The Case Law Firm, LLC
"An Employment Law Firm Fighting For Employees' Rights"
Kristin M. Case is the founding Member of The Case Law Firm. She is admitted to practice law in Illinois as well as Missouri and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Illinois Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Missouri Supreme Court. Ms. Case has extensive experience representing clients during employment negotiations, before administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights, and throughout the litigation process both in state and federal courts.
Ms. Case received her Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Central Missouri State University where she served as an Editor for her college weekly newspaper. Prior to attending law school at the University of Missouri, Ms. Case clerked for the Missouri House of Representatives. During law school, Ms. Case focused her legal education on how to use the law to represent and empower individuals. In her last year of schooling, Ms. Case represented battered women and children in obtaining court protection from their abusers.
After receiving her Juris Doctorate, Ms. Case began her legal career clerking for the Honorable Ronald R. Holliger on the Missouri Court of Appeals. After clerking, Ms. Case moved to Chicago and worked as an associate attorney in the commercial litigation division of a Chicago law firm. After that and prior to forming The Case Law Firm, Ms. Case worked for Penny Nathan Kahan & Associates, a well-respected Chicago plaintiff’s employment law firm where she became a partner and regularly represented individuals in variety of employment cases.
Ms. Case has spoke and written at length about employment matters for a variety of organizations, including the Chicago Bar Association, the Chicago Chapter of the National Organization of Women and the Council on Education in Management. She has also been interviewed and quoted in a variety of publications.
Ms. Case is a member of both the National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”) as well as the Illinois chapter of NELA. Ms. Case was recently elected by her peers to the NELA-Illinois Board and currently serves as Secretary of the organization. Prior to becoming an officer of NELA-Illinois, Ms. Case also served as Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s YLS Labor and Employment Committee. Ms. Case is also honored to be a member of NELA’s ADA committee, which offers services and advice to attorneys representing individuals with disabilities. Law Clerk Kate Sedey is a second year law clerk for The Case Law Firm. Ms. Sedey will graduate with her Juris Doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law in May 2009. Ms. Sedey has worked on a wide variety of legal projects and has a diverse body of experience in employment law firms – from researching and drafting legal memorandums and briefs, to interviewing witnesses, and answering and organizing discovery. Ms. Sedey’s interest in employment law developed early and she has been working in plaintiff’s employment law firms since high school. During her under-graduate years, Ms. Sedey participated in a nation-wide class action lawsuit representing women who had been discriminated against on the job. More recently, she served as a paralegal at Penny Nathan Kahan & Associates in Ms. Sedey has actively pursued her interest in employment issues while studying law at Chicago-Kent. She is a participant in the Labor & Employment Certificate program, and a recipient of a scholarship from Chicago-Kent’s Institute for Law & the Workplace. In addition, Ms. Sedey is an active member of the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Honor Society, for which she participated in the national Wagner Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition in the spring of 2008. In her role on the Chicago-Kent Law Review, Ms. Sedey has recently been approved for publication of an article entitled, “Applying the Discovery Rule to Title VII Pay Discrimination Claims: One Post-Ledbetter Strategy.” Ms. Sedey received an award for excellence in legal writing in 2007, and will serve as a legal writing Teaching Assistant in the fall.
Ms. Sedey graduated cum laude with a Bachelors of Science from