Admitted
1977, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; 1981, U.S. Supreme Court; 1982, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Cir
Law School
Northwestern University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1977
Law School Graduation Year
1977
College
Northwestern University, B.A., 1974
Memberships
Chicago and American (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment Law; Law Practice Management; Litigation) Bar Associations; National Employment Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Directors, Illinois Chapter, 2000—).
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Author: Creative Uses of Requests for Admissions for Plaintiffs Employment Lawyers, The Employee Advocate, Fall 2002; Summary Judgment: The Intersection of Legal Writing and Trial Practice, April 1998 CBA Record 16; Emphasis and De-emphasis, The Compleat Legal Writer, May 1997 CBA Record 68; Requests for Admissions, The Compleat Legal Writer, April 1997 CBA Record 42; Why Plaintiff's Lawyers Love the FLSA, Council on Education in Management HR Strategies, (1996); A Few Words on Choosing Words Well, 7 Practical Litigator 71 (1996); Kinder, Gentler Confirming Letters, The Compleat Legal Writer, January 1996 CBA Record 36; Responding to Arguments, The Compleat Legal Writer, June/July 1995 CBA Record 58; Best of Both Worlds: Computerized and Manual Legal Research, The Compleat Legal Writer, May 1995 CBA Record 50; Red Flags, The Compleat Legal Writer, January 1995 CBA Record 46; High-Tech Traps, The Compleat Legal Writer, November 1994 CBA Record 52; Beating Writer's Block, The Compleat Legal Writer, October 1994 CBA Record 50; The Proper Level of Ignorance, The Compleat Legal Writer, September 1994 CBA Record 50; Analogizing Your Case to a Precedent, The Compleat Legal Writer, June 1994 CBA Record 42; Writing the Statement of Facts, The Compleat Legal Writer, May 1994 CBA Record 42. Co-Author: A View from the Other Side, Council on Education in Management Personnel Law Update (1999) (with Sarah R. Masarachia); Kiss My Grits and Other Eloquent Retorts: Incivility in Legal Writing, April 1999 CBA Record 28 (with Sarah R. Masarachia); The Top Eleven Mistakes Employers Make in Firing and/or Disciplining Employees, Council on Education in Management Discipline & Termination Law (1999) (with Sarah R. Masarachia); How to Protect a Client from Misappropriation of Computer Software - A Frontier without a Direction, Chapter 12, in Patent, Trademark and Trade Secret, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (1980), (with Ellen C. Newcomer); Judges in an Age