Kevin Connor

Senior Attorney


Kevin Connor is an associate in Dykema's Business Litigation and Privacy and Data Security groups. Kevin's litigation practice includes representing clients in all phases of business and commercial litigation, including premises liability defense, class action defense, commercial contract disputes, commercial foreclosures, torts, and government compliance matters. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Kevin’s privacy and data security practice includes advising domestic and international clients on issues of breach response, employee training, risk assessment, policies and procedures, corporate compliance projects and revising services agreements to include adequate privacy and data security protections.

Kevin maintains a robust pro bono practice. He has represented clients in asylum cases, criminal appeals, civil rights cases, guardianship cases, records expungement petitions, and represents the elderly and disadvantaged in contract disputes. Prior to rejoining Dykema, Kevin worked at a nonprofit on Chicago’s West Side, providing counseling and legal services to young people from one of Chicago’s most distressed neighborhoods. He is also a member of the Diversity Awareness Committee in Dykema’s Chicago office. 

While in law school, Kevin served as a Lefkow Fellow at the Legal Assistance Foundation in Chicago and externed at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He also worked at the MacArthur Justice Center on class-action civil rights cases for prisoners, and spent his third year of law school in Northwestern’s Juvenile Justice Clinic, where he was a criminal justice advocate for young people.

    • Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2015
    • Boston College, B.A., cum laude, 2007
  • Bar Admissions

    • Illinois, 2015
    • Indiana, 2020
  • Court Admissions

    • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
    • Named to Best Lawyers' "Ones to Watch" list for Commercial Litigation, 2024

    • IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US)

    • Spanish

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