Not even the erotic romance trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed offers a more compelling, titillating and captivating read, as the legal profession's most enduring, literary masterpiece: The Bluebook. In an increasingly diverse and demanding legal profession, The Bluebook continues to provide the systematic method by which members of the legal profession communicate essential information about the multitude of sources and authorities they rely upon. Come get intimately reacquainted with the definitive guide for legal citation in the United States.
Nicholas Kourvetaris is an attorney at the law firm of O’Hagan Meyer. As a litigator with two decades of experience, Nicholas has served as a trusted legal advisor to a wide range of clients in multiple industries, including business clients, school districts, forest preserve districts, zoological societies, medical centers, homeowners and construction-related entities. He has extensive litigation experience in defense of matters throughout Illinois involving catastrophic bodily injuries and death, premises liability, food poisoning, bed bugs, wage garnishment, contract disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, dram shop, property damage, construction litigation, and housing, gender and age discrimination.
To date, Nicholas has tried 34 jury trials to verdict in Cook, McHenry and Will counties, including achieving 17 outright defense verdicts (one of which a Cook County jury returned in three minutes after a week-long trial).
Nicholas also teaches legal research & writing and torts at Loyola University Chicago’s Institute for Paralegal Studies and was a student-selected Professor of the Year in 2016.
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