Jennifer L. Binkley is an associate clinical professor and the director of the Family Court Clinic (FCC) at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. The FCC provides legal services in divorce, paternity, child placement and custody cases, and other family law matters. Through the clinic, law students deliver limited-scope, one-on-one assistance to many cases and provide full representation in select, complex family law cases.
Attorney Binkley is the author of Wisconsin Family Law with Forms, a comprehensive Wisconsin family law textbook. In April 2025, she co-authored the Wisconsin Lawyer article "Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: Predicate Orders Demystified."
Attorney Binkley has served as chair of the Dane County Bar Association’s (DCBA) Delivery of Legal Services Committee (DLSC) since 2004. During her tenure, DLSC has developed, maintained, and coordinated numerous pro bono and pro se initiatives, including clinics and attorney training opportunities, earning several service awards. In 2024, Attorney Binkley created a training presentation for new pro bono participants in the DCBA Basic Estate Planning Clinic.
Attorney Binkley currently holds an Of Counsel position at Community Justice, Inc. (CJI). During her tenure at CJI, she frequently served as a guardian ad litem for children and vulnerable adults.
Her professional honors include being named a Leader in the Law by the Wisconsin Law Journal and recognition by the Pro Bono Society of the UW Law School for her pro bono work. In 2015, CJI was honored by the State Bar of Wisconsin as a legal innovator for its Restraining Order Program. Attorney Binkley became a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2022 and a Fellow of the Wisconsin Law Foundation in 2023.
In addition to her professional work, Attorney Binkley volunteers to assist pro se litigants through the DCBA Family Law Assistance Center, Small Claims Assistance Center, Veterans Law Center, and the Senior Wills Program. She was named the State Bar of Wisconsin Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in 2023.
Sara Ghadiri is pro bono counsel at Chapman and Cutler LLP in Chicago, where she oversees and administers the firm’s pro bono programming, services, and partnerships across all offices. She serves as a mentor and supervising lawyer on pro bono matters in various areas of public interest law and maintains a substantive pro bono caseload, much of which focuses on humanitarian immigration. In her role, Attorney Ghadiri seeks out new partnerships and strengthens existing ones, both with legal service partners and business clients, to identify strategies for growth in pro bono work and to launch new pro bono initiatives.
Attorney Ghadiri has received numerous awards for her immigration work, including the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s National Public Service Award in 2024 for her pro bono immigration work on behalf of evacuated Afghans and the National Immigrant Justice Center's Human Rights Practitioner of the Year Award in 2021 for representing detained individuals in removal proceedings. She is also a member of the 2023 State Bar of Wisconsin Pro Bono Honor Society.