ANGIE M. COWAN

B.A., With Honors, Quinnipiac University 2001

J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law 2005

Admitted to Practice: State of Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Angie M. Cowan has been associated with Allison, Slutsky & Kennedy, P.C. since her law school graduation in 2005, practicing union-side labor law, employee benefits law, employment law and general litigation.  At Chicago-Kent College of Law, Ms. Cowan was a student editor of the Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal, President of the Labor & Employment Law Society, Street-Law organizer for the National Lawyer’s Guild, and research assistant to Professor Martin H. Malin.  While in law school, Ms. Cowan also participated in the AFL-CIO’s Law Student Union Summer Program, in which she worked as a legal intern for the United Steelworkers of America.  During her last year of law school, Ms. Cowan also received a Peggy Browning Fellowship and worked with the Chicago Newspaper Guild, CWA.

Ms. Cowan has dedicated her work to union advocacy and representation since 1998.  Prior to law school, Ms. Cowan worked for Local 35 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HEREIU).  Ms. Cowan also worked as an organizer for the Greater New Haven Central Labor Council.  While an undergraduate, Ms. Cowan founded the Student-Labor Action Coalition at her school in support of HERE Local 217’s contract campaign. 

Ms. Cowan devotes a substantial part of her practice to the representation of unions in both the private and public sectors. Ms. Cowan has represented unions in discharge and contract interpretation cases in arbitration. Ms. Cowan regularly represents Taft-Hartley employee benefit funds on collection matters in federal court.

Ms. Cowan serves on the Board of Directors for the Labor and Employment Relations Association’s Chicago chapter, she is also a member of the ABA’s Section of Labor & Employment Law and the Chicago Bar Association.