Part-Time Faculty
Brett Zeeb
Biography
Brett Zeeb has worked as an Assistant Appellate Defender in Chicago since 2003. He represents indigent criminal defendants in direct appeals and in appeals from post-conviction petition denials. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, where he represented tenants in public housing eviction cases, homeowners in foreclosure cases, and workers in unemployment compensation matters. Prior to that, he worked as a staff attorney for Gulfcoast Legal Services in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he specialized in representing clients in public benefit matters such as securing Supplemental Security Income, food stamps, Medicaid and unemployment compensation, and also did weekly client intake interviews in local homeless shelters. Immediately after law school, he worked as a law clerk for Southern Legal Counsel in Gainesville, Florida, a small civil rights firm.
| Education: | B.S., in Journalism, University of Florida, 1994 J.D., University of Florida, 1998 |
| Present Position: | Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of State Appellate Defender, Chicago Office |
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| Contact: | 203 North LaSalle, 24th Floor Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 814-6173 brettzeeb@gmail.com |
