The public is invited to the next Community Forum of the Naperville Township Democratic Organization to be held at 7:30 PM on Thursday, September 26^th at the City of Naperville Municipal Center, 400 S. Eagle Street, in Meeting Rooms B & C on the lower level.

We will hear from Congressman Bill Foster, followed by a presentation from Naperville attorney Shawn Collins.

Shawn is a lawyer for the people against the corporations and governments that often mistreat them.

Shawn Collins and his ten member law firm has fought for over twenty years for justice and a “day in court” for those who badly need a lawyer, but often can’t afford one.

For example, Shawn has:

* successfully argued to the Illinois Supreme Court for the rights of citizens to obtain information from their government;
* won the dismissal of serious criminal charges which had been brought against DuPage County residents for protesting the Iraq War on a public road;
* sued to enforce the civil rights of the developmentally disabled, when the State of Illinois refused to fund their medical care; and
* on behalf of over 20,000 citizens, won federal court orders mandating that corporate polluters clean up the water supplies and neighborhoods that they had contaminated.

For his legal work, Shawn has been recognized as a “Top 100 Trial Lawyer” since 2008 by the American Trial Lawyers Association, in addition to receiving many other awards and recognitions from his peers.