Sue Payne

From 1985 to 1999, Sue worked at the Chicago firm of Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli & Boyd, where she became a partner in 1991. Her practice focused on employment counseling and litigation. For the last five years, she has served as Vice President and Corporate Counsel of Information Resources, Inc. (“IRI”), a market research company. At IRI, in addition to functioning as IRI’s in-house employment counsel, Sue was responsible for drafting and negotiating a wide variety of contracts.

Last year, Sue worked part-time as a Writing Resource Advisor at John Marshall Law School. She tutored first-year students and LLM candidates and taught a workshop on persuasive writing. Additionally, Sue has served as Director of the Diagnostic Writing Workshop for first-year law students at Loyola University School of Law.

Sue is also a published poet. In the summer, she leads poetry workshops for kids at summer camps all over the country. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Frost Place, a center for poetry and the arts, located in Franconia, New Hampshire.