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Practice Expertise
- Business & Commercial
- Litigation
- Political Compliance, Elections & ...
- Privacy and Data Security
Areas of Practice
- Business & Commercial
- Litigation
- Political Compliance, Elections & ...
- Privacy and Data Security
Profile
Kevin Connor is an associate in Dykema's Business Litigation and Privacy and Data Security groups. Mr. Connor's litigation practice includes representing clients in all phases of business and commercial litigation, including premises liability defense, class action defense, commercial contract disputes, commercial foreclosures, torts, and government compliance matters. Mr. Connor's privacy and data security practice includes advising domestic and international clients on issues of breach response, employee training, risk assessment, policies and procedures, corporate compliance projects and revising services agreements to include adequate privacy and data security protections.
Mr. Connor maintains a robust pro bono practice. He has represented clients in asylum cases, criminal appeals, civil rights cases, guardianship cases, records expungement petitions, and represents the elderly and disadvantaged in contract disputes. Prior to rejoining Dykema, Mr. Connor worked at a nonprofit on Chicago's West Side, providing counseling and legal services to young people from one of Chicago's most distressed neighborhoods. Mr. Connor is also a member of the Diversity Awareness Committee in Dykema's Chicago office.
While in law school, Mr. Connor served as a Lefkow Fellow at the Legal Assistance Foundation in Chicago and externed at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He also worked at the MacArthur Justice Center on class-action civil rights cases for prisoners, and spent his third year of law school in Northwestern's Juvenile Justice Clinic, where he was a criminal justice advocate for young people.
Bar Admissions
Illinois, 2015
Indiana, 2020
Education
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2015 Boston College, B.A., cum laude, 2007
Areas of Practice
- Business & Commercial
- Litigation
- Political Compliance, Elections & Campaign Finance
- Privacy and Data Security
Articles
DOJ Adds More Incentives To Corporate Enforcement Policy
By Kevin Connor, Mark Chutkow, Joanna Zimolzak, Timothy Caprez, Sean Griffin |January 2023Adding up the Numbers: DOJ Announces Its False Claims Act Recoveries for 2020
By Kevin Connor |February 2021Adding up the Numbers: DOJ Announces Its False Claims Act Recoveries for 2020
By Kevin Connor |February 2021
Blogs
Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments
Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments provides legal insight on topics of special interest to insurance industry professionals. Covering a wide range of industries, Dykema's Insurance Coverage Notes and Developments blog provides brief but substantive alerts, including updates and analysis on significant developments and trends in the insurance industry.
The Firewall
The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.
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