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Bianca E. Ciarroni
- E bciarroni@taftlaw.com
- T (312) 836-4163
- F (312) 668-8902
Summary
Bianca is a member of Taft’s Chicago Litigation practice group and focuses on commercial litigation, including shareholder and partnership disputes, business torts, breach of contract cases, Section 1983 civil rights litigation and trust litigation. She also represents creditors in enforcing their judgments against debtors concealing their assets and third-party respondents pulled into post-judgment matters.
Prior to joining Taft, she was an associate at a mid-sized law firm in Chicago and represented creditors’ committees in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and creditors and Trustees in Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases as well as post-judgment litigation on behalf of the judgment creditors. Bianca also advocated pro bono on behalf of two inmates based on infringements of their constitutional rights while in prison.
Bianca is active in the Chicago Bar Association as a director for the Young Lawyers Section. She previously served as a Special Project Coordinator. Bianca was a co-chair on the Turnaround Management Association’s (TMA) Chicago/Midwest Chapter, Network of Women (NOW) Committee in 2020 and 2021. In addition, she served as an advisory board member for the Women’s Bar Foundation of Illinois.
While in law school, Bianca was Chief Justice of the Moot Court Honors Program and a published member of the UIC John Marshall Law Review. In her first year of law school, she was recognized as Best Oralist and received second place in both the intra-school moot court and mock trial competitions. Additionally, she was awarded Winner and Best Oralist of the intra-school moot court competition in her second year of law school. She continued to win awards while competing with other law schools through the Moot Court Honors Program.
Awards
Honoree, Best Lawyers® “Ones to Watch” (2023 – 2024)
Honoree, Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Business Litigation (2023 – 2024)
Education
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law (2018)
cum laude (Top 4.8%), Order of John Marshall
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015)
BA, Political Science and Spanish, cum laude
Admissions
- State - Illinois
- Federal - Northern District of Illinois
- Federal - U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois
News
Eighteen Taft Attorneys Selected for Illinois Rising Stars 2024 News
One Hundred Seventeen Taft Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers® "Ones to Watch" 2024 News
Ciarroni Elected Director for the Chicago Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section News
Sixteen Taft Attorneys Recognized in Illinois Rising Stars 2023
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section
Director
Special Project Coordinator