Arthur J. Howe

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Mr. Howe seeks innovative solutions to his client's legal challenges.

Mr. Howe is a member of the Illinois Bar and the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois, the Northern District of Indiana, the Western District of Michigan and the Eastern District of Wisconsin, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits.

Mr. Howe has extensive experience in complex business litigation, including employment, antitrust, contract, business tort, products liability and toxic tort cases. He has successfully tried to verdict cases ranging from an antitrust action alleging a 25-year nationwide price-fixing conspiracy to a multi-million dollar financial fraud/RICO action. He has litigated numerous evidentiary hearings, including prosecuting and opposing many motions for preliminary injunctions.

A 1985 graduate of Duke Law School, with highest honors and Order of the Coif, Mr. Howe also served as a member of the Duke Law Journal. He is a Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Wabash College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, with Distinction in Economics in 1982. Both Duke and Wabash awarded him full-tuition honors scholarships. During 1980 to 1981, Mr. Howe studied economic history at the London School of Economics.