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Clients in the News...

University of Chicago Law School professor, David Weisbach, was a guest on the May 7 edition of The Afternoon Shift on WBEZ. He talked with host, Steve Edwards about the book he cowrote with fellow Law School professor, Eric Posner, called Climate Change Justice. More >

The Greater Chicago Food Depository Executive Director Kate Maehr published an OpEd in the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday, April 29. In it she discusses the need to preserve funding for SNAP (formerly Food Stamps), a crucial safety net for the working poor and those with low-incomes.

The Chicago Network held its 23rd annual Women in the Forefront Luncheon on Friday, April 27. Network member, Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods Inc., gave the keynote address to a sold-out crowd of 1,400. The Chicago Tribune's Emily York wrote about the event. More >

Communities In Schools of Chicago (CISC) was featured in an ABC7 piece on April 8 about one of its partners, Lloyd Bacharach and his "Yes, You Can!" program. Karen Myer, who reports on people with disabilities for ABC7, went to Sawyer Elementray School with Jane Mentzinger, executive director of CISC, to see him in action. More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Eric Posner and Glen Weyl, assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago, wrote an OpEd in Bloomberg on April 2, about the need for an FDA-like agency to regulate derivatives trading. More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Eric Posner, and University of Chicago assistant professor of economics, Glen Weyl, are quoted in Gretchen Morgenson's April 1 column in the New York Times. They discusss their paper on how a Wall Street version of the FDA might work in regulating new financial products. More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Anup Malani, was interviewed on WBEZ's The Afternoon Shift (please scroll down and click 'Listen to the Second Hour') and WTTW's Chicago Tonight on March 26 about the oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the health care reform act.

Project Exploration is featured in a February 17 Chicago Sun-Times article by Sandra Guy. Learn more about its recent expedition to Niger. More >

Paul Sereno was interviewed on Chicago Public Radio on February 10 about his expedition to Niger and the Green Sahara as well as the Chicago-based nonprofit, Project Exploration and its upcoming fundraiser, Dinner with a Dinosaur. More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Lior Strahilevitz, wrote a January 26 OpEd in the Chicago Tribune on U.S. v Jones called Can the police keep up with Jones?" More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Randal Picker was on WTTW's Chicago Tonight on January 17 to discuss copyright and technology and the SOPA draft bill that is before the House. More >

We are thrilled that two of our clients, the founders of Ladder Up and Project Exploration, have both been chosen as "Chicagoans of the Year" by Chicago magazine. Congratulations to Robert Burke and Gabrielle Lyon. More >

The University of Chicago Law School's Law and Economics 2.0 Initiative is highlighted in a November 28 Financial Times special report on Innovative Law Schools. More >

Saul Levmore, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and former dean of the law school, has written an OpEd in the November 16 Chicago Tribune on the NBA's contract talks and the eurozone's negotiations. More >

Featured Clients:

+ GMI Strategic Planning, Marketing & Sales

+Greater Chicago Food Depository Marketing and media relations

+ Communities In Schools of Chicago Marketing and media relations