Attorney Biographies

Thomas R. Meites is our founding partner (with former partner Lynn S. Frackman) and a leader in the plaintiffs' bar & Mr. Meites is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was recently appointed by the President of the United States to a seat on the board of the Legal Services Corporation and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. Mr. Meites is currently a lecturer at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy and previously served as litigation director for Chicago's Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, a not-for-profit fair housing organization, and as a member of a negotiated rulemaking committee of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Areas of Practice

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

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1969
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar, 1982

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969
  J.D.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Law Review: Harvard Law Review, Member, Editorial Board; Articles Editor
  
  
• Harvard College, 1965
  B.A.
  
  

Published Works

• "Civil Liberties: Employment Discrimination, Due Process, Immunities and Exhaustion of Remedies (with Kenneth N. Flaxman), 56 Chicago Kent Law Reviews 24, 73, 1980
• "Distribution of the Settlement Fund in a Class Action: The Role of the Class Attorney (with Sargent L. Aborn), ABA Section on Litigation, "Litigation", Spring, 1981
• "Securities Law" (with Mary Rose Strubbe), 59 Chicago Kent Law Review 709, 1983
• "Explaining Deviations from the Fifty-Percent Rule: A Multimodal Approach of the Selection of Cases for Litigation (with Daniel Kessler and Geoffrey Miller), 25 Journal of Legal Studies 233, 1996

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Instructor, Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy, 1999 - Present
• Employment Discrimination, "Practice and Procedure in Employment Discrimination Litigation, Including Class Action Principles", Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1981, 1984, and 1985-1987

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Legal Services Corporation, 2003 - Present
  Board of Directors
  
  
• Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1977 - 1982
  Board of Governors
  
  
• Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1986 - Present
  Chair, Federal Courts Committee
  
  
• Appleseed Fund for Justice, 2000 - 2002
  Chair
  
  
• Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, 1978 - 1979
  Director
  
  
• Illinois Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Commission, 1975-1980, 1975 - 1980
  Member, Hearing Board
  
  
• Citizens' Schools Committee, 1971 - 1972
  Member, Board of Directors
  
  
• Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1971 - Present
  Member
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Judge J. Edward Lumbard, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Law Clerk, 1969 - 1970
• Businessmen for the Public Interest, 1970 - 1971
• Private Practice, Chicago, 1971 - 1979
• (S.D. Ill.), Special Master to Oversee Remedial Phase of Class Litigation, Mister v. I.C.G.R.R., 81-3006, 1989 - 1993

Birth Information

• September 27, 1943, Chicago, Illinois