Paula Jacobi

Paula, a recently retired attorney, was a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP law firm.  After five years of general litigation, she concentrated on insolvency law, practicing in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.  Over the years, Paula reorganized over 50 privately held companies and represented financial institutions and real estate entities in over 50 Chapter 11 cases. In addition to other business li ga on, much of the balance of her work was li ga ng financial fraud matters.  Paula graduated from the University of Michigan, certified in elementary education. 

After a year in graduate school at Smith College for Psychiatric Social Work and a year working, she went to law school.  Paula and her husband Todd are long-time residents of Evanston. Paula and Todd, in concert with Northwestern University tennis coaches, created a tennis program [Sam Says: Let’s Play Tennis] to honor their son who died in 2020.  Their son had been a tennis coach at Northwestern University Community Tennis program for six years and was working there when he passed away.  Craig Lynch has worked closely with Paula to give Y.O.U. kids an opportunity to be in the program, and currently 22 Y.O.U kids are registered to participate in the summer session.