Elena LeVan is a Stakeholder at Eimer Stahl and focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation. Before joining the firm, Elena served as a law clerk to the Honorable Carl E. Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Elizabeth Erny Foote of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. During her clerkships, she worked on a broad range of civil and criminal matters, researching complex legal issues and drafting judicial opinions and memoranda.
Elena earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Senior Executive Editor of the Washington University Law Review. She also received the National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Law Graduate Award, Dean’s Service Award, Academic Achievement Award, and Golden Quill Award for the highest-ranked brief in the Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Competition. While in law school, Elena worked at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and National Women’s Law Center, where she focused on state and federal litigation concerning novel constitutional and statutory interpretation issues, and responses to administrative actions. She also worked for a labor and employment law firm and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s enforcement unit, with a focus on unfair labor practice charges and discrimination matters. Elena was a Student Attorney for the Washington University Immigration Law Clinic, where she first-chaired a withholding of removal and asylum trial.
Her published Note, Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: Potential Protections for Inmates Subject to Sexual Victimization in the Post-Dobbs World, was awarded the Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award at the 2024 Burton Awards, presented at the Library of Congress, and a prize in the 2024 New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Justice.
Elena graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A., as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, and the recipient of the Adele H. Stamp Memorial Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service. She serves on the Board of Bridging the Gap Scholarship, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing representation of underrepresented attorneys in the most competitive legal arenas.
Elena is barred in the District of Columbia. To the extent she works on any Illinois legal matters, she does so under the supervision of the principals of Eimer Stahl’s Chicago office.