Robert S. Markin

His clients have included several architectural, engineering, contracting and consulting firms, market leaders in the airline, transportation, technology, environmental services, healthcare, education services, and manufacturing industries, several utilities, and major accounting firms. Mr. Markin also provides strategic counseling and advocacy to clients in multiple business sectors.

Business and Regulatory Litigation
Mr. Markin has represented clients in hundreds of litigation matters, including complicated contract and business tort disputes, construction claims, employment disputes, and real estate and land use disputes. He has tried cases in several states, has briefed and argued multiple federal and state court appeals, and has represented clients in dozens of arbitrations and mediations.

Government and Regulatory
Mr. Markin’s wide-ranging regulatory and government affairs practice has involved interactions with legislative, administrative, and regulatory bodies in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois and on the federal level on behalf of a wide array of businesses. In the past several years, Mr. Markin has represented several clients in connection with major administrative investigations by a wide variety of federal, state, and local government agencies.

Procurement and M/W/DBE
Mr. Markin has represented developers, architects, engineers, contractors, consulting firms and other clients in bid preparation, contract negotiations, bid protests, debarment proceedings, and procurement related litigation. He has extensive experience counseling clients on M/W/DBE compliance issues.

Strategic Business Counseling
Mr. Markin is actively involved in Chico and Nunes’ business counseling and advocacy practice. He provides strategic advice to clients on growth strategies, and public and private sector relationship building.

Education Law
Mr. Markin has represented clients in the education law space for decades, including charter schools, charter management organizations, and multiple companies that provide goods and services to school districts and higher education institutions.

Government Service
Beginning in 1995, Mr. Markin served as General Counsel and Chief of Staff for the Chicago Board of Education. As General Counsel, Mr. Markin oversaw all legal affairs of the school system, and as Chief of Staff he acted as the principal liaison between the Board and senior management of the nation’s third largest school system.