Weikal, Sheryl: - Sheryl Weikal is an attorney, author, and activist in Illinois. Her pay-whatever-you-can litigation practice focuses on landlord-tenant law, criminal defense, eviction defense, and foreclosure defense. Sheryl brought the 2022 lawsuit that made it unlawful for Illinois attorneys and judges to discriminate on the basis of gender identity, and was the first openly trans attorney to orally argue at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She has appeared on ESPN Radio, The Young Turks, Vox, Fangraphs, and elsewhere.