John Swain Jr.
Associate at Wiebe Wittmann El-Khatib LLP
About John
John Swain, Jr. is an associate at Wiebe Wittmann El-Khatib LLP, with a practice focused on corporate, commercial, and real estate matters and civil litigation. Swain articled at the firm before joining as an associate, and is called to the bar in British Columbia and Illinois. Swain holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, a Bachelor's degree in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as a Consortium for the Graduate Study in Management Fellow. Before law, Swain served four years as Vice President and General Counsel for a broadcast television production company, spent twelve years as principal managing lawyer at boutique Chicago law firms, worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the City of Chicago's Department of Economic Development, and Chapman and Cutler, and taught as an adjunct lecturer at Purdue University-Calumet.
Education & credentials
- Law school
- Northwestern University, School of Law
- Undergraduate
- University of Notre Dame, Accountancy
- Other degrees
- MBA, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Consortium for the Graduate Study in Management Fellowship)
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