at both the district and circuit court levels!--as well as how he navigated being a young associate at a large law firm in Chicago.
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