Cathleen M. Combs

Attorney Combs supervised the Northwest office of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, where she was lead or co-counsel in class actions in the areas of unemployment compensation, prison law, social security law, and consumer law. She joined what is now Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC in early 1991 and became a named partner in 1993. She is a member of the Illinois bar and admitted to practice in the following courts: United States District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of Illinois, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Ms. Combs received an Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service from the Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association on May 18, 2012. Ms. Combs has argued over fifteen cases in the 1st, 3rd and 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Illinois Appellate Court, and she is a frequent speaker on consumer law topics at various legal organizations including the Chicago Bar Association and the National Consumer Law Center's Consumer Rights Litigation Conferences. Ms. Combs is coauthor of The Bankruptcy Practitioner's Guide to Consumer Financial Services Actions After the Subprime Mortgage Crisis (LRP Publications 2010).

• Attorney

• Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, Supervisor, Northwest Office, 1982 - 1991
• Balbach & Fehr, Associate, 1979 - 1981

• Johnson v. Heckler
• Citation: 607 F.Supp. 875
• Court: N.D.Ill.
• Year: 1984
• Serial Number: 1985122480
• Sanders v. Shephard
• Citation: 541 N.E.2d 1150
• Court: Ill.App. 1 Dist.
• Year: 1989
• Serial Number: 1989094511
• Maller v. Cohen
• Citation: 531 N.E.2d 1029
• Year: 1988
• Serial Number: 1988157059
• Wright v. Department of Labor
• Citation: 519 N.E.2d 1054
• Year: 1987
• Serial Number: 1988021363
• Barron v. Ward
• Citation: 517 N.E.2d 591
• Serial Number: 1987130861
• City of Chicago v. Leviton
• Citation: 484 N.E.2d 438
• Year: 1985
• Serial Number: 1985148150
• Jude v. Morrissey
• Citation: 454 N.E.2d 24
• Year: 1983
• Serial Number: 1983140198
• Suesz v. Med-1 Solutions, LLC
• Citation: 734 F.3d 684
• Court: 7th Cir.
• Year: 2014
• Nielsen v. Dickerson
• Citation: 307 F. 3d 623
• Year: 2002
• Chandler v. American General Finance, Inc.
• Citation: 329 Ill. App.3d 729, 768 N.E.2d 60
• Court: 1st Dist.
• Miller v. McCalla Raymer
• Citation: 214 F. 3d 872
• Year: 2000
• Bessette v. Avco Financial Services
• Citation: 230 F. 3d 439
• Court: 1st Cir.
• Emery v. American Gen. Fin., Inc.
• Citation: 71 F. 3d 1343
• Year: 1995
• Siwulec v. J.M. Adjustment Servs., LLC
• Citation: 465 Fed. Appx. 200
• Court: 3rd Cir.
• Year: 2012
• McDonald v. Asset Acceptance, LLC
• Citation: 296 F.R.D. 513
• Court: E.D.Mich.
• Year: 2013
• Tocco v. Real Time Resolutions
• Citation: 48 F.Supp.3d 535
• Court: S.D.N.Y.

• Illinois, 1976
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1976
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1988

• Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar (Member)
• Chicago Bar Association
• National Association of Consumer Advocates