MEMBERS OF THE FIRM
MELISSA J. AUERBACH
J. DALE BERRY
GILBERT A. CORNFIELD
GILBERT FELDMAN
DAVID M. GOLDBERG
BARBARA J. HILLMAN (NY)
MICHAEL A. HOLLAND (DC)
JACOB POMERANZ (CA)
RICHARD J. TUPPER
JIM M. VAINIKOS
STEPHEN A. YOKICH

GAIL E. MROZOWSKI

ROBERT A. SELTZER (DC & MD)

PETER C. SWANSON

ARNOLD E. CHARNIN(1933-1978)
   
OF COUNSEL
MARTIN J. RUBIN BROUDY D. SIMONS LINZEY D. JONES (Retired)
ADDRESSES
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MEMBERS OF THE FIRM
ARNOLD E. CHARNIN:
Position: Member. (1933-1978).
MELISSA J. AUERBACH:
Position: Member.
Born: New York, N.Y., August 29, 1955
Admitted To Bar: 1980, Illinois.
Education: Yale University (B.A., 1977); Harvard University (J.D., 1980).
Member: Chicago Bar Association.
e-mail:: mauerbach@cornfieldandfeldman.com.
J. DALE BERRY
Position: Member.
Born: Roswell, New Mexico, January 17, 1943
Admitted To Bar: 1970, Illinois; U.D. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois.
Education: Michigan State University (B.A., cum laude, 1965); University of Michigan (J.D., 1970).
Member: Chicago Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors, McHenry County Defenders, 1985-1994; President of McHenry County Conservation Voters (MCCV), 1986-1993; Associated Firefighters of Illinois (AFFI), (General Counsel, 1990- ).
e-mail:: jberry@cornfieldandfeldman.com.
GILBERT A. CORNFIELD
Position: Member.
Born: Chicago, Illinois, July 6, 1931
Admitted To Bar: 1954, Illinois.
Education: University of Chicago (B.A., 1951; J.D., 1954).
Associate Editor: University of Chicago Law Review, 1954.
Author:
-Developing Standards for Determining Arbitrability of Labor Disputes by Federal Courts, Labor Law Journal, 1963
-The Partial Strike, Vol. 21, University of Chicago Law Review
-The Significance of the Supervisory and Managerial Definitions in the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act and the Public Labor Relations Act of Illinois, Vol. 60, No. 4, Chicago Kent Law Review, 1984.
Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
e-mail:: gcornfield@cornfieldandfeldman.com
GILBERT FELDMAN
Position: Member.
Born: Chicago, Illinois, May 7, 1931
Admitted To Bar: 1955, Illinois; 1956, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
Education: Northwestern University (B.S., 1952, with distinction,; J.D., 1955).
Comment Editor: Northwestern Law Review.
Author:
-The Illinois Judiciary and Public Employee Labor Disputes: A Return To An Imperial Judiciary? Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 3, 1977
-The Scope of Review, Due Process, and The Conscientious Objector--Some Unresolved Problems, Northwestern Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 5, November-December, 1955
-The Quantity Discount and Now The Quantity Limit, Northwestern Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 2, May-June, 1954
-Unclean Hands in Anti-Trust Cases: An Uncertain Future, Northwestern Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 5, November-December, 1953.
Member: Chicago Bar Association; Chicago Council of Lawyers.
e-mail:: gfeldman@cornfieldandfeldman.com
DAVID M. GOLDBERG:
Position: Member.
Born: Chicago, Illinois, March 17, 1954
Admitted To Bar: 1980, Illinois.
Education: Northwestern University (B.A., 1976); The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 1980).
Member: The John Marshall Law Review, 1979-1980.
Languages: Spanish.
e-mail::dgoldberg@cornfieldandfeldman.com
BARBARA J. HILLMAN
Position: Member.
Born: Chicago, Illinois, August 11, 1942
Admitted To Bar: 1967, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana , U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, U .S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court.
Education: University of Chicago (B.A., with honors, 1963; J.D., 1966).
Member: Welfare Council, Metropolitan Chicago, 1970-1971; Board Member, 1972-l979 and General Counsel, 1975-1977, Committee on Illinois Government; Secretary to the Board of TASC, Inc., 1976 -- ; Board of Directors, Illinois ACLU, 1981-1983; Chicago and American Bar Associations.
e-mail:: bhillman@cornfieldandfeldman.com
MICHAEL H. HOLLAND
Position: Member.
Born: Louisville, Kentucky, April 22, 1947
Admitted To Bar: 1973, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; 1974, Illinois; 1975, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1983, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Seventh, Tenth and District of Columbia Circuits.
Education: St. Louis University (A.B., 1969); Northwestern University (J.D., 1972).
Author:
-Executive Reorganization: An Examination of the State Experience and Article V, Section 11 of the 1970 Illinois Constitution, Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1977.
Member: General Counsel, International Union, United Mine Workers of America, 1982-1989; Election Officer, appointed by United States District Court, Southern District of New York, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1989-1993; Chairman and Trustee, UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, 1993 -- ; Visiting Committee, Northwestern University School of Law, 1992-1994; Board of Governors, Chicago Council of Lawyers, 1980-1982; The District of Columbia Bar; Chicago Council of Lawyers.
e-mail:: mholland@cornfieldandfeldman.com
JACOB POMERANZ
Position: Member.
Born: Hesse, Germany, August 22, 1946
Admitted To Bar: 1973, Illinois; 1978, California.
Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1968); Yale University (J.D., 1973).
Member: Assistant General Counsel, New York City Health Services Administration, 1971-1972; Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
e-mail:: jpomeranz@cornfieldandfeldman.com
RICHARD J. TUPPER
Position: Member.
Born: Muskegon, Michigan, August 30, 1957
Admitted To Bar: 1986, Illinois.
Education: Calvin College (B.A., 1979); Yale University (M.A., 1981); Harvard Law School (J.D., 1986).
e-mail:: rtupper@cornfieldandfeldman.com
JIM M. VAINIKOS
Position: Member.
Born: Melrose Park, Illinois, July 21, 1963
Admitted To Bar: 1990, Illinois.
Education: Northwestern University (B.A., 1985); American University (J.D., 1988). Alpha Lambda Delta. Member, Administrative Law Journal, American University, 1987-1988.
Member: Chicago, Helenic, Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
Languages: Greek.
e-mail:: jvainikos@cornfieldandfeldman.com
STEPHEN A. YOKICH
Position: Member.
Born: Detroit, Michigan, July 19, 1957
Admitted To Bar: 1982, Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
Education: Northwestern University (B.A., 1978); University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, 1981).
Law Clerk to Honorable George C. Edwards, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1981-1982.
e-mail:: syokich@cornfieldandfeldman.com
GAIL E. MROZOWSKI
Position: Associate.
Born: Chicago, Illinois, September 2, 1955
Admitted To Bar: 1981, Illinois.
Education: DePaul University; Northern Illinois University (B.S., 1977); Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., 1981).
Member:: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
e-mail:: gmrozowski@cornfieldandfeldman.com
ROBERT A. SELTZER
Position: Associate.
Born: Madison, Wisconsin, January 14, 1953
Admitted To Bar: 1992, Maryland; 1993, Illinois, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Ninth Circuits; 1995, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois.
Education: University of Wisconsin (B.A., with distinction, 1976); University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, 1992). Editor, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 1990-1992.
Member: Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations.
e-mail:: rseltzer@cornfieldandfeldman.com
PETER C. SWANSON
Position: Associate.
Admitted To Bar: 1998, Illinois.
Education: University of Iowa (B.A., 1992); Northeastern University (J.D., 1998).
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment.
e-mail:: pswanson@cornfieldandfeldman.com
OF COUNSEL
BROUDY SIMONS
Position: Of Counsel.
Born: Detroit, Michigan, May 3, 1925
Admitted To Bar: 1952, Illinois.
Education: University of Michigan (B.S., 1947; M.S., 1948); Northwestern University (J.D., 1952). Associate Editor: Northwestern Law Review, 1951-1952.
Member: Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations.