Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Glen H. Kanwit is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation Practices and the Insurance Industry Team. He focuses on complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts, and insurance and reinsurance arbitrations.

Mr. Kanwit has been involved in a wide variety of civil cases, in diverse factual and legal settings, for over 35 years. For example, he has represented both insurance and reinsurance companies in complicated issues arising from reinsurance agreements, companies in significant tax litigation with the Internal Revenue Service, a French chemical company in litigation over a plant closure in the U.S., a national retailer accused of price fixing, a startup company accused of technology theft, pharmaceutical companies in patent infringement litigation, a government agency accused of wrongfully repudiating a $400 million bond issue, corporations in litigation against former employees for theft of trade secrets, a major brewer in several trademark infringement cases, both acquirors and target companies in corporate control contests, corporate defendants in securities and ERISA class actions, a wrestler seeking an injunction to be able to participate in the Olympics, and a Lebanese businessman accused of fraud in connection with construction of a dairy farm in Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Kanwit has achieved a success rate in excess of 90%, by approaching each case creatively to find the most effective and appealing factual and legal themes. He presents these themes at trial with a clear and common sense approach that incorporates the latest trial technology to enhance effectiveness of the evidence. He is recognized as a skilled and relentless cross examiner of opposition witnesses.

Mr. Kanwit is an adjunct professor at Northwestern Law School, teaching trial advocacy and civil discovery courses. He is a member of the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He has served as chair of the Civil Practice Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, and on the board of the Chicago Council of Lawyers. He was elected to two terms on the management committee of Hopkins & Sutter before its 2001 merger with Foley & Lardner. He was the national practice manager of the litigation department of Hopkins & Sutter, and for three years, chair of its recruiting committee.

Mr. Kanwit is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia Law School. He is admitted to the bar in Illinois and admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits; the Federal Circuit Court; the U.S. Tax Court; the U.S. Court of Claims; and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Areas of Practice

• Insurance Dispute Resolution
• Tax, Valuation and Fiduciary Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Chicago Bar Association (Chair of the Civil Practice Committee)
• Chicago Council of Lawyers (Board)

Past Employment Positions

• Northwestern Law School, Adjunct Professor

Education

• Columbia Law School, New York, New York
  J.D.
• Swarthmore College

Address

321 North Clark
Suite 2800
Chicago, IL 60654

Phones

(312) 832-4380

Faxes

312-832-4700

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