Seth Remy Yohalem joined Scandaglia & Ryan on January 14, 2008, after working as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Chicago office) for more than three years.  Mr. Yohalem has experience representing clients in a variety of commercial litigation matters, including contract and insurance coverage disputes, class action defense and antitrust actions.  In addition to practicing law, Mr. Yohalem is a Metro Board member, Metropolitan Family Services, a leading human services agency that has been helping families throughout Chicago and surrounding suburbs for 150 years.  In 2004, he received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar all three years.  He also was a writing and research editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems for which he authored the article “We’ll Always Have Parish:  The Ninth Circuit Court Decision and Its Implications for Enforcement of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.”  In 2001, Mr. Yohalem earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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