 Jason
R. Bent
Direct: (312) 546-6139
Fax: (888) 664-8172
Email: jbent@smithandbent.com
Jason Bent's practice includes complex commercial and employment litigation
in federal and state courts. His experience has included seeking and defending
temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions. He also has
experience in civil appeals at both the federal and state level.
Mr. Bent's employment litigation experience includes defending an employer
against a novel class action brought by the United States EEOC alleging
a "pattern or practice" of sexual harassment in the workplace.
Mr. Bent has represented a number of employers against discrimination
claims before the EEOC and the Illinois Department of Human Rights. Mr.
Bent has also represented an employer in connection with a Department
of Labor audit of the employer's wage and overtime payment practices under
the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Prior to forming Smith & Bent, Mr. Bent was an associate at Foley & Lardner,
LLP. Before entering private practice, Mr. Bent was a law clerk to the
Hon. Judge Cornelia Kennedy in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit, and for the Hon. Judge Joan B. Gottschall in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mr. Bent received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan
Law School (2000), where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also
served as Notes Editor of the Michigan Law Review. Mr. Bent earned his
B.A. in Economics (1997) from Grinnell College.
Mr. Bent is the author of Systemic Harassment, working paper available
for download at SSRN Abstract No. 1357559; What the Lilly Ledbetter Act
Doesn’t Do: “Discrete Acts” and the Future of Pattern
or Practice Litigation, 33 Rutgers Law Record __ (forthcoming 2009); and
Sentencing Equality for Deportable Aliens, 98 Michigan Law Review 1320
(2000), among other publications.
Mr. Bent has recently been appointed
to serve on the Editorial Board of The Labor Lawyer,
a journal published by the American Bar Association. Mr. Bent is admitted
to practice in the
states of Illinois and Wisconsin, and before the Northern
District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the U.S.
Courts of Appeals
for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits.
Publications by Jason R. Bent
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