Attorney Biographies

Shona B. Glink is a partner in the firm Meites, Mulder, Mollica & Glink. She represents plaintiffs in class and multi-plaintiff actions covering all aspects of federal civil rights laws, with a focus on employment related actions, as well as ERISA, securities law, and other complex litigation. In addition to her work on employment, employee benefits and securities cases, Ms. Glink has extensive trial experience litigating affirmative action cases on behalf of municipalities, and an in-depth knowledge of the requirements for validating employment selection procedures under Title VII. She also has worked extensively with experts in the fields of economics, labor economics, statistics, industrial organizational psychology, sociology, psychology, test validation and development and damages, and she has tried cases in both federal and state courts. In addition, she has broad experience in successfully representing clients who seek resolution of their disputes through alternate dispute resolution. Based in New York, Ms. Glink is certified to practice law in the states of Illinois, Georgia and New York.

Areas of Practice

• Class Actions
• Employment Discrimination
• Federal Practice
• Complex Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1991
• Georgia, 2000
• New York, 2002
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar, 1998

Education

• University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, 1991
  J.D.
  Honors: Summa Cum Laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Honors: IL Women's Bar Foundation Scholarship of Academic & Overall Achievement
  Law Review: University of Illinois Law Review, Member of the Editorial Board, 1990 - 1991
  Law Review: University of Illinois Law Review, Topics Editor, 1991
  
  
• Tufts University, 1988
  B.A.
  
  

Published Works

• "The Prosecution of Maternal Fetal Abuse: Is this the Answer?", U. Ill. L. Review 533, 1991

Professional Associations and Memberships

• New York State Bar Association, 2002 - Present
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• Illinois State Bar Association, 1998 - Present
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• American Bar Association, 1991 - 2000
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• Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1998 - Present
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• National Employment Lawyers Association, 1998 - Present
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• Anti-Defamation League, Chicago Chapter, 1997 - 2000
  Executive Board, Civil Rights
  
  
• NELA/NY, 2002 - Present
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Hon. George M. Marovich, District Court Judge, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Law Clerk, 1991 - 1993
• City of Chicago, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Department of Law, Labor Division, 1993 - 1998
• Meites, Mulder, Burger & Mollica, Associate, 1998 - 2002

Birth Information

• October 28, 1966, Chicago, Illinois