FACULTY
Professor Martin H. Malin
Professor Martin H. Malin, Director of the Institute for Law
and the Workplace.
Professor Malin is Director of the Institute for Law and the
Workplace and teaches Labor Law, Employment Relationships, Public
Sector Employees, and Justice and the Legal System. He received
his B.A. from Michigan State University's James Madison College
and his J.D. from George Washington University, where he was an
editor of the law review and elected to Order of the Coif. He
joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1980, after serving as law
clerk to United States District Judge Rober E. DeMascio in Detroit
and on the faculty of Ohio State University. He is a former national
chair of the Labor Relations and Employment Law Section of the
Association of American Law Schools. He is a member of the National
Academy of Arbitrators, the Labor Law Group, and the College of
Labor and Employment Lawyers. Professor Malin serves on a number
of state and national arbitration panels, and is a hearing officer
for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. During 1984 and
1985 he served as consultant to the Illinois State, Local and
Educational Labor Relations Boards and drafted the Boards' regulations
implementing the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois
Educational Labor Relations Act. He has written extensively on
all aspects of labor and employment law, including Individual
Rights Within the Union, the leading treatise on the legal
relationship between workers and their unions.
Francine Soliunas
Assistant Dean for Strategy & Professional Development
and
Executive Director of Institute for Law & the Workplace
Professor Francine Soliunas serves as Executive Director for
the Institute for Law and the Workplace. She coordinates the Labor/Employment
Law Externship Program and assists with the planning and implementation
of Institute programs. She also serves as Director for Student
Professional Development at Chicago-Kent and as Director for the
Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars Program.
She joined Chicago-Kent in 2003 after spending almost 30 years
in the private practice of law. She obtained both her B.S. and
her J.D. degrees from DePaul University. After graduating from
law school, she was employed by the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission's Chicago District Office where she handled employment
discrimination cases across a ten state region. Immediately prior
to joining Chicago-Kent she was employed as corporate labor and
employment counsel for a Fortune 500 company for more than twenty
years. During that time, she was also the chief negotiator for
several of the company's labor agreements with four national unions.
Professor Soliunas has served on many professional and civic
boards and has been active in the leadership of many organizations
including Leadership Greater Chicago, Leadership America., the
Chicago Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Committee and the
Just The Beginning Foundation.
Professor Mary Rose Strubbe
Professor of Legal Research & Writing, Director of Legal Research & Writing Program, and Assistant Director of
Institute for Law and the Workplace
Professor Strubbe serves as Professor of Legal Research and Writing,
Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, and Assistant
Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace. She teaches
Employment Litigation, Legal Research & Writing, and Decedents'
Estates. She joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1994, after spending
eleven years in private practice handling employment-related matters.
Professor Strubbe received her B.A. from Mundelein College and
her J.D. from Chicago-Kent, where she was an editor of the law
review. She is the author of numerous articles on employment law
and is the principal author and editor-in-chief of the 1999 Cumulative
Supplement to the treatise, Sexual Harassment in Employment Law.
Professor Howard C. Eglit
Professor Howard C. Eglit, a leading authority on age discrimination,
teaches Employment Discrimination.
Professor Eglit teaches Employment Discrimination, Constitutional
Law, and Remedies. Professor Eglit holds a bachelor's degree from
the University of Michigan, and a law degree from the University
of Chicago, where he served on the law review and was elected
to the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty
in 1975, Professor Eglit served as an attorney with the Office
of Economic Opportunity and as legislative assistant to the late
Congressman William F. Ryan (N.Y.). He also was counsel to the
United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and
legal director of the Illinois Division of the American Civil
Liberties Union. Professor Eglit is a former chair of the Association
of American Law Schools Section on Law and Aging. Since 1990 he
has been a Fellow of the Buehler Center on Aging, McGaw Medical
Center, Northwestern University. He has served on numerous boards,
including of the board of directors of the Illinois chapter of
the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the Illinois Division
of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is a labor arbitrator
and the author of numerous articles and the multivolume treatise
Age Discrimination.
Professor Richard Gonzalez
Clinical Professor of Law
Professor Gonzalez is a member of the clinical faculty and teaches
Employment Discrimination, Pre-trial Litigation, Negotiations,
and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He received his bachelor's
degree from Northwestern University and his law degree from Ohio
State University College of Law. Before he joined the law school
faculty in 1988, he was a litigator with the Chicago law firm
of James D. Montgomery and Associates. He also spent four years
as an attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago,
and three years as an administrative law judge for the State of
Illinois Human Rights Commission. Professor Gonzalez is a frequent
speaker on the topics of employment discrimination and wrongful
discharge, and has served as an Illinois Bar grader and chair
of the Chicago Bar Association's Civil Rights Committee. He has
written numerous scholarly and practitioner-oriented articles.
Professor Laurie Leader
Professor of Clinical Practice
Professor Leader is a member of the clinical faculty and teaches
Employment Relationships. She joined the Chicago-Kent faculty
in 1999, and has practiced labor and employment law since 1977.
She is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington
University in St. Louis and a graduate of Cleveland-Marshall College
of Law at Cleveland State University, where she served as Executive
Editor of the Cleveland State Law Review. She is the author of
two treatises, Drafting Employment and Termination Agreements
(1993) and Wages and Hours: Law & Practice (1990); the volume
of Current Legal Forms that focuses on employment agreements;
and several articles and book chapters. She is also a contributor
to two major treatises on employment law and business law. From
1995-97, she chaired the Gender Bias in the Court Room Committee
of the Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women, and from
1988-89 she was co-chair of the Chicago bar Association's Young
Lawyer Section Labor and Employment Law Committee. She has represented
employee plaintiffs, employers, unions and fringe benefit funds.
Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Professor of Law
Dean Perritt came to Chicago-Kent as Dean and Vice President
of the Downtown Campus in 1997. He earned his B.S. in engineering
from MIT in 1966, a master's degree in management from MIT's Sloan
School in 1970, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center
in 1975. He is a former deputy under secretary of labor during
the Ford Administration and a former General Counsel for Labor
and Environmental Affairs with ConRail. He was a member of the
faculty at Villanova University Law School prior to joining Chicago-Kent.
Dean Perritt authored Employee Dismissal Law and Practice,
now in its fourth edition, Americans With Disabilities Act Handbook,
also in its fourth edition, Civil Rights in the Workplace,
in its third edition, and the annual Wiley Employment Law Update.
In 2001-01, Dean Perritt served as secretary of the ABA Section
on Labor and Employment Law.
Carolyn Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Shapiro earned a B.A. with general and special honors
in English from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from the University
of Chicago Harris Graduate School of Public Policy and a J.D.
(high honors)from the University of Chicago Law School where she
was articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and
a member of the Order of the Coif.
After graduation, Professor Shapiro was a law clerk for Chief
Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit and the for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme
Court. Prior to coming to Chicago-Kent in 2003, she worked as
an associate with Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where she handled
plantiff civil rights cases, and as a Skadden Fellow with the
National Center on Poverty Law.
Professor Shapiro's scholarly interests include federal courts,
and labor and employment law. She teaches professional responsibility,
employee relations and federal courts.
Jeffrey Sherman
Professor of Law and Senior Advisor, Graduate
Program in Taxation
Professor Sherman teaches Employee Benefits Law, Estates and
Trusts, and courses in taxation. He also serves as Senior Adviser
to the Graduate Program in Taxation. He received his bachelor's
and law degrees from Harvard University, where he served as a
staff ember of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
He spent three years with the St. Paul, Minnesota, firm of Doherty,
Rumble & Butler and a year with the Office of the Tax Legislative
Counsel in the United States Department of the Treasury, Washington,
D.C. He was an assistant professor of law at the University of
Illinois from 1976 to 1978, and joined the Chicago-Kent faculty
as an associate professor in the fall of 1978. He was a visiting
professor at Harvard in 1993 and 1995 and has also visited at
UCLA in 1990, the University of Miami in 1987, the University
of Illinois in 1983, and the University of Arizona in 1981. He
is the author of numerous articles in employee benefits, taxation
and wills, and of the casebook Pension Planning and Deferred
Compensation.
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