Undergraduate Education

University of Missouri
Columbia; Bachelor of Accounting, 1985
summa cum laude and General Honors

Law School Education

Washington University School of Law
St. Louis, Missouri, Juris Doctor, 1992
Order of the Coif, Managing Editor of
the Washington University Law Quarterly

Dena Epstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in Chesterfield, Missouri. Dena attended the University of Missouri as an undergraduate where she graduated in the top one percent of her class. She later attended the prestigious Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri and was named to the Order of the Coif for being one of the top three students in her graduating class. She also served as the managing editor of the Washington University Quarterly Law Review. After graduation, Dena worked at the prestigious law firm of Winston and Strawn in Chicago, Illinois for six years where she concentrated in securities law. Dena now balances working as a mother and working at The Epstein Law Firm as its Managing Attorney.