James O. Latturner 120 S. La Salle Street #1800 Chicago, Illinois 60603 |
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James O. Latturner is a 1962 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. Until 1969, he was an associate and then a partner at the Chicago law firm of Berchem, Schwantes & Thuma. From 1969 to 1995 he was Deputy Director of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, where he specialized in consumer law, including acting as lead counsel in over 30 class actions. His publications include Chapter 8 ("Defendants") in Federal Practice Manual for Legal Services Attorneys (M. Masinter, Ed., National Legal Aid and Defender Association 1989); Governmental Tort Immunity in Illinois, 55 Ill.B.J. 29 (1966); Illinois Should Explicitly Adopt the Per Se Rule for Consumer Fraud Violations, 2 Loy. Consumer L.Rep. 64 (1990), and Illinois Consumer Law (Chicago Bar Ass'n 1996.). He has taught in a nationwide series of 18 Federal Practice courses sponsored by the Legal Services Corporation, each lasting four days and designed for attorneys with federal litigation experience. He has argued some 30 appeals, including two cases in the United States Supreme Court and two in the Illinois Supreme Court. Mr. Latturner was involved in many of the significant decisions establishing the rights of Illinois consumers.
Consumer Rights
- Areas of Practice:
- 25% Consumer Law
- 75% Class Actions
- Deceptive Trade Practices
- RICO Act
- Trade Regulation
- Unfair Competition
- Mortgages & Foreclosures
- Foreclosures
- Garnishment
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Warranties
- Wage & Hour Laws
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act
- Bankruptcy Litigation
- Complex Litigation
- Federal Appellate Practice
- Federal Trial Practice
- Multidistrict Litigation
- State Appellate Practice
- State Trial Practice
- US Supreme Court
- Landlord/Tenant
- Bar Admissions:
- Illinois, 1963
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1964
- U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1965
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1970
- U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2003
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1997
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1997
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 1997
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1996
- U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 2000
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 2002
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 2002
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 2002
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- Education:
- University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois,
1962
J.D. - Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
B.S.
Major: Business
- Published Works:
- Federal Practice Manual, National Legal Aid and Defender Association, 1989
- Governmental Tort Immunity in Illinois, 55 Ill. B.J. 29, 1966
- Illinois Should Explicitly Adopt the Per Se Rule for Consumer Fraud Act Violations, 2 Loy. Consumer L. Rptr. 64, 1990
- Illinois Consumer Law, Chicago Bar Association, 1996
- Representative Cases:
- Gonzalez v. AECU, 419 U.S. 90 (U.S. Supreme 1974)
- Dixon v. Love, 431 U.S. 105 (U.S. Supreme 1977)
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Federal Practice, Legal Services Corp., 1995 - 1999
- Consumer Financial Services, PLI, 2006 - 2008
- Past Employment Positions:
- Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Deputy Director, 1969 - 1995
- Berchem, Schwanes & Thuma, Partner, 1962 - 1969
