About
Leahu Law Group, LLC was founded by Sorin A. Leahu. Prior to starting the firm, Leahu worked at two nationally-recognized law firms representing individuals, businesses, and nonprofits across the country. His practice concentrated on commercial litigation, land use and zoning, and civil rights litigation. In addition, he has litigated cases before federal courts in the areas of free speech, the establishment clause, the free exercise clause, and various election law matters. On the business side, Leahu has been a regular advisor to religious organizations, nonprofits, and small to mid-sized corporations on a variety of corporate matters and legal compliance issues, with a particular emphasis on Chicago’s growing Romanian community.
Leahu served as the Chairman of the Chicago Bar Association Civil Rights and Constitutional Law Committee from 2017-2018 and the Vice Chairman from 2016-2017. Leahu received his Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), John Marshall Law School in 2014, where he graduated third in his class and was awarded the Order of John Marshall—a local Order of the Coif to recognize excellence in scholarship. While in law school, he was a member of The John Marshall Law Review, a Quarterfinalist in the Herzog Moot Court Competition, and also worked with both federal and state judges, as well as with the office of the Illinois Attorney General.
Leahu has also served as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Policy in its publication of the 2013 Federalist Society Student Symposium, and has presented and written on a variety of legal topics, including: “Preserving Free Speech in Traditional Public Forums: The Fight for Free Speech in Millennium Park” at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education–Not-for-Profit Corporations (2017), Chapter 1—Organizing an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation (with Michael P. Mosher); and “Combatting Religious Discrimination Today- Roundtable Discussion on RLUIPA and Construction of Places of Worship” at the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit. Leahu received his Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics, summa cum laude, from North Park University, Chicago, in May 2010.
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