Linda Crane - Lawyer in Chicago, IL - Avvo

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License

State	Status	Acquired	Updated
IL	Active And Authorized To Practice Law	1983	03/13/2022

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Awards

Award name	Grantor	Date Granted
Outstanding Service to the Profession Award	The John Marshall Law School	2011
Special Tribute Lifetime Acheivement Award	Cook County Bar Association	2010
Norman C. Amaker Award	Midwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc.	2010
Visionary Award	National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences	2004
Chicago Women Making a Difference	Today's Chicago Women Magazine	1999

Keynote Speaker	Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management for Opening Plenary , 12th Annual Black Business Conference	1999
York Star Award	Akainya Gallery	1999
Building Human Capital Program, Keynote Speaker	Partners in Business community Action Agency Counsel of Lake County, Illiniois	1999
Honoree in the field of Education	Midwest Womens’ Center 11th Annual "Tribute to Chicago Women,"	1996

work experience

Title	Company name	Duration
Founder and Principal Attorney	Crane Law Group, P.C.	2002 - Present
Professor of Law	The John Marshall Law School	1989 - 2014
Vice President	Bear Stearns, Inc.	1987 - 1989
Registered Representative	Merrill Lynch & Co.	1983 - 1986
Strategic Issues Analyst	Navistar, Inc.	1981 - 1983

associations

Association name	Position name	Duration
Chicago Estate Planning Council	Member	2015 - Present
Chicago Trustee Collaboratory	Member	2015 - 2016
Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)	Trustee	2006 - 2009
Greater Chicago Food Depository	Board Member	2005 - 2014
Midwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc., Board	Secretary/Treasurer	1999 - 2008

Chicago State University Foundation Board	Member	1999 - 2015
Central States Law Schools Association	President	1999 - 2000
Midwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc., Board	Member	1999 - 2015
Cook County Bar Association, Affirmative Action Committee	Chairperson	1998 - 2000
Chicago Bar Associateion, Judicial Evaluation Committee	Vice Chair	1998 - 1999
MacCormac Business College	Board of Trustees	1997 - 2005
Little Company of Mary Hospital Foundation	Board of Directors	1997 - 2001
Legal Elections in All Precincts Research and Educational Fund, Inc. (Project L.E.A.P.) Board of Directors	President	1996 - 1998
Chicago Bar Association, Womens' Alliance Legal Educaion Subcommittee	Co-chair	1995 - 1997
Cabrini Green Tutoring Program Board of Dirctors	President	1994 - 1996
The Links, Incorporated, International Trends & Services Committee	Chair	1994 - 1997

publications

Publication name	Title	Date
14 Seattle University Journal for Social Justice 873	Cuba Revisited: From Revolution to Evolution,	2014
31.5 Columbia Journal of Race and Law,	Checking Out of the Exception to U.C.C. 3-104: Why Parties Should Be Able to Negotiate Whether Their Checks Should Be Payable On Demand	2012
!, Seattle University School of Law Review, Fall 2008.	Law School Deaning: Accepting the Job and Key First Steps -- Be Careful What You Wish For!,	2008
4 Barry University Law Review 71,	From Gibbons to Lopez: Does the Commerce Clause Remain a Viable Tool for Eliminating the Vestiges of Slavery?,	2004
, 20 Boston College Third World L. J. 13	Reflections From The Chair: Honoring The Decade of Scholarship By Law Professors of Color in U.S. Law Schools and The People of Color Legal Scholarship Movements (1989-1999) -- A Quest For Quality	2000

American Bar Association Press	Living Your Dream And Do Good Too” (contributing author) “Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who’ve Been There and Done That,	2000
34 New England Law Review 1 (	Grading Law School Examinations: Making A Case For Objective Exams to Cure What Ails ‘Objectified’ Exams	2000
33 J. Marshall L. Rev. 48	Graduate Law Degree Programs and Interdisciplinary Combined Degree Programs with Law: History and Trends,	1999
36 California Western Law Review	Symposium: Introduction to the Works-In-Progress Presented During the First National Meeting of the Six Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences: March 25-27, 1999	1999
7 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal	Haitians: Seeking Refuge in the U.S	1994
1991 Wisc. L. Rev. 1427	Forum, Colorizing the Law School Experience	1993
25 Conn. L.Rev. 427	Family Values and the Supreme Court	1993
6 National Bar Association Magazine 16 (1992	Can We Talk? Reflections of Seven Female African-American Law Professors	1992

education

School name	Degree	Graduated
Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management	M.B.A.	1981
Northwestern University School of Law	J.D.,	1981
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign	B.A.S.,	1977

speaking engagements

Conference name	Title	Date
2015 U.S.-Cuba Policy Talks	“Toward Developing an infrastructure for Preventing and Resolving Private Business disputes in Cuba: Lessons Learned in the U.S.”	2015
2015 U.S.-Cuba Policy Talks	“Recommendations To Cuba For Building New Judicial Infrastructure To Support A New Private Business Economy	2014
Black History Month Panel	“Race and Race Theory”,	1999

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