Elizabeth Khalil

Elizabeth Anne Khalil is a lawyer and writer whose interests include banking and bankruptcy law (especially Chapter 11), aerobics, community service, opera, watching competitive and professional cheerleading, and promoting physical fitness and financial literacy. She studied ballet for many years and hopes to choreograph new versions of The Nutcracker and Romeo & Juliet one day.

Her adventures have taken her, among other places, to the Associated Press, the Office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), CNN Chicago, The Hill Newspaper, and the storied offices of Georgetown's student newspaper, The Hoya. She has lived in D.C., Boston, Paris (just long enough to start sentences with, "When I was living in Paris..."), Chicago, Ann Arbor, and the 313. She is a graduate of Detroit Country Day School, Georgetown University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Her favorite plays are Jabberwock, based on the life of James Thurber, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Her favorite books are too numerous to mention. So are her favorite kinds of music, but her all-time favorite musical groups are the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, R.E.M., Pizzicato 5, the Gipsy Kings, They Might Be Giants and the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club.

She has seen the Hotel Yorba in person many times, but has never stayed there.

She is admitted to the bar in New York and Massachusetts.

— Liz Khalil (thegreatlizby@yahoo.com)