Ethan Fintzen

Ethan Fintzen focuses his practice on commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense. He has experience in all phases of litigation, including conducting discovery, motion practice, and trial preparation. In 2025, Ethan served on a trial team that represented a defendant in a multi-week trial in the Northern District of Illinois involving allegations of fraud relating to the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program and millions in bank loans. In addition, he maintains a robust pro bono practice that emphasizes representing victims of human trafficking and domestic violence.

While in law school, Ethan represented clients seeking humanitarian asylum in the law school's Bluhm Legal Clinic. He also worked as a teaching assistant for Professor Meredith Martin Rountree in her Constitutional Criminal Procedure and Criminal Process courses and served as an intern for the Honorable Virginia M. Kendall in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.