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Download vCard| Mary Rowland concentrates her practice in the areas of civil litigation and criminal defense. She has litigated employment discrimination cases for employees and employers, and has challenged strip-search policies and housing discrimination in class actions. |
| Experience: Ms. Rowland was a staff attorney with the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois, where she tried several federal criminal jury trials and argued many cases before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Rowland has extensive experience in defending federal criminal cases, including narcotics conspiracies, weapons violations, bank robberies, and fraud. She has litigated several multi-count, multi-defendant criminal appeals involving application of the Sentencing Guidelines, violations of the Fourth Amendment, the ex post facto application of the federal supervised release statute and various jury instruction issues. Ms. Rowland has also successfully argued for many downward departures under the United States Sentencing Guidelines. |
| Honors, Education, and Activities: Ms. Rowland is a former law clerk for Judge Julian A. Cook, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, during which Judge Cook presided over a case involving one of the nation's largest airline disasters. Ms. Rowland has degrees from the University of Chicago, J.D., 1988 and University of Michigan, B.A., 1984. She is admitted to practice in Illinois,1989; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1990 (Including Trial Bar, 1991); and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1992. Ms. Rowland has lectured on matters of criminal law at a variety of conferences around the country and has published articles in Federal Criminal Practice (IICLE) and Practice Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. She has also lectured at conferences sponsored by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals on appellate brief writing. Ms. Rowland is a member of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association. |
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