Matthew H. Hector - Naperville, IL

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 2007
    L.L.M.
    Honors: With Honors
    Major: IT & Privacy Law
    Law Review: John Marshall Law School of Law Review, 2005 - 2007
  • The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Honors: Dean's List
    Law Review: JMLS Law Review, Staff Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1998
    B.A.
    Honors: With Honors
    Major: English
    Major: German

Current Employment Position(s)

• Attorney

Languages

• German

• English

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, The Twenty-Seventh Annual John Marshall International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, The John Marshall Law School, October 28, 2010
  
• Instructor, Real Estate Law Division, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Residential Foreclosure Defense, Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers' Section, September 14, 2010
  
• The Patriot Debates Webcast, The National Strategy Forum and the Carthage Group, Pritzker Military Library, October 19, 2005

Representative Cases

• Pantoja v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC., (Case No.15-1567, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit)

Published Works

Articles

• iMob, The Escapist Magazine
  
• For The Children! A Critique of the Illinois Safe Game Act, The Escapist Magazine
  
• The Twenty-Sixth Annual John Marshall International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology And Privacy Law October 18-20, 2007: Bench Memorandum, Reis, Sorkin, Kelali, Diehl, Encinas, Hector, Spada, Tseng, Venkat (Contributing Author), 25 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 305, Spring, 2008
  
• Kevin Mitnick Knows Your Greatest Weakness, American Bar Association Section of Technology for the Litigator, Gavels and Gears Winter, 2007
  
• The Twenty-Fifth Annual John Marshall International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology And Privacy Law October 26-28, 2006: Bench Memorandum, Sorkin, Benitez-Morgan, Carter, Greubel, Hector, Keaty, Rodriguez (Contributing Author), 24 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 673, Summer, 2006
  
• Contracts – A Brief Overview, A Business & Legal Primer for Game Development, G. Boyd, B. Green, et. al. (Contributing Author), Charles River Media; 1 edition, ISBN 1584504927, November 30, 2006
• Do We Really Have No Place to Hide?, 24 John Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 35, Fall, 2005
• Privacy to Be Patched In Later - An Examination of the Decline of Privacy Rights, 36 J. MARSHALL L. REV. 985, Summer, 2003
• Consumer Defense, A Tactical Guide to Foreclosure, Bankruptcy and Creditor Harassment, 2011

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 2004
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2010

Fraternities and Sororities

• Phi Alpha Delta