Raj Saker

ASSOCIATE

PRACTICE AREAS

Commercial Litigation

Personal and Catastrophic Injury

EDUCATION

Northwestern University School of Law, L.L.M., 2006

University of Connecticut, J.D., 2004

National Institutes of Health, Research Fellowship Award, 2001

University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S., 2000

BAR ADMISSIONS

Arizona, 2009

Minnesota, 2007 (Inactive)

Illinois, 2004 (Inactive)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

State Bar of Arizona

Minnesota State Bar Association (Inactive)

Illinois State Bar Association (Inactive)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

"The Posse Comitatus Act: Deterring Use of Military Torture Techniques Against Civilians," Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (Spring 2006 Volume)

"Specific Missense Mutations in NEMO Result in Hyper-IgM Syndrome with Ectodermal Dysplasia," Nature Immunology, Vol. 2, 223 (March 2001)

"Phosphodiesterase Effects on Heart Attacks," Journal of the Association for Academic Minority Physicians, Vol.8, 16 (1997)

CLERKSHIPS

Judicial Clerkship for the Honorable Alexander P. White, Circuit Court of Cook County, 2004-2005

AWAY FROM THE OFFICE

Raj was born in Bangalore, India, and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, where he became a Badger and a devoted Packers fan. Raj and his wife, Raina, moved to Arizona from Minnesota and have learned to cope with the desert heat with plenty of gelato. In Minnesota, Raj was an Assistant Public Defender on the major felony trial calendar. Prior to that, Raj lived in Chicago, where he earned his L.L.M. from Northwestern University Law School and became an associate in the International Corporate Division of KPMG. In college, Raj excelled in math and science and received a fellowship to conduct research on ectodermal dysplasia patients at the National Institutes of Health. He entered law school after interning for then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton. A lover of books, Raj's favorite authors include John Kennedy Toole, Michael Chabon and Sebastian Faulks. When time permits, Raj lifts weights and tries to capture the beauty of the Arizona landscape by painting in oil or sculpting in clay.