Jonathan Lubin

Jonathan Lubin is a trial and appellate lawyer based in Skokie, Illinois. He has run his own practice since 2008, representing individuals and businesses in employment, civil rights, and commercial litigation in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. Since 2012 he has worked with R Tamara de Silva on numerous state and federal cases, including complex federal trade secret, employment, and futures litigation.

He has argued before the Seventh Circuit and the Illinois Appellate Court, and his briefs appear in more than a dozen reported decisions, on issues running from property-tax assessment to religious liberty to insurance coverage. He also advises businesses on contract, regulatory compliance, and asset protection.

He is admitted in Illinois, the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, the Western District of Michigan, the Seventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Jonathan has been active in the Decalogue Society of Lawyers for most of his career. He served as its President from 2018 to 2019 after holding the offices of Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and Second Vice President. For more than a decade he co-chaired Decalogue’s Judicial Evaluation Committee, setting the standards the Society uses to rate candidates for the Cook County bench. He co-wrote Decalogue’s amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project, and he regularly teaches CLEs on religion and the law, employment matters, and civil rights history.

From 2008 to 2016 he volunteered with First Defense Legal Aid, taking overnight shifts to represent people held in Chicago police custody.

Jonathan earned his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law and his B.A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. He also studied at the Rabbinical College of America.