About Jennifer Bunker
Jennifer Bunker Skerston earned her Juris Doctor from Michigan State University in 2009, completing an attention in environmental and herbal resources law. She arrived at law program after completing a Bachelor of Arts at DePaul University in 2006, where she studied American literature and records and added a minor in professional writing. The aggregate of humanities and technical legal training shaped her early interests and approach to practice.
Her first position after law school used to be at Zukowski Law Offices in 2010. That role gave her hands-on knowledge on a selection of things and introduced her to litigation and client counseling in Illinois courts. In 2016 she served as a law clerk to Justice Robert Carter on the Third District Appellate Court. The clerkship exposed her to appellate process, opinion drafting and legal research on the state appellate level.
Skerston later joined the Law Offices of Reilly & Skerston. She practices there as a lawyer, bringing the realistic trial experience from her early career together with the appellate perspective she gained at the bench. Her trajectory thru a small firm, a clerkship and personal practice has given her familiarity with both trial-degree and appellate work.
Her involvement in the legal community runs parallel to her practice. She has served as secretary of the LaSalle County Bar Association since 2018. She additionally holds an editorial role with the Illinois State Bar Association starting in 2012 and persevering with to the gift. Those positions keep her engaged with nearby and statewide bar things to do and with the career’s assets for practitioners.
Colleagues describe her work fashion as methodical and plainspoken. She approaches legal writing with an eye fixed towards readability, a trait traceable to her undergraduate minor in professional writing. The appellate clerkship sharpened that talent, particularly in making ready legal analyses and drafting memoranda that respond to better court standards.
Skerston’s educational background in environmental and herbal resources regulation informs the kinds of questions she addresses in her practice and in client counseling. She combines that grounding with knowledge from private practice and appellate work. She presently practices at the Law Offices of Reilly & Skerston, LLC, where her work consists of environmental and herbal assets law.
