01.26.22 CC Michael Potere Resume Asst Clerk of Committees — File 23-0041

MICHAEL BERNARD POTERE EDUCATION Northwestern University School of Law Chicago, Illinois JURIS DOCTOR cum laude 2012 • GPA: 3.74 • Northwestern University Law Review, Coordinating Articles Editor • Julius A. Polikoff Scholarship Recipient • Harold Washington Leadership Award (peer-nominated and -elected), 2011 • Research Assistant to Professor Lee Epstein, Judicial Elections Data Initiative, Summer 2010 • Teaching Assistant – Communication and Legal Reasoning (legal writing), 2010 – 2011 • Co-Chair – Student Admissions Committee, 2010 – 2011 The London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom MASTER OF SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION with distinction 2009 • Dissertation (with distinction, mark: 80/A+) – statistical analysis finding a positive correlation between the presence of field offices for presidential candidates and vote share in 2004 and 2008 University of Rochester Rochester, New York BACHELOR OF ARTS, POLITICAL SCIENCE magna cum laude 2007 • GPA: 3.84, GPA in major: 3.96, class rank: top 7% • Phi Beta Kappa • Helen S. Jones Prize for Achievement in the Social Sciences, 2007 • Undergraduate Writing Colloquium, Best Social Science Research Paper (out of 9 majors), 2007 • Writing Fellows – (peer writing tutor; Teaching Assistant for writing tutor training course) AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright Scholar Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia ENGLISH TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP 2007 – 2008 • Taught eleven classes per week, each with 20 to 30 students ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old. PUBLICATIONS Who Will Watch the Watchmen?: Citizens Recording Police Conduct, Note, 106 NW. U. L. REV. 273 (2012) • Arguing that the First Amendment’s protection against prior restraint renders any attempts by police to prevent citizens from recording and disseminating footage of their conduct unconstitutional. • More than twenty-two academic citations, including in the California Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the American Law Reports treatise, and the American Jurisprudence treatise. Killing the Patient to Cure the Disease: Medicare’s Jurisdictional Bar Does Not Apply to Bankruptcy Courts, with Samuel R. Maizel, 32 EMORY BANKR. DEV. J. 19 (2015) • Arguing that plain language in the Medicare Act and the Bankruptcy Code permits federal bankruptcy courts to rule on Medicare’s administrative decisions to the extent those decisions inhibit restructuring. • Cited approvingly by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the published decision In re Bayou Shores SNF, LLC, 828 F.3d 1297, 1313, 1349 n.9 (11th Cir. 2016). JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Chicago, Illinois HON. VIRGINIA M. KENDALL September 2013 – February 2014

MICHAEL BERNARD POTERE EXPERIENCE1 Retail Sales and Management Natick, Massachusetts ASSISTANT MANAGER; KEYHOLDER; SALES September 2018 – present • Apple Store (Sales); UNTUCKit (assistant manager); Roots and Tommy Bahama (keyholder). Dentons US LLP Los Angeles, California LITIGATION ASSOCIATE March 2015 – June 2017 • On a pro bono basis, successfully: represented a U.S. Army Veteran in two family law matters; and negotiated settlements in a home foreclosure matter and an entertainment law matter. Illinois Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division Chicago, Illinois ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL May – July 2014 • Represented the State of Illinois in federal habeas corpus proceedings, Illinois habeas corpus proceedings, and sexually violent persons proceedings. Kirkland & Ellis LLP Chicago, Illinois LITIGATION ASSOCIATE October 2012 – September 2013 • On a pro bono basis, successfully: argued and won an appeal before the Social Security Administration, which resulted in receiving the “Volunteer of the Year” award in that category from a Chicago-based legal assistance organization (called “LAP”); and negotiated a favorable settlement for a client in an employment discrimination matter. Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, Northwestern Bluhm Legal Clinic Chicago, Illinois PILI FELLOW (LEGAL INTERN) Summer 2012 • Drafted three motions for criminal postconviction relief filed in Illinois appellate courts. • Drafted an appellate brief filed in Wisconsin on behalf of Brendan Dassey (of Making A Murderer). Kirkland & Ellis LLP Chicago, Illinois SUMMER ASSOCIATE Summer 2011 • On a pro bono basis, successfully represented a client in a U-Visa application. Hon. Ruben Castillo, U.S. Dist. Court, Northern District of Illinois Chicago, Illinois EXTERN Spring 2011 Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration Washington, District of Columbia LAW CLERK, CHIEF COUNSEL’S OFFICE Summer 2010 Monroe County District Attorney Rochester, New York INTERN Fall 2006 United States Senator John Kerry Washington, District of Columbia INTERN Summer 2006 • Conducted research for Senator Kerry’s Legislative Director and co-wrote parts of several speeches. INTERESTS The Boston Red Sox, gourmet cheeseburgers, improvisational comedy (The Groundlings in Los Angeles) 1 Unemployed: March – April 2014; August 2014 – February 2015; June 2017 – January 2018; and August 2018.