Na yon Oh

Na yon Oh is an Associate Attorney at Airdo Werwas, LLC, where her practice focuses primarily on trusts and estates and the legal needs of nonprofit and religious organizations. She advises clients on trust and estate matters, institutional governance, and related planning and transactional issues. She also represents the firm’s private-sector, nonprofit, and religious clients in complex civil litigation, including institutional negligence, tort defense, and related disputes.

Na yon draws on her litigation background to bring a strategic, risk-aware perspective to her transactional and advisory work. Prior to joining the firm, she served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County, where she managed a diverse, high-volume docket and developed substantial experience in courtroom advocacy, discovery, motion practice, and trial. She also handled appellate matters for the office, including researching and drafting briefs filed in the Illinois Appellate Court.

Having evaluated matters from their inception through appeal, Na yon approaches planning, drafting, and governance with an eye toward how decisions, documents, and institutional structures may later be scrutinized. This perspective enables her to identify ambiguities and potential disputes early and to develop practical, durable solutions that protect her clients’ legal, operational, and reputational interests.

Na yon also brings a distinctive international perspective to her practice. She earned her Bachelor of Laws from Dankook University College of Law in South Korea before receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa College of Law. During her legal training, she gained experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international arbitration, and antitrust matters while interning with a global law firm. At Iowa, she served as Articles Editor of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, the University of Iowa College of Law’s international law review, and published her note on transnational online arbitration.

Na yon is admitted to practice in Illinois. She is bilingual in English and Korean and is fluent in Japanese.

Education:

• University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2023
• Dankook University College of Law, LL.B., 2019

Admitted to Practice:

• State of Illinois, 2024