For 13 years, Tom Kayes worked for some of the leading lawyers and law firms in the country.

But his first job out of college was working with women who’d been sexually harassed by their landlords. That first job led Tom to law school. He graduated from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law magna cum laude and Order of the Coif. At school, he interned for a federal judge, worked at a federal prosecutor’s office, won a teaching-assistant-of-the-year award, and was the law prom king in his final year.

After graduating, Tom clerked for Judge Richard C. Tallman on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington, and for Judge Edmond E. Chang on the Northern District of Illinois, the federal trial court in Chicago. He also worked as an attorney representing plaintiffs at leading civil rights, consumer class action, and mass tort law firms. He even spent the better part of two years at a major defense firm, but we don’t talk about that. 

He gives presentations on fair housing rights and teaches a seminar on housing discrimination at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

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