Kate Sedey

Ms. Sedey graduated with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law in May 2009 where she received her Juris Doctorate and a Certificate in Labor & Employment Law. Prior to joining The Case Law Firm as an Associate Attorney Ms. Sedey worked as a law clerk for the firm for three years. Ms. Sedey has worked on a wide variety of legal projects and has a diverse body of experience in employment law firms including negotiating settlements and severance agreements, researching and drafting legal memorandums and briefs, arguing motions in court, interviewing witnesses, and answering and organizing discovery. Ms. Sedey graduated cum laude with a Bachelors of Science from New York University where she studied Urban Education Reform & Policy. While at NYU, Ms. Sedey served as a research assistant for several professors and interned at the NYU Institute for Education & Social Policy. Ms. Sedey's interest in employment law developed early and she has been working in plaintiff's employment law firms since high school. During her under-graduate years, Ms. Sedey assisted in a nation-wide class action lawsuit representing women who had been discriminated against on the job. More recently, she served as a paralegal at Penny Nathan Kahan & Associates in Chicago. Ms. Sedey actively pursued her interest in employment issues while studying law at Chicago-Kent. She participated in the Labor & Employment Certificate program, and was a two-time recipient of a scholarship from Chicago-Kent's Institute for Law & the Workplace. In addition, Ms. Sedey was a member of the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Honor Society, for which she participated in the national Wagner Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition in the spring of 2008 and coached a team attending the same competition in 2009. In her role on the Chicago-Kent Law Review, Ms. Sedey was approved for publication of an article entitled, "Applying the Discovery Rule to Title VII Pay Discrimination Claims: One Post-Ledbetter Strategy." Ms. Sedey received an award for excellence in legal writing in 2007, and served as a legal writing Teaching Assistant in the fall of 2008 and spring of 2009. Certificate in Labor & Employment Law.