Of Counsel

Mitchell E. Garner

Education

Mitchell Garner graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He majored in economics. During his junior year, he studied political science, economics, and history at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Paris in Paris, France, from which he received a Certificate of Political Studies with Honors in June 1970. At Yale, he was in many student activities. He was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Yale Glee Club. He also participated in varsity athletics.  He was a member of the Yale Freshman Baseball Team (infielder) in 1968 and Yale Heavyweight Crew (coxswain) in 1971.

In 1975, he received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.  He was a member of the Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal, and served as Associate Editor of the Law Journal in his third year.

Work Experience

Following his college graduation, Mitch worked on the United States Senate campaign staff of his Congressman in Chicago, Roman C. Pucinski, as the director of research.  From 1975 to 1976, Mitch was a law clerk to Justice Francis S. Lorenz of the Illinois Appellate Court, First Judicial District. From 1976 to January 1983, he served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Cook County State’s Office in Chicago, Illinois, where he was assigned to the special prosecutions unit and later the felony criminal division.  As a prosecutor, he tried numerous bench and jury trials. From 1983 to 1989, he was an associate and later a partner in the law firm of Spindell, Kemp & Kimball in Chicago, Illinois, where he practiced primarily in the area of employee benefits. From 1989 to 1990, he was an attorney with the law firm of Keck, Mahin & Cate in Chicago, Illinois, where he practiced in the area of employee benefits. From 1990 to 1993, he was in-house legal counsel for Hewitt Associates in Lincolnshire, Illinois, where he worked as a legal consultant on miscellaneous employee benefits matters. From 1993 to 2003, he was an attorney with the law firm of Stevenson Keppelman Associates in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he worked primarily in the area of employee benefits. He joined Allotta | Farley Co., L.P.A. in February 2003. Since joining Allotta | Farley Co., L.P.A., he has practiced exclusively in the area of employee benefits, specializing in Taft-Hartley plans for collective bargaining groups, and has made numerous presentations to clients and attorneys regarding legal developments in employee benefits matters.

Legal Publications

Note, The New Illinois Death Penalty:  Double Constitutional Trouble, 5 Loyola of Chicago Law Journal 351 (1974).

Writer for Allotta | Farley Weekly Client Broadcast Publication from 2007 to present.

Writer and Editor for Tax Newsletter, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, from 1986 to 1991.

Garner, Our Linguistic Tower of Babel, Chicago Tribune, March 6, 1973, §1, at 14.