Servicemember and Veterans Rights

Brian Clauss is the Executive Director of the Veterans Legal Support Center and Clinic at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago—a pro bono legal clinic that provides assistance to Veterans in VA benefit appeals and other legal matters. The John Marshall Veterans Legal Support Center and Clinic assists hundreds of veterans every year through in-house attorneys, clinical students and a trained pro bono network of over 350 volunteer attorneys. The VLSC also works closely with other law schools in establishing and running their veterans clinics and frequently hosts faculty and students interns from those schools. Brian is a graduate of Lake Forest College and the John Marshall Law School and was a county prosecutor in Chicago, prior to starting an alternative dispute resolution practice. He serves on a number of neutral rosters including: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, American Arbitration Association, National Mediation Board, National Railroad Adjustment Board and numerous local rosters and permanent panels.

Brian is a frequent lecturer at local, national and international continuing legal education events and has written over twenty chapters and articles for publishers such as the American Bar Association, the Bureau of National Affairs, LexisNexis, the Illinois State Bar Association, the National Academy of Arbitrators, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Random House Publishing and other legal publications. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and is the Regional Chair for the Central Midwest Region. He is a Board Member of the Chicago Chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association and a member of the Alumni Board at Lake Forest College.