I often tell people that Food Law involves all sorts of different areas of law. Usually I forget to mention zoning. This article is about zoning. I also tell people that any lawyer can learn any area of law, even tax. This article is not about tax, but it IS about a lawyer successfully negotiating an area of law that is not his specialty. Way to go, Paul Hletko! From the ABA Journal:
Legal Spirits: Attorney Distills His Legal Acumen to Steer Career Shift
Patent attorney Paul Hletko . . .wanted to open his distillery within walking distance of his home to be close to his family. But he faced one significant problem: Evanston is famously dry. The suburb just north of Chicago is where the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was started in 1874 (Hletko named Few for Francis Elizabeth Willard, the former president of the WTCU). Alcohol wasn’t served in restaurants in Evanston until the 1970s, and there are still no bars. But that didn’t faze Hletko, who used his training as an attorney to get Evanston’s laws changed so he could produce alcohol there.
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