Mark E. King graduated with honors from Northwestern University in 1980 and with high honors from ITT/Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1985, where he was a member of the board of editors of the Law Review, won the ITT/Chicago-Kent College of Law School Moot Court competition, won the 1984 Corpus Juris Secundum Award for significant legal scholarship, and received the 1984 American Jurisprudence Award for scholastic achievement. He was also the winner of the ABA section of Urban, State and Local government law award for scholastic achievement in the area of Land Use Law and the author of “Federal Preemption of the state Regulation of Nuclear Power: State Law Strikes Back Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corporation,” ITT/Chicago-Kent Law Review (1984). He has serves as counsel in numerous actions in both the state and federal courts and has conducted many appeals in the Illinois and Federal appellate courts. A substantial part of his practice is devoted to major complex litigation, counseling clients in the firm and television industries, arbitration and mediation.
