Baker et al v. Ghidotti et al

Filing 287

MOTION by Plaintiff Kenneth Baker for judgment of appellate and post-trial attorneys' fees (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Exhibit D, # 5 Exhibit E, # 6 Exhibit F)(Dymkar, Irene)

Download PDF
DECLARATION OF SHAMOYITA M. DASGUPTA Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I, SHAMOYITA M. DASGUPTA, declare as follows: 1. I am an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois. I have been an attorney since November 2015, and am admitted to practice in Illinois and before the Northern District of Illinois. 2. I graduated from the University of Texas in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. I graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2015. 3. While attending law school, I clerked in the Office of the Honorable Paul P. Biebel Jr., Condon & Cook, LLC, and the Hamilton Law Office, LLC. In addition, from 2014 to 2015, I was licensed under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 711 to represent clients of the Office of the Cook County Public Defender in court under the supervision of a licensed attorney. With my 711 license, I represented low-income defendants in criminal cases who were unable to afford a private criminal defense attorney. On numerous occasions, I was able to obtain favorable dispositions for the clients I was representing. From 20142015, I was a student member of the Life After Innocence Clinic, where I worked with the wrongfully convicted after they had been released from incarceration to help provide them with legal and social services. From 2014-2015, I also worked with Dean David Yellen in his appointment as Special Master to review remaining claims of police misconduct by former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge. 4. When I graduated from law school in 2015, I began working for the Law Office of Tony Thedford, P.C., where I worked for approximately six months, and the Law Offices of Irene K. Dymkar, where I am currently working full-time, as an attorney. 5. While at the Law Office of Tony Thedford, P.C., I worked extensively in the fields of criminal defense and federal civil rights litigation. I have worked on a number of criminal cases both in the Northern District of Illinois and in Cook County. As part of my work in the criminal defense arena, I drafted numerous motions and briefs. I appeared in and worked on two criminal cases pending in the Northern District of Illinois and 10-20 criminal cases pending in Cook County. As an attorney with the Law Office of Tony Thedford, P.C., I worked on four federal civil rights cases in the Northern District of Illinois, and as part of this work, I drafted numerous responses to and requests for written discovery. 6. At the Law Offices of Irene K. Dymkar, I have worked extensively in the field of federal civil rights litigation. I have worked on a number of civil rights cases in the Northern District of Illinois and in Cook County. As part of my work in the civil arena with this office, I have helped draft complaints, motions, briefs, and responses to and requests for written discovery documents. To date, I have worked on eighteen federal civil rights cases pending in the Northern District of Illinois and one civil rights case in state court, which involves a police shooting death. I currently have appearances filed in nine federal civil rights cases pending before the Northern District of Illinois. 7. My billing rate is $230.00 per hour. I believe this rate to be commensurate with other attorneys in Chicago who have my level of skill and experience. 8. The attached billing records fairly and accurately state the time that I spent working on this case, and they are also reasonable in terms of the time I spent on each task. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing declaration is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Dated: August 15, 2017 /s/ Shamoyita M. DasGupta Law Offices of Irene K. Dymkar 53 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 733 Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 345-0123 Shamoyita M. DasGupta

Disclaimer: Justia Dockets & Filings provides public litigation records from the federal appellate and district courts. These filings and docket sheets should not be considered findings of fact or liability, nor do they necessarily reflect the view of Justia.


Why Is My Information Online?