Freeborn & Peters LLP has announced that Hannah D. Vanderlaan has joined the firm’s Chicago office as an associate in the Litigation and Environment and Energy Law practice groups.

Vanderlaan focuses her practice primarily on environmental-based litigation and regulatory counseling.

Most recently, Vanderlaan worked as a law clerk at Freeborn. Prior to that, she served as a legal extern at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and with the Environmental Division of the Office of Illinois Attorney General, where she worked on a variety of federal and state environmental enforcement actions.

Vanderlaan received her J.D. (cum laude) from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Chicago-Kent Environmental and Energy Law Journal and was actively involved in the Chicago Environmental Law Clinic. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin.