H. Candace Gorman

H. Candace Gorman

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H. Candace Gorman is the principal in the law firm of H. Candace Gorman. The firm concentrates in Civil Rights and employment litigation. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BA in Philosophy in 1976 and later attended law school, graduating from John Marshall Law School in January 1983. Attorney Gorman is a member in good standing of the bar of the State of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Attorney Gorman served on the Board of Directors and as president of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois; the Board of Directors for the Federal Bar Associationin the Northern District of Illinois; the Merit Selection Panel for United States Magistrates; the Task Force Planning Committee for the Illinois Supreme Court’s Study of Gender Bias in the Courtroom; and was also the legislative chair and commissioner on the Chicago Commission on Women. Attorney Gorman is a member of the
National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) where she sat on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Division of that organization from approximately 1992-99. She is also a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the American Constitution Society and the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.

The firm handles both individual and class action lawsuits for Plaintiffs under the various civil rights statutes, anti-discrimination laws and under ERISA. In 2004, Attorney Gorman argued and won a unanimous decision before the United States Supreme Court in Jones vs. R.R. Donnelley, 541 U.S. 369 (2004) in a difficult matter regarding the Statute of Limitations for § 1981 cases. In that landmark decision the Supreme Court changed the Statute of Limitations in § 1981 cases to four years (the federal default statute of limitations (28 USC § 1658) across the country.
Attorney Gorman has lectured widely on the subject of civil rights and employment litigation.


Blog Entries by H. Candace Gorman

Judge Decides Guantanamo Prisoner's Health Problems Are His Own Fault

Posted April 17, 2008 | 11:25 PM (EST)


This week Judge John B. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled once again that Guantanamo prisoner Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi was not entitled to any medical care beyond what the government decides he needs, assuming that it is any at all, and that neither...

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Shhhh, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi's Torture is "Secret"

9 Comments | Posted October 17, 2007 | 03:34 PM (EST)


During the week of September 24th I went to visit my client Mr. Al-Ghizzawi at Guantanamo again. It is clear to me that our visits are nearing the end... Mr. Al-Ghizzawi won't be with the living much longer. Mr. Al-Ghizzawi knows his days are limited, not only can he barely...

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Another Gitmo Stooge Bites the Dust

13 Comments | Posted October 8, 2007 | 09:46 PM (EST)


I am going to miss Col. Moe he was like the gift that kept on giving... Moe was in charge of the military prosecutions for the Guantanamo kangaroo tribunals... he also saw himself as the military's spin master for Guantanamo .... But trouble started to brew in the...

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And Then There is the Underwear Story

Posted September 16, 2007 | 03:51 PM (EST)


When people ask me about Guantanamo I try to describe the surreal experience of having a Starbucks a few short miles from a soviet style gulag. I talk about my client Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, who has never been charged with anything and never will be, dying of hepatitis B and not...

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Garbage Guantánamo-Style

Posted July 31, 2007 | 04:37 PM (EST)


I was delighted last month when I read that one of the lawyers in the trenches of the Combat Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) process decided to come forward and expose that severely flawed and brazenly manipulated process. Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham is the latest hero to blow the whistle on...

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Portrait Of A Gitmo Propagandist

Posted June 26, 2007 | 04:04 PM (EST)


Colonel Moe is at it again. Perhaps you remember when Moe wanted Major Mori, the military attorney that was appointed to represent the Guantánamo detainee from Australia, brought up on charges for doing too good of a job for his client? Aside from the fact that Moe apparently prefers...

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Death at Guantanamo (Again)

Posted May 31, 2007 | 06:22 PM (EST)


Today is another in a long string of very sad days. I feel certain that the fear I felt when I saw the news of today' death is shared by all of the families of the detainees, as well as by the attorneys representing these men. All of us involved...

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Is There a Larry Lurking in the Bushies?

Posted May 22, 2007 | 05:35 PM (EST)


At the beginning of the year Cully Stimson gleefully announced on a government radio station the first attack against the Guantánamo attorneys that was in the works. Attorney Cully (who was the assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs until he began his unfounded attack on the lawyers)...

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Hell is Hot

Posted May 12, 2007 | 05:14 PM (EST)


The heat, like everything else at Guantanamo, is oppressive. As I was waiting to see Mr. Al-Ghizzawi at camp six I was thinking about the men who were having "rec" time at that moment. The detainees at Camp 6 get two hours outside, but there is no shade in the...

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The Attorney-Client Relationship

Posted May 6, 2007 | 05:31 PM (EST)


Oh my. Seems one of the big news stories Saturday morning is the fact that some of our Guantánamo clients get frustrated at the lack of progress as we try to get them out of that hell hole. Can you blame them? Of course not. These men have sat at...

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Causing Unrest at Guantánamo

Posted April 27, 2007 | 05:18 PM (EST)


OK, a show of hands please, how many of you thought about me when you saw the article about how the military wants to keep the lawyers out of Guantánamo? It seems the military thinks that we attorneys are acting as a conduit for the media! (If only it...

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One Pill Fits All

Posted April 16, 2007 | 02:51 PM (EST)



I received a letter this week from Mr. Al-Ghizzawi (my client at Guantánamo). If you have not been keeping up, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi is a prisoner at the base who is dying of hepatitis B, and he is not being treated. Seems our government does not think Mr. Al-Ghizzawi...

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Filing Court Papers, Guantanamo Style

Posted April 12, 2007 | 04:21 PM (EST)


I have been an attorney for almost twenty-five years. I have filed thousands of documents in the various courts, many have been short routine documents others complex and lengthy, but the procedures have been pretty much the same no matter which court.... And then came the Guantanamo cases. In keeping...

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"I Promise Not To Talk about the Torture"

Posted March 31, 2007 | 07:14 PM (EST)



We now know that the worst of the worst of the worst was sentenced to nine months in prison for his "terrorists' acts". David Hicks, the so-called "Australian Taliban," has been held at Guantánamo for more than five years and since the military previously announced that none of...

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Justice Guantánamo Style

Posted March 27, 2007 | 05:41 PM (EST)


David Hicks, the Australian man that has been held in Guantánamo for five years, (the last year or so in solitary confinement) agreed to plead guilty yesterday. There are a few things you should know about his plea. First, and most importantly, Hicks is pleading guilty to a crime...

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Third Rate Lawyer

Posted March 24, 2007 | 12:53 PM (EST)



So yesterday we learned that the new secretary of defense wanted to close Guantánamo, but Cheney and his side kick Gonzales said "no." To anyone paying attention it is no surprise they do not want Guantánamo closed. I mean, look at Gonzales' best terrorist cases that were tried...

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Guantanamo Myth No. 2: Caught on the Battlefield

Posted March 21, 2007 | 04:13 PM (EST)


I only learned of the phrase "caveat auditor" this past week; it was used in the context of discussing the concept of irony in a different administration. Sadly there is nothing ironic (yet?) about our current administration, everything is just too predictable. So although my first thought was that...

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Return to the Battlefield: The Number One Guantánamo Myth

Posted March 13, 2007 | 05:29 PM (EST)


Why bother to do fact checking when it is so much easier to just write down whatever you are told? Every time I read or hear about the ever-changing number of Guantánamo prisoners that have "returned to the battlefield" I try to research this issue yet again. The Pentagon,...

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Cully's Mentor MOE and His Six Point Plan

Posted March 5, 2007 | 02:28 PM (EST)


Remember Cully Stimson? Cully was the assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs until he began his attack on the lawyers who have volunteered to represent the Guantánamo detainees without charge. Cully concocted a desperate plan of exerting financial pressure against the Guantánamo lawyers by suggesting that the...

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Camp 6: The Worst of the Worst

Posted February 28, 2007 | 05:35 PM (EST)


My notes were just cleared from my latest visit with Mr. Al-Ghizzawi at the Guantánamo gulag. Since anyone who wanted to read my notes in the government and the military has already read what should be my attorney/client privileged communications, I figure what the hell; I might as well share...

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