About Jonathan Clark Green: Alliance Francaise de Chicago

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Alliance Francaise de Chicago's Upcoming Lecture on French Restaurants

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A longtime Chicago lawyer, Jonathan Clark Green is a supervising attorney for the City of Chicago’s Federal Civil Rights Litigation (FCRL) Division. Jonathan Clark Green has studied several languages at schools including the Alliance Francaise de Chicago, and is a dedicated member of the Chicago-Paris Sister Cities Committee..

In addition to offering individual and group courses at all levels, the Alliance Francaise de Chicago hosts a variety of events, including lectures. One upcoming lecture is The Invention of French Restaurants and Food Pairing, led by Rebecca Spang, a history professor and author, and Richard Shepro, an attorney and scholar in economics, law, and food history.

Rebecca Spaing will answer fascinating questions about the history of restaurants, which became a symbol of wealth among the aristocracy of 18th century Paris. Richard Shepro will discuss his research on food and wine pairing, which he published for the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. Attendees will learn about the four main pairing methods and explore the history of modern ideas about pairing food and wine.

About Jonathan Clark Green

An experienced Chicago attorney, Jonathan Clark Green has a juris doctor from the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Since he earned his degree, Jonathan Clark Green has returned many times to the academic arena to complete studies of several languages. During this time, he secured a master of laws in international and comparative law from the Georgetown University.

He has practiced with multiple Chicago law firms and worked extensively in the public sphere. He first served with the Office of the Illinois Attorney General’s Department of Government Representation, and he currently holds position with the Federal Civil Rights Litigation (FCRL) Division of the City of Chicago’s Department of Law.

Since he became a senior counsel and supervising attorney with the FCRL, Green has tried fourteen jury trials to verdict for the City in federal and state courts. He is also a certified arbitrator who has participated in numerous multiparty mediations and settlement conferences and negotiated and drafted settlement agreements in class action lawsuits, among other cases.