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Official Bio
Stephanie Pries is the Founder and Managing Member of Endowment Legal Services (ELS), a Washington, D.C. law firm providing fractional, flat-fee in-house legal counsel to endowments, institutional investors, and nonprofits.
Stephanie has spent three decades at the intersection of investment law, education, and policy, including 18 years as Director of Investment Legal & Compliance at the University of Notre Dame Investment Office, where she closed over 980 complex deals and helped grow the endowment from $5B to $22B. She also taught investment management law as an adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School.
Earlier, Stephanie served as Vice President & Senior Legal Counsel at the Managed Funds Association in Washington, D.C., representing the hedge fund industry on legal and policy matters. She began her legal career as a corporate and securities lawyer at two prominent Silicon Valley law firms.
Stephanie holds degrees from Princeton University (BA), Stanford University (MA), and Santa Clara University School of Law (JD), where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.
A dedicated advocate for education, she serves on the Board of Our Sunday Visitor and actively volunteers with Princeton University alumni initiatives.
Stephanie lives in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband, Dr. Michael Pries, a Professor of Economics at Notre Dame. They have two sons, both Princeton graduates.
