Biographical Information on Mark Filip

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Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 | 6:38 a.m.

NAME - Mark R. Filip

AGE-BIRTH YEAR-LOCATION - 41; 1966; Chicago, Illinois.

EXPERIENCE - U.S. district judge, Northern District of Illinois, 2004-present; lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, 2000-present; partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, 1999-04; adjunct professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 1998-1999; assistant U.S. attorney, Criminal Division Northern District of Illinois, 1995-99; associate, Kirkland & Ellis, 1994-95; clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 1993-94; clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams, 1992-93.

EDUCATION - B.A. in economics and history, University of Illinois, 1988; B.A. in jurisprudence, University of Oxford Christ Church College, 1990; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1992.