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Joanne Simboli Hodge
Clinical Professor of Lawyering Skills
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.427.2737 ext. 531
Email: 7hodge@jmls.edu
BA, Swarthmore College
JD, Northwestern University
After law school, Joanne Simboli Hodge clerked for the Honorable Luther Swygert on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1986-1998, she was an assistant corporation counsel with the City of Chicago Law Department, working in the Appeals Division (1986-89), the Labor and Personnel Division (1989-93), and the Labor Division (1993-97). Professor Hodge then spent a year and a half as an Administrative Law Judge with the Illinois Human Rights Commission.
From 2000-2003, she was an associate with Chicago-based firm Neal Murdock & LeRoy, where she litigated, consulted on, and mediated employment and labor matters. Immediately prior to coming to John Marshall, Professor Hodge was a writing specialist at the DePaul University College of Law, where she created a Writers' Workshop for 1Ls, taught legal writing, and supervised the teaching assistants in the writing center.
She came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in 2004 and joined the full-time faculty in 2006. She teaches Lawyering Skills, Appellate Writing, Disability Law, Employment Law, Contracts II, and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and is associate director of the moot court program.
Scholarship
"Disability" in Employment Discrimination Law, ABA Labor and Employment Law Section (cum. supp. 2010)
Presentations
"Managing Risks Related to Employee Discharges," The Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (September 2008)
"Basic Skills Course," The Chicago Bar Association (May 2008)
