Background
Lopatka, Kenneth T. was born on October 18, 1947 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
Lopatka, Kenneth T. was born on October 18, 1947 in Evanston, Illinois, United States.
Illinois Benedictine College (Bachelor of Arts, 1968). Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1971).
Worked at Matkov, Salzman, Madoff & Gunn (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Civil Trial, Administrative Law, Labor Management Law, Employment Discrimination Law. Admitted to the bar, 1971, Illinois. 1977, Massachusetts.
Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1970-1971.
Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 1983. Partner, Jenner & Block, Chicago, 1983-1989.
Associate then Partner, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977-1983. Assistant then Associate Professor, University of Illinois College of Law, 1973-1977.
Law Clerk, Honorary Walter J. Cummings, United States.
Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1971-1973. Chairman, Labor and Empl. Trials Subcomm., American Bar Association Litigation Section(s).
Trial Practice Commander, 1986-1990.
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America: 1995-1996 educated Author: "The Unprotected Status of Partial Strikes After Lodge 76: A Reply to Professor Getman," 29 Stan.
L. Review 1181 (1977); "The Emerging Law of Wrongful Discharge - A Quadrennial Assessment of the Labor Law Issue of the 80"s," 40 Business Law.