JAMES B. DYKEHOUSE

Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Litigation; Appellate Practice

Admitted: 1985, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1990, Michigan.

Law School: Northwestern University, J.D., 1985.

College: Amherst College, B.A., Philosophy, 1977; University of Chicago, M.A., 1981.

Biography: Arbitrator, Mandatory Arbitration Program, Cook County Illinois Circuit Court, 1990— Member, Executive Committee, DePaul University School of Law Center for Church/State Studies, 1993-1997 and 2001-2003. Formerly with Witwer Poltrock & Giampietro, 1985-2003.

Reported Cases: Chicago Board of Education v. Box, 191 Ill. App. 3d 31 (1st Dist. 1989); Chicago Board of Education v. Johnson, 211 Ill. App. 3d 359 (1st Dist. 1991); Chicago Board of Education v. Wood, 281 Ill. App. 3d 1010 (1st Dist. 1996); Hourne v. School Reform Board of Trustees, 185 Ill. 2d 443 (1999), 322 Ill. App. 3d 467 (1st Dist. 2001), 996 F. Supp. 773 (N.D. Ill. 1998); Piquard v. Board of Education Pekin Comm. Unit H.S. Dist., 242 Ill. App. 3d 477 (3rd Dist. 1993); Illinois Firefighters Alliance and Village of Maywood, 10 PERI 2045, Nos. S-CA-93-49, S-CA-93-51 (ISLRB Opinion and Order, October 26, 1994); Chicago Board of Education and Chicago Teachers Union, Local 1, IFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, 11 PERI 1074, No 95-CA-0039-C (IELRB ALJ, August 29, 1995), aff'd sub nom; Chicago Board of Education v. IELRB, 289 Ill. App. 3d 1019 (1st Dist. 1997); Chicago Board of Education v. IELRB, 289 Ill. App. 3d 1019 (1st Dist. 1997); Land v. Chicago Board of Education, 325 Ill. App. 3d 294 (1st Dist. 2001); Reece v. Chicago Board of Education, 328 Ill. App. 3d 773 (1st Dist. 2002); Jackson v. Chicago Board of Education, 192 Ill. App. 3d 1093 (1st Dist. 1989); Towner by Towner v. Chicago Board of Education, 275 Ill. App. 3d 1024 (1st Dist. 1995); Ben Kozloff, Inc. v. H&G Distributors, Inc., 717 F. Supp. 1336 (N.D. Ill. 1989); EDN Real Estate Corp. v. Marquette National Bank, 263 Ill. App. 3d 161 (1st Dist. 1994).

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