EDUCATION:
B.A. in History, Colby College, 2016
J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT 2024
BAR ADMISSIONS:
State of Illinois
United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Andrew Coronado
Andrew N. Coronado joined Allison, Slutsky & Kennedy in December 2023 as a law clerk, becoming an Associate in November 2024. Andrew graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2024 with school-issued certificates in Labor and Employment Law, as well as Workplace Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.* Before joining the firm, Andrew was a clerk at the Illinois Education Association, worked at his law school’s Plaintiff’s Employment Law Clinic, and spent a summer as the Illinois Attorney General’s Workplace Rights Bureau’s law clerk. In school, he studied a wide array of workplace law: employment discrimination, wage and hour, public and private sector labor, Railway Labor Act, arbitration and mediation, and workers’ compensation. Andrew also spent two years cite-checking the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal.
Prior to law school, Andrew was a professional brewer at a small, local brewery in Portland, Maine, where he led an unsuccessful organizing drive with Teamsters Local 340 before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Captive audience meetings and his exposure to the National Labor Relations Board’s unfair labor practice process as a former employee motivated Andrew to become a labor lawyer.
Andrew is from rural Northern New York State, and graduated from Colby College in Maine in 2016. He became a member of UFCW Local One while working grocery on college breaks, and later worked under a contract bargained by MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, the largest union in Maine. Andrew is proud to remain a (highly sporadic) stagehand permit worker with Maine’s IATSE Local 114.
* The Supreme Court of Illinois does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and the certificates are not a requirement to practice law in Illinois.