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Mark Brittingham
Clinical Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
637 - Advanced Trial Advocacy
586 - Business Planning
528 - Corporations
536 - Evidence
630 - Intellectual Property
517A - Introduction to Commercial Law
553 - Labor Law
580 - Legal Profession
501A & B - Professionalism and the Law
555 - Remedies
583 - Sports Law
Mark Brittingham joined the Law School faculty in 2007 as
Visiting Assistant Professor. A 1982 graduate of the SIU School of Law, he comes
to the law school from SIU’s Office of the General Counsel where he spent five
years as the University's chief labor lawyer and, in 2004, its Interim General
Counsel.
Prior to joining the University, Professor Brittingham spent twenty years in
private practice in St. Louis. His private practice focused on business,
employment, and environmental litigation, and on general business counseling. He
has handled to conclusion antitrust, securities fraud, contract, employment and
education discrimination, NEPA, and shareholder lawsuits. He also has negotiated
collective bargaining agreements and handled many labor grievances and unfair
labor practice charges, in both the public and private sectors. Finally,
Professor Brittingham has substantial experience with the law of public
entities. In addition to representing public school districts and fire
protection districts, he served as vice-president and director of the St. Louis
Development Corporation; director and chairman of the Land Clearance for
Redevelopment Authority; and director of the Planned Industrial Expansion
Authority—the principal public redevelopment
agencies of the City of St. Louis. During his terms of service, these agencies
constructed the Edward D. Jones Dome, the new Kiel Auditorium (now the Scott
Trade Center), and St. Louis Marketplace, Missouri’s first tax increment
financing project. Professor Brittingham also served two terms as alderman of
Eureka, Missouri. He continues to serve on the Advisory Committee to the
Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board and on the Board of Directors of the
Shawnee Healthcare System, the largest provider of healthcare to the indigent in
southern Illinois.
Professor Brittingham's wife
Kathleen Pine, also a 1982 graduate of the School of Law, is a long-time member
of the St. Louis law firm Sandberg, Phoenix and von Gontard, where she
represents doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers in professional
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