Chaim Kalish

Download PDF

Get in Touch
847-745-6591
ckalish@gutnicki.com
4711 Golf Road, Ste 200, Skokie, IL 60076
Download V-Card

Education

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., cum laude (2025)

  • Touro College, B.A., magna cum laude (2020)

Admissions

  • Illinois

Court Admissions

  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Honors & Awards

  • Conviser Scholar (Full Tuition Merit-Based Scholarship), Chicago-Kent College of Law

  • CALI Excellence for the Future Awards:

    • Legal Writing III

    • Administrative Law

    • Criminal Procedure: Investigative Process

Speaking Engagements

  • “Trusting AI to Accelerate Your Review: Defensibility in Predictive Coding Explained,” Everlaw Summit, San Francisco, California (November 3, 2022)

Chaim Kalish is an associate in Gutnicki LLP’s Litigation and Compliance practice groups and focuses his practice on complex commercial disputes and healthcare regulatory compliance matters. He is deeply committed to delivering pragmatic counsel and cost-effective solutions, carefully tailored to the specific requirements of each client and matter.

Chaim earned his J.D. cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law on a full merit scholarship and earned CALI Excellence Awards for the highest grade in Administrative Law, Criminal Procedure: Investigative Process, and Legal Writing III (covers non-litigation oriented transactional issues and documents). Prior to and throughout law school, Chaim held full-time roles with the Gutnicki Litigation practice group, first as a paralegal and later as a law clerk. His work supporting the litigation group provided him with substantial experience in matters ranging from eight-figure contract disputes to six-figure Medicare overpayment determinations.

An avid technologist, Chaim has significantly contributed to the implementation of computer-assisted eDiscovery processes and efficiency-gaining workflow optimizations. He has extensive experience in implementing efficient and defensible discovery processes, ranging from cases involving dozens of pages to millions. Chaim has presented at an industry conference on optimizing document review using artificial intelligence and has conducted multiple attorney training sessions on advanced eDiscovery workflows.

Chaim lives in Chicago with his wife and two children and remains active in Kollel Tiferes Yisroel, where he studied Talmudic law prior to his legal career.