Chicago Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law
The Chicago Lawyers' Committee maintains a focus in a broad range of civil rights and economic justice matters, including: hate crime prevention and response; employment discrimination litigation; affordable housing development efforts, fair housing complaints and fair mortgage-lending advocacy and litigation; and support for a broad range of economic development activity in Chicago, including free legal services to individuals using small businesses/micro-enterprises as strategies to achieve self-sufficiency.
Bartlit Beck lawyers work with staff attorneys from the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee to litigate cases in these areas. Prior efforts include successful representation of an African-American car salesman in a race discrimination claim against his former employer and securing an award of back pay, emotional distress damages and punitive damages in a case involving gender, age and race discrimination.