Rima Kapitan is the principal attorney at Kapitan Law Office, which specializes in employment litigation, consulting and advocacy on behalf of employees and small businesses.
In recent years she has increasingly focused on academic issues, representing professors in appeals of tenure denials, litigating civil rights cases in the university setting, and providing consulting for faculty governance bodies.
She has spoken on the topic of academic freedom at conferences and panels of the American Association of University Professors, the New York University School of Law, the Fordham University School of Law, and California State University.
She also previously served as Managing Partner of a 7-attorney law firm.
Ms.
Kapitan was admitted to practice in the State of Illinois Supreme Court in 2005, and is a member of the Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
She is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law and Indiana University’s Individualized Major Program.
