SJ Chapman

Bielski Chapman, Ltd.

SJ Chapman (she/her) practices in the areas of estate planning, probate, real estate, and corporate law in New York and Illinois.  She lives in Brooklyn and manages the Chicago corporate headquarters team remotely. 

SJ grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, attended UNC-Chapel Hill for undergrad, and graduated from Northwestern Law School with a distinction in public service.  

SJ is active in public service. She traveled to Tanzania through Lawyers without Borders to train magistrates, prosecutors and immigration officers on human trafficking law and procedure.  She volunteers with Wills for Heroes to draft wills and powers of attorneys for first responders.  She volunteers with the New American Initiative to assist immigrants in obtaining citizenship.  She is passionate about reproductive rights and assisted reproductive technologies. 

Prior to joining Bielski Law Office, SJ externed for Judge Ann Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Judge Timothy A. Barnes in the United States bankruptcy court, Northern District of Illinois.  In law school she worked under Professor Dorothy Roberts assisting with her book, “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century.”  

When SJ is not practicing law, she is doing anything she can to be outside: hiking, rock climbing, biking, snowboarding, trail running, ultramarathons, camping, or traveling the country in a campervan.   

SJ is proud to call herself a member of the queer female business owner community. 

SJ played the alto sax in junior high and high school, but she is long since “retired” from music.  Instead of participating in the arts, she loves supporting the arts, especially by serving on the board of ~Nois.