Experience 

In June 1999 after teaching at ITT-Chicago Kent College of Law for twenty years, Mr. Kadish became the Director of Pro Bono Activities and Litigation Training for the firm.   With the combination of Mayer, Brown & Platt and Rowe and Maw, he works with London Pro Bono Partner, Julie Dickins, who is responsible for the London and Brussels pro bono practice.  Mr. Kadish is responsible for the U.S. and the rest of the international offices.  Marcia Maack is the Assistant Director of Pro Bono Activities.  Ms. Maack works out of our D.C. office.

Pro Bono and Litigation Training.

Mr. Kadish’s responsibilities as Director of Pro Bono Activities include finding worthwhile projects for lawyers, paralegals and other support personnel that will benefit our society. These pro bono projects include both litigation and transactional matters.  The only requirement is that the projects combine pro bono work and the training of young lawyers. Mr. Kadish’s direct representational or supervisory work has included the firm’s Seventh Circuit project, death penalty, murder and other felonies, prisoner’s civil rights cases, political asylum cases, and the local Federal Court’s Settlement Assistance Program.  For additional information on the firm’s pro bono program, please look at the pro bono website at http://www.mayerbrown.com/probono.  Mr. Kadish is also responsible for working on the firm’s charitable contributions to legal public interest groups.  He consults with the domestic offices in the firm and presents the budget to the Pro Bono Committee.  After approval by the Committee, the budget is then sent to the Management Committee.

Mr. Kadish’s responsibilities as Director of Litigation Training involve working with the National Litigation Training committee as well as with the Summer Associate program and the Orientation program for new associates.  He also works with Professor Morgan Cloud of Emory University School of Law on the firm’s interactive litigation training programs.

Mr. Kadish has tried over 60 jury trials during his career. He has also tried a larger number of bench trials.  Most of these trials have taken place in either the Federal or State courts in the Chicago area.  

Following is a list of litigation matters that Mr. Kadish has worked on since joining the firm:

Murder cases: (1) State vs. Sean Bloxton; (2) State vs. Clifton Carroll (three separate trials); (3) State vs. Patrick Carter; (4) State vs. Norman Derrickson; (5) State vs. Larry Filiung; (6) State vs. Burrell Geralds; (7) State vs. Lisa Gunderson; (8) State vs. Melvin Hammond; (9) State vs. Annette Harris; (10) State vs. Gary Henry (post-trial motions); (11) State vs. Daniel Lucas (post-trial sentencing and motions – appeal before the Illinois Supreme Court); (12) State vs. Samuel Lupo; (13) State vs. Gregory Madej (re-sentencing); (14) State vs.Cuahtemoc Padilla; (15) State vs. Deborah Taylor; (16) State vs. Aaron Thurman (pending); (17) State vs. Randy Williams.

Other Felonies:  (1) State vs. Sean Bloxton; (2) State vs. Anthony Boyce (pending); (3) State vs. Samuel Garcia (pending); (4) State vs. Aurelia Gonzalez (convicted of aggravated kidnapping, reversed on appeal, currently pending in the Illinois Supreme Court); (5) State vs. Larry Lee; (6) State vs. Kesheia Phillips (pending); (7) State vs. Phelixis Robinson (appeal); (8) State vs. Alan Love; (9) State vs. Quo Vadis Thompson.

Prisoner & Civil Rights Cases:  (1) Miller vs. Burns; (2) Farella vs. Hockaday; (3) Stephen vs. Hanley, et al.

Political Asylum cases:  (1) Elba Taguta; (2) Ken Sango; (3) Zarina Dhanji; (4) Roome Joseph; (5) Ndeye Penda Seye.

Teaching Experience:
Mr. Kadish began his teaching career in 1974 by teaching criminal law to inmates at both Pontiac and Stateville Correctional Centers in Illinois.  He continued teaching as an adjunct instructor at Columbia College in Chicago.  He taught Introduction to Law courses for undergraduate students and various seminars dealing with the criminal justice system.

Mr. Kadish joined the faculty of IIT-Chicago-Kent College of Law as a clinical teacher in 1979.  He remained on the Kent faculty until May 31, 1999 when he assumed his current position with the firm.  Mr. Kadish participated in Kent’s fee generating clinical program.  Students worked with him on criminal cases.  He also taught lawyering skills courses on interviewing, counseling and negotiating.

Mr. Kadish taught regular sections of Evidence for most of his twenty year affiliation with Kent Law School.  He also created a special four credit evidence course entitled Evidence and Evidence Advocacy.  He also taught Criminal Law, several experimental inter-disciplinary courses with engineering students from the undergraduate school which sought to create inexpensive ways to utilize computer generated graphics in the trial of criminal cases.  During his last semester at the school, he taught a seminar based on his experiences handling an Illinois death penalty case for over ten years, State v. Anthony Hall.

While a teacher at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Kadish also taught in the intensive trial advocacy program at Emory Law School.  He continues his work as an instructor through the special clinical trial advocacy program at the University of Chicago Law School.  In addition to his trial advocacy teaching experience, Mr. Kadish also taught ethics classes to commodity traders at both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. 

Mr. Kadish has also been a faculty member, speaker and panelist at a mandatory one day conference for first year law students at Northwestern Law School entitled, “Lawyer as Problem Solver."  He also co-teaches a seminar at Northwestern during the Spring semester entitled:  Pro Bono:  Theory and Practice.  Mr. Kadish has also spoken in classes or programs at the following law schools:  Stanford, Harvard, Georgetown, Emory, Indiana, DePaul, Loyola and Chicago-Kent, Houston, Columbia, and Virginia.

Mr. Kadish was also recently featured by AmLaw Daily and The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin for teaching trial skills to Cambodian law students.

Employment 
Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, 1999 to date; Director of Pro Bono Activities and Litigation Training  •  IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1979-1999  •  Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 1990-2000  •  Professor-Reporter, Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, 1984-1999  •  Sole Practitioner, 1977-1979  •  Kadish, Fennerty and Wayne, 1972-1977  •  Sole Practitioner, 1970-1972  •  Reginald Heber Smith Poverty Law Fellowship, 1969-1970  •  Vista Attorney, 1968-1969

Education 

Rutgers University School of Law, JD, 1968 • Rutgers University, BA, 1965

Admitted
Illinois, 1970  •  New Jersey, 1968