Cathleen M. Combs is a 1976 graduate of Loyola University Law School. She Formerly supervised the Northwest office of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, where she was lead or co-counsel in class actions in the areas of unemployment compensation, prison law, social security law, and consumer law. She joined what is now Edelman, Combs & Latturner, LLC in early 1991 as an associate. Decisions which she was involved prior to joining the firm include: Johnson v. Heckler, 607 F. Supp. 875 (N.D. Ill. 1984), and 100 F.R.D. 70 (N.D. Ill. 1983); Sanders v. Shephard, 185 Ill. App. 3d 719, 541 N.E. 2d 1150 (1st Dist. 1989); Maller v. Cohen, 176 Ill. App. 3d 987, 531 N.E. 2d 1029 (1st Dist. 1988); Wright v Department of Labor, 166 Ill. App. 3d 438, 519 N.E. 2d 1054 (1st Dist. 1988); Barron v Ward, 165 Ill. App. 3d 653, 517 N.E. 2d 591 (1st Dist. 1987); City of Chicago v. Leviton, 137 Ill. App. 3d 126, 484 N.E. 2d 438 (1st Dist. 1985); Jude v. Morrisey, 117 Ill. App. 3d 782, 454 N.E. 2d 24 (1st Dist. 1983).

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