Jeff Berkowitz, President
JB Consulting Group, Inc.
70 W. Madison, Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60602
JBCG@aol.com
By day: Recruits lawyers for corporate law departments and law firms; Outplaces, mentors and coaches attorneys regarding their job searches and steps to improve their careers.
By night and day: For more than a decade, has been interviewing politicians on television (weekly) and radio; appearing as a guest to discuss politics and public policy issues on television and radio; questioning at press conferences and assessing, analyzing and discussing public policy and political issues. For more than six years, has been blogging about public policy, politics, economics and legal issues at the national, Illinois, Cook County and City of Chicago level. Interested in continuing to do similar work but from a more substantial platform.
Hosted and independently produced six hundred weekly, mostly political interview, TV shows during the last twelve years. Guests included U. S. Presidential candidate and Gov. Bill Richardson; candidates and office-holders for U. S. Senate, e.g., Obama, McCain, Durbin, Simon, Moseley-Braun, Ryan, Hull, Chico, Rauschenberger, Pappas, McKenna, Keyes, Durkin, Oberweis and Cox; Illinois members of the House of Representatives.
Appeared on Fox News Channel's O'Reilly and Hannity and Colmes
Appeared in Fall, 2008 on the New York Times website as the subject of a five minute video by the New York Times about Barack Obama and Berkowitz's shows with Obama
Appeared as a guest dealing with the intersection of political, economics, legal, financial and other issues dozens of times on Chicago commercial and public radio.
Attended and asked questions at various Presidential candidate press conferences, including those held by Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and John Edwards; dozens of U. S. Senate, House of Representative and IL gubernatorial candidate and office-holder press conferences.
Conducted approximately five hours of video interviews with Barack Obama, including six one half hour one-on-one TV interview shows.
Contributing Correspondent for the Illinois Channel, 2006 to Present.
Expertise includes politics, economics, law, business, national, state and local public policy issues
Practiced law in Chicago, IL for fifteen years in the areas of business litigation, antitrust and financial regulation.
Taught economics, business administration, antitrust and public policy courses at the university level, including at Ohio State and Indiana Universities.
Holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics from UCLA and the University of Chicago.
Holds a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School; member of Law Review.
