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zfreeman@millershakman.com
Mr. Freeman has experience in both federal and state court in a variety of commercial contexts. He has represented clients in legal malpractice cases, partnership disputes, defamation and product disparagement cases, workers compensation claims, and employment disputes involving wrongful discharge and the enforcement of restrictive covenants. His state court experience covers all levels of the practice from the trial court to the Illinois Supreme Court. In federal court, Mr. Freeman has handled a variety of matters, including employment, antitrust and constitutional cases. He also has experience in the bankruptcy court, where he has represented creditors in bankruptcy and adversary proceedings.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Freeman served as a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa from 1996 to 1998 and worked at Human Rights Watch from 1998 to 2000.
Education
- A.B., Princeton University, cum laude, 1995
Graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and
Public Affairs.
Awarded a Certificate in Environmental Studies.
- J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, cum laude, 2003
Admitted to the Order of the Coif.
Received the Lowden-Wigmore Prize.
Member of the Journal of International Law and Business.
Experience
- Admitted to the Illinois Bar in 2003.
- Admitted to the Northern District of Illinois Bar in 2004.
- Served as law clerk to the Hon. Ruben Castillo, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois from 2003 to 2005.
- Practiced as an associate with this firm since 2005.
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Chicago Council of Lawyers
- Illinois State Bar Association
Selected Engagements
- Defending a large law firm against a multi-million-dollar litigation malpractice claim stemming from the client’s representation of an independent music label.
- Defending a health care provider in complex antitrust matter involving registered nurses.
- Representing an attorney who was wrongfully expelled from a law partnership in an action for judicial dissolution and an accounting.
- Representing various pension funds and a union in a bankruptcy proceeding to prevent the discharge of their claims.
- Representing a real estate developer in advancing multi-million-dollar civil rights claims against the City of Chicago and other individual defendants.
- Representing a business and its owners in a defamation action involving a competitor’s advertisement that damaged the business and its owner’s reputations and disparaged the business’ products.
- Representing not-for-profit organizations in a federal action to protect their First Amendment rights and to ensure the City of Chicago’s compliance with a consent decree.
- Defended a business in an employment dispute involving allegations of age discrimination and retaliatory discharge.
- Represented an employer in litigation seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant, including serving as second-chair in an extended evidentiary hearing for injunctive relief.
- Appointed by U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to represent pro se plaintiff in a civil rights action against the City of Chicago as part of the district court’s pro se settlement assistance program.
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