Celeste Bott
Legal journalist at Law360
- Role
- Reporter, Chicago Illinois Courts at Law360
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Celeste Bott
I\'m a driven news reporter with a proven track record of excellent work in the fields of…
Experience
Reporter, Chicago Illinois Courts
Feb 2019 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Writing at least two stories per day that reach thousands of readers while covering and tracking civil lawsuits and criminal cases in the state and federal courts in Illinois.• Meeting numerous daily deadlines while also working on long-term projects and features, maintaining excellent time management skills to juggle live court coverage with writing, legal research, tracking dockets, and on-the-ground reporting.• Collaborating with other reporters and teams across numerous other news wires to ensure the best coverage possible.• Extensive experience reporting on cases in the following areas of law: cybersecurity and privacy, white collar, antitrust, personal injury, medical malpractice, real estate, legal ethics and malpractice, securities, health care, employment, intellectual property, contracts and more. • Seeing cases through from their filing to trial, reporting on all stages of the case including discovery disputes, dismissal and summary judgment briefing and more.• Experience covering dozens of jury and bench trials in state and federal courts.• Working quickly and efficiently to cover breaking legal news in the state of Illinois and scoop competitors.• Consistently relied upon at Law360 for key appellate coverage at the Seventh Circuit, the Illinois Appellate Courts and the Illinois Supreme Court.• Building connections and relationships with attorneys, major law firms, law school deans and professors, court clerks and staff and other key stakeholders in the local legal industry to strengthen storytelling.• Evaluating and profiling Illinois law firms for awards and features such as our annual Powerhouse series.• Acting as an assigned mentor to young reporters new to Law360 and legal reporting.• In charge of putting together and editing a highly read weekly newsletter on litigation stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.• Tracking and covering Illinois legislation and political issues in Springfield that affect the practice of law in the state.
Education
University of Illinois Springfield
Master’s Degree, Public Affairs Reporting
2015 — 2016
Michigan State University
Bachelor's degree, Journalism
2010 — 2015
Skills
- Feature Articles
- Proofreading
- Ap Stylebook
- Copy Editing
- Social Media
- Creative Writing
- Web Content
- Technical Writing
- Html
- Freelance Writing
- Copywriting
- Journalism
- Blogging
- Ap Style
- New Media
- Magazines
- Books
- Storytelling
- Photography
- Editing
- Photoshop
- Editorial
- News Writing
- Video Editing
- Incopy
- Online Journalism
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