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United States District Court
Northern District of Illinois

Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole

Chambers: (312) 435 - 5695

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

ENTERED ON DUTY
May 6, 2005

  • 1969  United States Department of Justice (Attorney General’s Program for Honor's Law  Graduates)

  • 1969 - 1975  Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois: Chief, Appellate Division; Assistant Chief, Criminal Division

  • 1975 - 2005  Private Practice

EDITORSHIPS

2002 - 2004 Editor-in-Chief, LITIGATION (American Bar Association, Section of Litigation)
   
2000 - 2002 Executive Editor, LITIGATION
   
1987 - 2000 Associate Editor, LITIGATION
   
2004 - Present Senior Editor, LITIGATION
   
2005 - Present Present Editor-in-Chief, The Circuit Rider (The Journal of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"The Federal Hearsay Rule: You Can't Believe Everything You Hear," __ LITIGATION __ (Spring 2008);

"Jilting the Judge: How to Make and Survive a Motion to Disqualify," 34 LITIGATION 48 (Winter 2008);

"Henry Friendly and the Unpublished Opinion That Could Have Changed History," The Circuit Rider, 13 (May 2007)

“An Afternoon with Judge Kanne,” The Circuit Rider, 6 (May 2007);

“A Portrait of Chief Judge Flaum,” The Circuit Rider, 13 (November 2006);

“Magistrate Judge Practice,” (Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2006);

"Hearsay, Juries, White Elephants and Hippopotamuses," 30 LITIGATION 49 (Winter 2004)(This article was selected for inclusion in the LITIGATION MANUAL (ABA 3d edition 2006);

“From The Bench: Lessons Discovered Along The Way Or Almost Everything We Ever Needed to Know We Did Learn In Kindergarten,” 32 LITIGATION, 3 (Spring 2006);

“A Life Well Lived: An Interview With Justice Stevens,” 32 LITIGATION (Spring 2006);

“Judge Joan Lefkow And The 2006 Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture: A Judge's Legacy,” The Circuit Rider, 10 (May 2006);

“Hail to the Chiefs,” The Circuit Rider, 6 (May 2006);

“The Demise of the No-Citation Rules: The Supreme Court Approves Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1," The Circuit Rider, 17 (May 2006);

“The United States District Court For The Northern District Of Illinois Makes Significant Modifications To Its Local Rules,” The Circuit Rider, 23 (May 2006);

“Magistrate Judge Practice,” (Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2006);

“My Afternoon with Alex: An Interview With Judge Kozinski,” 30 LITIGATION, 6 (Summer 2004);

“Hearsay, Juries, White Elephants and Hippopotamuses,” 30 LITIGATION, 49 (Winter 2004);

“Judge Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equal Justice,” 29 LITIGATION, 6 (Summer 2003);

“An Interview with Scott Turow: Reflections on Law and Life and Other Things That Matter,” 29 LITIGATION 8 (Winter 2003);

"The Continuing Riddle Of The Federal Hearsay Rule," 25 LITIGATION, 15 (1999);

"The Federal Hearsay Rule And Its Exceptions," The Litigation Manual: Trial, 614 (ABA 1999);

"Bad Acts Evidence Under Rule 404(b)," The Litigation Manual: Trial, 718 (ABA 1999);

"The Residual Exceptions To The Hearsay Rule, 16 Litigation, 26 (1989)

"Bad Acts Evidence Under Rule 404(b)," 14 Litigation, 8 (1988)

"An Interview With Judge Randolph (Part I), " 25 LITIGATION, 16 (Winter 1999);
"An Interview With Judge Randolph (Part II)," 25 LITIGATION, 50 (Spring 1999);

"An Interview With Daniel Petrocelli: Reflections On The O.J. Simpson Case," 24 LITIGATION, 1 (Summer 1997);

"An Interview With Steve Shapiro," 23 LITIGATION, 19 (Winter 1997);

"Searching for Collegiality: An Interview With Judge Aspen," 22 LITIGATION, 34 (Winter 1996);

"Economics of Law: An Interview With Judge Posner," 22 LITIGATION, 23 (Fall 1995);

"An Interview With Dan Webb," 20 LITIGATION, 13 (Winter 1994);

"An Interview With Judge Hubert L. Will," 20 LITIGATION, 26 (Fall 1993);

"Federal Hearsay and its Exceptions," 19 LITIGATION, 17 (Summer 1993);

"Rule 11 Now," 17 LITIGATION, 10 (Spring 1991);

"Pleading Under The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," Federal Civil Practice, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1989);

"The Residual Exceptions To The Hearsay Rule, 16 LITIGATION, 26 (Fall 1989);

"Bad Acts Evidence Under Rule 404(b)," 14 LITIGATION, 8 (Spring 1988);

"Pleading Under The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," Federal Civil Practice, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1987);

"Civil Rico After Sedima v. Imrex," 12 LITIGATION, 24 (Spring 1986);

"Evidence: A Review of the 1982-1983 Term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: "Toward A More Progressive and Flexible Approach to the Federal Rules of Evidence," 60 Chicago-Kent Law Review, 587 (1984);

"Evidence: A Review of the 1979-1980 Term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Developments in Character Evidence, Cross-Examination Rules and Prior Consistent Statements," 56 Chicago-Kent Law Review, 279 (1984);

"Making the Decision to Sue," Chamber of Commerce of the United States (1979);

"The Exclusionary Rule in Probation and Parole Revocation: Some Observations on Deterrence and the `Imperative of Judicial Integrity'," 52 Chicago-Kent Law Review, 21 (1975);

"Defense Counsel and First Amendment: `A Time to Keep Silence and a Time to Speak'," 6 St. Mary's L. J., 347 (1974);

"Impeachment With Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence: Coming to Grips with the Perjurious Defendant," 62 Northwestern Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1 (1971);

"Impeaching with Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence: Some Reflections on the Palatable Fruit of the Poisonous Tree," 18 DePaul Law Review, 25 (1968);

Comment, "Additur-Procedural Boon or Constitutional Calamity," 17 DePaul Law Review, 175 (1967);

Note, "Vicarious Liability-Abrogation of The Both Ways Rule," 16 DePaul Law Review, 478 (1967)

TEACHING

Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy, Northwestern University School of Law (1998 - present)

Adjunct Professor, Trial Advocacy, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (1975 - 1987)

Adjunct Professor, Constitutional Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (1974)(Summer program)

Faculty Member, NITA/ABA Advocacy Program for Public Service Lawyers, Northwestern University School of Law (2001)

Faculty Member, Summer Undergraduate Mock Trial Institute, Northwestern University School of Law (2001)

Faculty Member, Summer Undergraduate Mock Trial Institute, Northwestern University School of Law (2000)

Faculty Member, Appellate Seminar, Northwestern University School of Law (2000)

LECTURES

Federal Civil Practice, Practicing Before Magistrate Judges (Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (2008);

"Some Thoughts On Civility in Current Civil Practice," Seminar on Tips of the Trade: Federal Civil Practice, Illinois State Bar Association (2008);

Historical Implications of the Chicago 7 Conspiracy Trial (ABA Annual Meeting, August, 2001)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Civil Practice In The Federal Courts (1990)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on RICO, Its Uses And Abuses (1988)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Effective Illinois Motion Practice (1988)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Federal Civil Practice (1987)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Trial Court Motion Practice (1987)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Trial Court Motion Practice (1986)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Effective and Innovative Criminal Defense Practice (1986)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Federal Rules of Evidence (1987)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Prescription for Persuasion in the Civil Jury Trial (1986)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Midwest Civil RICO Program (1985)

Moderator, Lecturer, and Faculty Member, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education seminar on Civil RICO after Sedima v. Imrex (1985)

Lecturer, ABA, Complex Crimes Committee, Attorney Fee Forfeiture (1990)

Lecturer, Federal Trial Skills Seminar for Practicing Attorneys, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1986)

Lecturer, Federal Trial Skills Seminar for Practicing Attorneys, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1985)

Lecturer, Federal Trial Skills Seminar for Practicing Attorneys, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1983)

Guest Speaker, American Medical Association Political Action Committee Convention (1981)

Lecturer, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Criminal Procedure (Summer session, 1975)

Lecturer, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Constitutional Law (Summer session, 1974)

Lecturer, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law: Seminar on Appellate Practice, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (1976)

 BAR AFFILIATIONS

ABA Section of Litigation, Council Member

Federal Bar Association

Seventh Circuit Bar Association