Top Civil Rights Lawyers in chicago | 74 available

Firm: Law Office of Adele D Nicholas

5707 W Goodman St. , Chicago , Illinois 60630

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Firm: Wexler Toriseva Wallace LLP

One North Lasalle Street Suite 2000 , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, Antitrust & Trade Law

312 N May St Ste 100 , Chicago , Illinois 60607

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Firm: Miller Shakman and Beem LLP

3600   180 North La Salle Street , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Business Formation,Civil Rights,Corporate ,Health Care & Hospitalization,Legal Malpractice

Firm: Hinshaw and Culbertson LLP

222 North La Salle Street   300   , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Civil Rights,Medical Malpractice,Municipal ,Professional Malpractice,Real Estate

The Transportation Building   203 North La Salle S , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Civil ,Civil Rights,Contracts,Corporate ,Criminal Defense ,Estate ,Estate Planning,Guardianship and Conservatorship,Leases and Leasing,Probate ,Trusts,Wills

Firm: Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin and Tominberg, Ltd.

515 North State Street   2800  60 , Chicago , Illinois 60610

Practice Areas: Civil Rights,Corporate ,Labor

Firm: Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.

325 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 350 , Chicago , Illinois 60654

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Deanna Pihos, a partner at Miner, Barnhill & Galland who specializes in litigation, joined the firm in 2008 after two judicial clerkships, one in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and one in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She divides her time between the Chicago office and Los Angeles, California, and represents clients nationwide.. Deanna pursued a career in law, and specifically joined MBG in order to use her skills as an attorney to promote social justice. This remains her passion today and her practice largely focuses on representing individuals and groups whose rights have been violated, protecting consumers from fraud, and working to eliminate discrimination in the workplace.. Deanna has extensive experience in complex litigation and her areas of focus include: representing state governments in complex litigation; representing plaintiffs in civil rights, environmental, consumer protection, qui tam, and class action matters; and representing employees in discrimination, wage and hour, and other employment matters. She also advises employers and non-profits on legal issues pertaining to their employees. Deanna litigates in both state and federal court and her dedication to her clients and providing them the highest quality representation has translated to millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts.

Firm: Leahy Eisenberg & Fraenkel, Ltd

33 W. Monroe , Chicago , Illinois 60603

Practice Areas: Civil Rights, Insurance , Medical Malpractice, Professional Malpractice, Litigation

1911 W Farwell Ave , Chicago , Illinois 60626

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Firm: Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC

20 S. Clark Street, Suite 1500 , Chicago , Illinois 60603

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy, Business & Commercial, Business Organizations, Civil Rights, Communications & Media , Consumer Protection, Insurance , Real Estate , Securities , Toxic Substances, Debt Collection

Daniel A. Edelman is a member  of the firm of Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC.  He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.  From 1976 to 1981 he was an associate at the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis.   In 1981 he became an associate at Reuben & Proctor and was made a partner there in 1982.  From the end of 1985 he has been in private practice in downtown Chicago.  Virtually all of his 14-attorney firm’s practice involves litigation on behalf of consumers, including individual and class actions under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and Truth in Lending Act, and debt collection defense.  Mr. Edelman argued for the consumer in Heintz v. Jenkins, 514 U.S. 291 (1995), establishing  FDCPA coverage of attorneys.. Mr. Edelman is the author or coauthor of numerous publications on class actions and consumer protection law, including Predatory Mortgage Lending (Ill. Inst. for Cont. Legal. Educ. 2008), author of Chapter 6, “Predatory Lending and Potential Class Actions,” in Real Estate Litigation (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal Educ. 2008), Chapter 4-1, “Truth in Lending Act,” in Illinois Causes of Action (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal Educ. 2008), Predatory Lending and Potential Class Actions, ch. 6 of Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Practice (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal );  Predatory Lending and Potential Class Actions, ch. 5 of Real Estate Litigation (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal ); Illinois Consumer Law, in Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and Related Areas Update (Chicago Bar Ass’n 2002); Predatory Lending Litigation in Illinois (2001); Consumer Class Action Manual (2d-5th editions), National Consumer Law Center 1990-2002; Payday Loans:  Big Interest Rates and Little Regulation, 11 L.Rptr. 14 (1999); Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Update --  1999, Chicago Bar Ass’n 1999; An Overview of The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, in Financial Services Litigation, Practicing Law Institute (1999); Consumer Fraud and Insurance Claims, in Bad Faith and Extracontractual Damage Claims in Insurance Litigation, Chicago Bar Ass'n 1992; Chapter 8, "Fair Debt Collection Practices Act," Ohio Consumer Law (1995 ed.); Fair Debt Collection:  The Need for Private Enforcement, 7 L.Rptr. 89 (1995); The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:  Recent Developments, 8 L. Rptr. 303 (1996); Residential Mortgage Litigation, in Financial Services Litigation, Practicing Law Institute (1996); Automobile Leasing:  Problems and Solutions, 7 L.Rptr. 14 (1994); Current Trends in Residential Mortgage Litigation, 12 Rev. of Banking & Financial Services 71 (1996); Applicability of Illinois Consumer Fraud Act in Favor of Out-of-State Consumers, 8 L.Rptr. 27 (1996); Illinois Consumer Law (Chicago Bar Ass'n 1996).  He has testified before the Federal Trade Commission and legislative committees on consumer related issues.. Mr. Edelman is licensed in Illinois state court and in all federal courts in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan, as well as others.

Firm: Loevy & Loevy

312 N May St Ste 100 , Chicago , Illinois 60607

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Ms. Tsai is devoted to defending individuals’ constitutional rights and handles civil rights cases involving wrongful convictions, police brutality, and illegal searches. She also litigates class actions on behalf of people whose rights were violated while detained at various police stations and county jails throughout the country. Ms. Tsai is experienced in all phases of litigation, and has won many motion hearings and successfully obtained favorable verdicts and settlements on behalf of her clients.. Ms. Tsai graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2007 with dual graduate degrees in law (J.D.) and business administration (M.B.A.). During law school, she served as Executive Editor of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and represented the school in the regional and national Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition. She also served as an officer of the school’s chapter of Phi Delta Phi and the Asian Pacific American Law School Association, and was an active member of the Public Interest Law Society. Prior to law school, Ms. Tsai worked in the advertising industry in Chicago.

Firm: Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.

70 West Madison Suite 4000 , Chicago , Illinois 60602

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Firm: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

65 E Wacker Pl Ste 2000 , Chicago , Illinois 60601

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

Firm: FirmEquity

444 North Wabash , Chicago , Illinois 60611

Practice Areas: Civil Rights

I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, with a B.A. in Sociology, (with high honors in the major); Behavioral Science and Law, (with honors in the major); and a Certificate in Integrated Liberal Studies. After graduating from college, I stayed in Madison, where I served as a public school teacher for students with profound disabilities. After teaching for three years, I decided to pursue law school to address many of the social issues I observed as an educator. In 2004 was awarded a law degree from Case Western Reserve School of Law, with a Certificate in Civil Litigation.. During law school, I was a student mentor in Big Buddies, where I mentored and tutored a middle school student from East Cleveland and was also an instructor for the Street Law Program. I served as a clinical intern with the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center. During the summers of 2002 and 2003, I was a legal extern for the U.S. Department of Education in the Office for Civil Rights. In my final year of law school, I was a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge John M. Manos in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. I was also president of the Jewish Law Students Association and a Trustee on the Board of Trustees for the Hillel Foundation of Case Western Reserve University.. After becoming licensed, I began my legal career as an Assistant Public Guardian for Cook County, where I represented abused and neglected minors in Circuit Court. In 2007, I transitioned into the private sector and worked for a boutique employment law litigation firm in Chicago. I represented clients in state and federal court, the EEOC, the Illinois Court of Claims, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Human Rights Commission, and the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. I also worked on a number of large commercial litigation cases. In 2012, Billy and I formed FirmEquity.. I am a pro bono attorney for Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,The Pro Bono Center for Disability and Elder Law, and serve on the board of Keshet, an organization devoted to providing recreational and educational opportunities for children with developmental disabilities.

300 South Wacker Drive 3400 , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Civil Rights,Education ,Labor

Firm: Pedersen and Weinstein LLP

West Washington Street , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Arbitration & Mediation,Civil Rights,Contracts,Corporate ,Discrimination,Sexual Harassment

Firm: Law Offices of David L. Lee

660   53 West Jackson Boulevard   , Chicago , Illinois 60604

Practice Areas: Civil Rights,Contracts,Discrimination,Employment & Labor ,Wages/Commissions/Overtime

Firm: Ed Fox & Associates, Ltd.

300 West Adams Street , Chicago , Illinois 60606

Practice Areas: Assault and Battery, Civil Rights, Elder Law, Labor and Employment, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Police Misconduct, Prisoners Rights, Sexual Assault, Sex Harassment, Wrongful Death, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Firm: Elaine K. B. Siegel and Associates, P.C.

39 South La Salle Street   617  6 , Chicago , Illinois 60603

Practice Areas: Civil Rights,Education ,Employment & Labor