Ian joined Burns Charest's Washington DC office in 2024 from Elias Law Group LLP, where he litigated high-profile voting rights and election cases in state and federal courts.

Ian is a graduate of Hamilton College and The University of Chicago Law School, where he was a David M. Rubenstein Scholar and a Comments Editor for The University of Chicago Law Review. During law school, he interned with the U.N. Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions and the Illinois Attorney General's Workplace Rights Bureau, and participated in the Law School's Civil Rights Practicum. After graduating with high honors in 2021, he clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.