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3. o . Describe the general nature of your legal experience dividing it into periods’with: cat® if its nature has chang. a} b) c) da) Assembly. If you practice law;‘ describe your typical clients, or, former clients, and mention the areas, if any, in which you have specialized. Following my clerkship, I commenced practicing law with the firm headed up by Arthur J. Goldberg, the general counsel for the CIO, and many of its unions. My early years of practice had a heavy emphasis on labor law, and I represented many national and local unions in the courts, before the National Labor Rela- tions Board and in collective bargaining. Commencing about 1956, I began to do more commercial and business work, representing real estate developers, small corporations, movie distributors, hotels and a large national magazine. Throughout both segments of my practice, I engaged in extensive appellate work in the state and federal courts. Upon my election to Congress in 1968, I withdrew from the practice of law until 1973, when I resumed the practice of law for the two years I was out of Congress. During this latter period, I was involved in commercial litiga- tion and representation, representing banks, corporations, real estate firms and doing appellate work for a wide variety of clients and other lawyers. Describe any work you have done in the human rights area, public interest law area, environmental, or consumer law area. I was the attorney for the West Side Organization, an early community-civil rights organization, engaged in seeking to break down prejudice in employment, housing and schools. I did similar work for The Woodlawn Organization, the Chicago Council on Religion and Race, the Chicago Urban League, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Illinois Consumer Federation (which I helped form), and the Hyde Park Cooperative Society (on whose Board I served). In the Illinois State Legislature, I was the chief sponsor of a series of consumer credit bills which substantially changed the laws pertaining to wage-garnishments, wage assign~ ments, confessions of judgment and deficiency judgments. I also served on the Advisory Committee of the Uniform Laws Com~ mission on Consumer Credit. I served on the Judicial Advisory Commission of Illinois while a member of the Illinois General Describe any public defender, legal aid, or legal services you may have performed. As one of the attorneys for the Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union, I was involved in appellate work on indigent prisoners' cases. I did similar work for the Chicago Bar Association, and as appointed by the Federal District Court. Describe any prosecutorial functions you may have performed. I have not performed any prosecutorial functions. As Chairman of the Illinois Board of Ethics, and as chairman of several legislative investigating committees, I engaged in fact-finding functions somewhat similar to grand jury proceedings. 77G (7