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Karen K. Hynes

Phone: 312/786-6137
Fax: 312/986-9192
E-mail: kkh@franczek.com

Karen K. Hynes represents school districts with respect to general matters of education law, including special education, employment and personnel matters, student and teacher discipline, student records and confidentiality, and school safety.

 

Ms. Hynes joined Franczek Sullivan, P.C. in October 2002. She received her law degree cum laude from Loyola University of Chicago Law School in May 2002, where she was the Articles Editor of the Children's Legal Rights Journal and was a member of the Juvenile Moot Court Team. She also received a Certificate in Childlaw and honors for her work in Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law and Children and the Law. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Special Education at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1992. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Hynes taught special education at Crete-Monee Middle School and was a Severe-Profound City-Wide Itinerant with the Chicago Public Schools. She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association.