KATZ, FRIEDMAN, EAGLE, EISENSTEIN, JOHNSON & BARECK, P.C.

Employment law, including retaliation, FMLA and overtime claims, and false claim, qui tam actions.

HEDBERG, TOBIN, FLAHERTY & WHALEN, P.C.

General civil litigation and trial practice, concentrated in employment discrimination/wrongful discharge matters.

June 1995 - May 1996

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Adjunct Professor. Taught Interviewing and Counseling Course and supervised Advice Desk at Richard J. Daley Civic Center.

July 1981 - June 1995

LAW OFFICES, CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Clinical Instructor. Supervised law students who assisted in representing employment law clients in court and at trial: provided individualized instruction in interviewing, drafting of pleadings, discovery requests and responses, motions, trial practice, counseling and negotiations, and legal practice management. Taught Interviewing and Counseling Course and supervised Advice Desk at Richard J. Daley Civic Center.

Bar Admissions

Supreme Court of Illinois; United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (General and Trial Bar); United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Supreme Court of the United States.

Education

September 1977 - June 1980

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, Chicago, Illinois J.D., Honors (1980).

Law Review: Notes and Comments Editor. Legal Services Center (now Law Offices): Law Intern, with Ill. Sup. Ct. Rule 711 Student Practice License. Ethics Council. Judicial Extern for Honorable Marvin E. Aspen, United States District Court.

August 1973 - August 1977

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, Illinois, B.A., Political Science (1977).

October 1976 - June 1977

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Liberal Arts studies.

Related Activities

August 2008 - Present Member, Illinois State Bar Association Labor and Employment Section Council.

January 1993 - May 1994 Initiated, planned and implemented Illinois Human Rights Commission decision library, one of the first searchable legal databases on the Internet, through the Chicago-Kent Gopher and World Wide Web site.

1992 - 1993 Chair of the Civil Rights Committee, Chicago Bar Association.

1991 - 1992 Spokesperson for civil rights attorneys on committee which considered procedural reform of Human Rights Act. Committee included leadership of the Illinois Department of Human Rights, Illinois Human Rights Commission, and management groups.

1988 - 1989 Chicago-Kent representative for first Illinois Legal Needs Study.

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