The Lawyers Club of Chicago

12/22/2025

Join us for our next event on January 13th:

Join us on January 13th for lunch at the Union League Club when Donna Haddad and Daniel Linna discuss the intersection of artificial intelligence and the practice of law.

08/28/2025

We invite you to join us for our first event of the 2025-2026 membership year on September 9th:

Amrith Kaur Aakre discusses her life and work as Director of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Chicago District.

01/11/2024

Please join us for our next event on January 18:

Join us for lunch and conversation with Renato Mariotti – What Work as a Legal Analyst Taught Me About the Practice of Law.

03/17/2023

Please join us for our next event on March 22:

Join the Lawyers Club of Chicago for a presentation “Resorting to Fishbowls in Today’s Marketplace(s) of Ideas”A Talk by U.S. Circuit Judge Michael Y. Scudder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

10/19/2022

Please join us for our next event on October 26th featuring Dr. Claudia Fegan, CMO of Cook County Health.

The Lawyers Club of Chicago is delighted to welcome Dr. Claudia Fegan, Chief Medical Officer of Cook County Health, to address disparities in access to health care, the need for sweeping national health care reform, and what is being done here in Chicagoland to achieve...

04/27/2022

Please join us for our next event on May 4, 2022:

The Lawyers Club of Chicago is delighted to welcome Dean Joseph Kearney of the Marquette University Law School and Professor Thomas Merrill of Columbia University Law School to speak about the history of Chicago’s lakefront. Their critically acclaimed book was published by Cornell University Press in 2021.

Authors of Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago Battles over who should control Chicago’s lakefront have shaped and defined our city since its earliest days. Lakefront property owners sued the Illinois Central Railroad in the late nineteenth century, in a case tried before...

01/09/2020

Jan. 16: Please join us for our first event of 2020. The Lawyers Club of Chicago hosts a discussion with the creators of WBEZ podcast Public Official A. Tickets are available via the link below.

https://lawyersclubchicago.org/lawyers-club-chicago-events/public-official-a-2/

We’re all familiar with the quote that brought down the former governor of Illinois. “I’ve got this thing and it’s (expletive) golden,” Rod Blagojevich said in a conversation secretly recorded by government agents. “I’m not just giving it up for (expletive) nothing.” You may be...

09/13/2019

Sept. 19: Lawyers Club Hosts WTTW "Chicago Tonight" Correspondent and Segment Host Paris Schutz

https://lawyersclubchicago.org/lawyers-club-chicago-events/paris-schutz/

Anton Cermak, William Thompson, Richard J. and Richard M. Daley, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, and Rahm Emanuel. Each name is synonymous with a period of civic turmoil. Politics in Chicago is a contact sport and local media is in the middle of the scrum. Join...

11/01/2017

Meet Shon Hopwood, a former bank robber who's now a Georgetown law professor, and meet Jarrett Adams, an exoneree who's a litigator with the Innocence Project. Join the Lawyers Club on November 14, 2017 for a panel discussion on criminal justice reform, moderated by Prof. Laura Caldwell. This event is open to Lawyers Club members and their guests. For more info, email [email protected]

09/13/2017

The Lawyers Club is excited to start our 2017-2018 season! We invite members and guests to join us for our kickoff event at the Driehaus Museum on September 19. Then, on October 6, we welcome former White House counsel Richard Painter for a lunch program titled "Ethics and Emoluments in the White House." Not a member but interested in attending? Message this page.

06/13/2017

The Breeze Off the Lakes: how current political winds are blowing through the Midwest Rust Belt -- the Lawyers Club is excited to announce that writer Ted McClelland will be addressing the Club on Tuesday, June 27. Learn more about Ted at www.edwardmcclelland.com

Edward McClelland is a native of Lansing, Mich., which is also the birthplace of Burt Reynolds and the Oldsmobile. Ted’s most recent book, Nothin’ But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America’s Industrial Heartland, released in 2013 by Bloomsbury Press, is a history of the Rust Belt,…

04/10/2017

Join us on May 5 for a lunch featuring Above the Law's David Lat -- email [email protected] for more info!

http://abovethelaw.com/author/david-lat/

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