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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Tom Geoghegan |
| Address | 1506 W. Cornelia Dr
Chicago, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
January 22, 1949
(75 years)
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Oct 02, 2017 10:43pm |
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| Info | Thomas H. Geoghegan is a Chicago lawyer and author. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (1975) and Harvard College (1971).
Tom has fought to recover lost pension benefits and health insurance arising from plant closings. He has represented many different local unions, including nurses, truck drivers, steelworkers and railroad workers.
He has worked for rank and file groups like the Teamsters for a Democratic Union to require greater rank and file democracy. He has often represented women and older workers fighting against sex and age discrimination. He was one of the original members of the National Employment Lawyers Association.
In addition to his work in the pension, labor and civil rights area, he has done other public interest legal work. Recently, he helped conclude a case to require a charitable hospital to provide free or reduced care for the uninsured. He has also worked to reform the political process – for example, several years ago he won early election voting or broader absentee balloting. He is currently involved in a case to require the State of Illinois to enforce laws against payday lenders.
He is author of Which Side Are You On? Trying To Be For Labor When It’s Flat On Its Back (1991, Farrar Straus and Giroux). In 1991, it was nominated as one of the five best non-fiction works by the National Book Critics Circle. Which Side Are You On? was republished in 2004 by the New Press in an updated edition describing the current state of the labor movement in America. His other books include The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life (1999, Pantheon) and In America’s Court: How A Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled Into A Criminal Trial (2002, New Press). He has contributed to The Nation, In These Times, The New Republic, The Financial Times, the New York Times op-ed page, and other publications on such subjects as labor, the economy, and law. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Sunday Morning News, and the Lehrer News Hour. He was a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin in Spring 2004. He has been a columnist for The American Prospect. His most recent book is See You in Court: How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation (2007, New Press), which will appear in paperback in January 2009.
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