Expungement Attorney Tamara Holder CHICAGO (Jan. 15, 2007) -- If Tamara Holder didn't exist, a screenwriter might be thinking her up right this minute. Young, blond, beautiful, whip-smart attorney -- make her a just little bit wild back in high school -- stakes out her legal territory where no one else wants to go: helping convicted felons clear their records, getting pardons or "disappearing" their convictions with expungements, while also practicing criminal defense for clients from every walk of life. Here, truth trumps fiction and Tamara Holder is living her own reality show. Just two years out of John Marshall Law School, she's the lawyer to see when you need to clear your name -- to her knowledge, the only attorney in Chicago, and perhaps all of Illinois, focusing on expungement of arrest or criminal records and seeking of pardons. She is also, as above, blonde, beautiful, better than bright, and all of 27 years old. ("I graduated high school, college, and law school early," she explains.) Her first love is criminal defense, but once she realized the disastrous impact a criminal record can have on an individual's life, she decided to focus on people needing expungements or pardons. And since a chance meeting with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., she has devoted Monday evenings to helping all who attend an ad hoc session on expungement at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's headquarters, 930 W. 50th St. in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Yet these pro bono walk-ins are far from the only people in need of her services. "The need for expungement transcends color, race, and socioeconomic background," Holder says. "Just an arrest -- not a conviction, just the arrest -- produces a record. There are so many domestic situations where voices are raised, someone spends the night at the police station, and the next thing they know, they've got a record. I have a lot of clients from [affluent] DuPage County -- white upper-class people with nonviolent crimes: shoplifting, check or credit-card fraud -- possibly unintended." To learn more about expungement and pardons for any criminal matter, visit www.Xpunged.com