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Terry J. Smith
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
Employment
Cornell University
Terry J. Smith is a partner with Smith O'Callaghan & White. He has represented employers in all aspects of labor and employment law for more than 25 years, representing and regularly advising corporate defendants in litigation involving labor and employment matters in federal and state courts, and administrative agencies, throughout the United States. Prior to founding a boutique firm, Mr. Smith was a partner in one of the largest law firms in Chicago.
He has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer for 15 consecutive years (2007-2021), representing the top 5% of all attorneys in the State of Illinois. Mr. Smith...
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Kristin M. Case
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Chicago, IL 60606
Employment
University of Missouri - Columbia
Kristin M. Case is the founding Member of The Case Law Firm, now known as Case + Sedey, LLC. She is admitted to practice law in Illinois as well as Missouri and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Illinois Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Missouri Supreme Court. Ms. Case has extensive experience representing clients during employment negotiations, before administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights, and throughout the litigation process both in state and federal courts.
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Davina DiPaolo
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationEmployment
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and University of Minnesota Law School
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Sharon R. Booker-Brown
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
University of Minnesota Law School
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Martina Sherman
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Employment and Insurance Claims
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Martina Sherman is a shareholder at DeBofsky Law where she represents individuals in ERISA and insurance benefit disputes. Ms. Sherman has experience in employment and Social Security law as well, which enables her to provide clients with a comprehensive approach to benefit problems. Ms. Sherman represents clients at all stages of litigation, from consultation and pre-suit appeal to the trial and appellate levels. She has extensive federal court experience and has argued successfully before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Sherman is a frequent speaker on employee benefits at national conferences of the American Bar Association (ABA), and she is...
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Pasha Vaziri
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business and Personal Injury
The John Marshall Law School
I graduated from the University of Kentucky as a philosophy and political science double-major. I then worked in the financial services department of a Fortune 500 company for two years prior to attending The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. After obtaining my Juris Doctor, I worked as an associate attorney at a general civil litigation firm with a focus on personal injury and insurance law. There I settled countless cases for my clients, both individual and corporate. As a litigator, I obtained favorable outcomes through mediation, arbitration hearings, and bench and jury trials. Building on that experience, in 2014...
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Michael T. Sanderson
Wheaton, IL Employment Law Attorney with 7 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Family, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Michael T. Sanderson joined Mirabella, Kincaid, Frederick & Mirabella, LLC in August of 2021, where he practices in the areas of family law, civil litigation, employment law, personal injury law, including medical malpractice cases, and Veteran’s rights. Prior to joining MKFM, Michael worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, where he defended the agency in claims of employment discrimination and medical malpractice as well as administrative actions involving nursing homes and medical providers/suppliers.
Michael began working in family law while still attending law school through his work with several Chicago-based law firms. He...
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James J. DeSanto
Libertyville, IL Employment Law Attorney with 55 years of experience
Employment, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Insurance Claims
DePaul College of Law and University of Illinois
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Katrina Taraska Simon
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Unique to Ms. Taraska’s chosen career in personal injury law, she was the victim of a propane gas explosion, in which a commercial building collapsed on her, her mother, brother and a close family friend. The explosion left Taraska with extensive second and third degree burns early in her life. She was hospitalized for 3 months, during which she underwent skin grafting of her arms, legs, hands, and chest. Incredibly, a year prior to the explosion, Ms. Taraska’s father and a reconstructive surgeon opened the only downstate burn unit in Peoria where she was successfully treated despite the severity of...
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Ryan F. Stephan
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
Employment and Medical Malpractice
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Ryan Stephan is a founding partner of Stephan Zouras, LLP. Ryan represents people from all walks of life in class and individual civil litigation. Specifically, Ryan has helped thousands of clients recover damages in cases involving unpaid overtime, employment disputes, business litigation, products liability and personal injury. Ryan has successfully tried cases to verdict including obtaining a $9,000,000 verdict on behalf of 200 employees who were misclassified and denied overtime pay.
Ryan has also served as lead or co-lead counsel on numerous complex class and collective action cases involving wage and hour matters and has helped...
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Bruce Lewitas
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Employment, Securities and Stockbroker Fraud
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Bruce Lewitas has litigated financial services disputes for three decades, beginning his career as an Enforcement attorney for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and thereafter serving as both in-house and outside counsel representing both individuals and broker-dealers. Bruce has overseen thousands of matters involving customer disputes, employment matters, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations.
At Lewitas Hyman PC, our core values include putting the client first and providing cost-effective counsel coupled with professional and aggressive advocacy.
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Mark R. McKenna
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationEmployment, Animal, Elder and Workers' Comp
University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL
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D. Daxton White
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
125 S. Wacker Dr. Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60606
Employment, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Collections
Florida State University College of Law
D. Daxton White is an AV rated attorney by Martindale Hubbell, the attorney rating service, indicating the highest rating for legal ability and ethics. He is a member of the Florida and Illinois Bar Associations, as well as the Indian River County Bar Association. He is also a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), an association of securities attorneys who dedicate their practices to the representation of investors defrauded by their financial professional or brokerage firm. Mr. White has also served on the PIABA Legislative Committee which attempts to advance the cause of investors through the use...
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Samantha A. Guttenberg
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 5 years of experience
Employment, Insurance Defense, Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home
DePaul College of Law
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Douglas Darch
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney
Employment
University of North Carolina School of Law
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Alexander Rozman
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Divorce and IP
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Alex Rozman, the Managing Partner of the Rozman Legal Group PC, is an experienced trial attorney who personally has a proven track record of successfully bringing over sixty jury and non-jury trials to verdict. Awarded the prestigious Illinois Bar Foundation Distinguished Award for Excellence, Alex Rozman is a respected litigator and speaker in the Chicago legal community. He graduated with honors with a double major from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a law degree from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Licensed as an attorney in Illinois and New York, Mr. Rozman has been appointed to serve...
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Stanley Eisenstein
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney
Free ConsultationEmployment, Civil Rights and Workers' Comp
University of Illinois - Chicago
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Susan Dawson
Rolling Meadows, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
(847) 253-8800
3701 Algonquin Road
Suite 300
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Employment, Business and Real Estate
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Susan L. Dawson earned her juris doctorate at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2000 with a concentration in corporate/business law and taxation. Licensed in Illinois since 2000, Susan has spent her entire career representing businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs and employees. She has a wide range of experience working with clients on local, national and international levels. Susan delivers a commitment to service which surpasses client's expectations, promptly meeting tight deadlines and quickly responding to pressing matters as they arise. Susan is equally involved in the community, dedicating significant time and effort to supporting numerous not-for profit...
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Ms. Jennifer Claire Weiss
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Employment, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
University of Michigan Law School
Principal of law firm focusing practice on family law, child custody and support, visitation, domestic violence, mental health, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, FMLA and wage-and-hour violations, retaliation, civil rights, and juvenile justice. Offers settlement negotiation, litigation, general consulting, mediation, arbitration, and training services.
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William R Pokorny
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Employment, Business, Elder and Estate Planning
The University of Chicago Law School
William R. Pokorny represents management in a wide range of labor and employment matters. He concentrates his practice on litigation and counseling in areas including discrimination, disabilities, ERISA and employee benefits, employment contracts, covenants not to compete, wrongful discharge, wage and hour law, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and labor relations. He represents employers before state and federal courts as well as administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Mr. Pokorny has experience with a wide variety of clients, including manufacturers, utilities, hospitals and healthcare providers, insurance companies, financial services...
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Allison Huebert
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Employment, Business, Insurance Claims and Securities
University of Virginia School of Law and The University of Chicago Law School
My practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and arbitration. I represent clients in high-stakes, high-dollar disputes involving breach of contract, employment law, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, insurance coverage, securities disputes, class actions, and whistleblower claims. I have represented both plaintiffs and defendants before state and federal courts, and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.
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Heidi Steiner
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Employment
Northwestern University School of Law
Heidi has provided employment law counseling to businesses in a wide variety of industries. She helps create and implement policies, conducts training, and drafts and negotiated executive employment agreements and separation releases. Heidi has training as a Human Resources Professional by the Human Resources Certification Institute, and approaches labor and employment problems with an eye toward finding positive business solutions to client problems.
Heidi has advised numerous clients in the drafting and revision of covenants not to compete, employment contract, separation agreements, employee policies and handbooks, and affirmative action plans, She also advises clients on FLSA and...
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Michael J. Merrick
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Employment, IP and Workers' Comp
Creighton University School of Law and University of Nebraska College of Law
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George W. Svoboda
Grayslake, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Employment, Business and Collections
University of Illinois - Chicago John Marshall Law School
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Lori D Ecker
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 41 years of experience
Employment
DePaul College of Law
Lori Ecker provides knowledgeable representation to clients who have been subjected to sexual harassment, a hostile work environment, discrimination because of race, religion, age, gender, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or who have suffered retaliatory or wrongful termination. She has the experience and resources to represent employees in disputes involving the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, whistleblower retaliation, Workers’ Compensation retaliatory discharge claims, and unemployment compensation, among others. Ms. Ecker is particularly skilled in all matters relating to employment contracts, including severance agreements, executive compensation contracts and non-compete agreements.
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Ethan Zelizer
Naperville, IL Employment Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
(630) 551-8374
HR Law Counsel, LLC
3108 State Route 59, Suite 124-205
Naperville, IL 60565
Free ConsultationEmployment, Civil Rights and Workers' Comp
Ethan G. Zelizer is a nationally respected employment and labor law attorney, senior certified human resources professional and a certified labor relations professional, based in Chicago, Illinois. Ethan has extensive experience working with both management and employees. He has extensive experience representing and advising employers in various industries including financial services, aerospace, manufacturing, and food distribution, in all aspects of labor and employment law. He regularly appears before federal and state courts, federal arbitration panels, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Illinois Department of Human Rights, and the Human Rights Commission. Ethan...
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Samuel Bae
Des Plaines, IL Employment Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
Employment, Business, Divorce and Personal Injury
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
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Joshua Heidelman
Oakbrook Terrace, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Employment, Business and International
University of Notre Dame Law School
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Thomas P. Polacek
Joliet, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Employment and Personal Injury
Washington University School of Law
Tom practices primarily in the area of personal injury, representing the seriously injured in state and federal trial courts. He also represents clients in general administrative litigation. Tom has litigation experience before trial and appellate courts in Missouri and Illinois, including arguments before the Illinois Supreme Court. He has represented clients and tried cases in U.S. Federal Courts in the Illinois Central and Northern Districts.
Tom was an academic All-American football player at Washington University in St. Louis and is married to a former national champion volleyball player. He maintains a strong interest in all sports and counts riding his bicycle,...
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Christopher M. Kloth
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer
Employment, Business and Construction
Hamline University School of Law
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Jungyoon Jaz Park
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney
Employment
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Jaz Park concentrates her practice in labor and employment law including Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, FLSA, IMWL, IWPCA, retaliation, and unemployment insurance claims and appeals. She is available to serve as a private mediator in disputes between parties upon request.
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Steven Richard Saks
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
Employment, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
DePaul College of Law
Experienced trial lawyer with multiple $1,000,000+ first chair jury verdicts and numerous $1,000,000+ settlements. I treat every case as if it's the most important case I have - because it is the most important case you have.
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Michael T. Mertz
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney
Free ConsultationEmployment, Animal, Elder and Workers' Comp
DePaul College of Law
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David J Fish
Naperville, IL Employment Law Attorney with 24 years of experience
Employment and Business
Northern Illinois University
David is also well-respected in the legal community. For example, he was named an Illinois “Rising Star” attorney by Law and Politics Magazine during 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. He also received a 5.0 out of 5.0 “preeminent” ranking from Martindale Hubbell. David has, on several occasions, lectured at educational seminars for lawyers and other professionals. He has moderated a continuing legal education panel of federal magistrates and judges on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, he has presented before the Illinois State Bar Association on electronic discovery rules, and he testified before the United States Judicial Conference...
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Kamran Memon
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Workers' Comp
University of Chicago
Attorney Kamran Memon has been practicing law in the Chicagoland area since 1997. He has successfully represented many clients in a variety of legal matters. Mr. Memon graduated from the University of Chicago Law School. He works with a trusted network of attorneys who are experienced and skilled in a variety of legal areas.
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Michael H. Traison
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Employment, Bankruptcy, Business and IP
Michigan State University College of Law
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Yolanda R. Thomas
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Employment, Bankruptcy, Business and Divorce
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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Becky Bair Hurley
Chicago, IL Employment Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationEmployment, Animal, Elder and Workers' Comp
Northwestern University School of Law
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Elizabeth M.B. Golden
Chicago, IL Employment Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Employment
Cornell University
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Bradford Block
Northbrook, IL Employment Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
Employment, Business, Estate Planning and Tax
DePaul College of Law
BRADFORD E. BLOCK is the principal of the Law Offices of Bradford E. Block, in Northbrook, IL. He has been an attorney for more than 35 years and practices in the areas of business formation, mergers and acquisitions, not-for-profit organizations, private foundations, equity financing, tax law, and the preparation and negotiation of corporate and technology contracts. Mr. Block has lectured to various professional groups on matters related to limited liability companies, partnerships, business transactions, S-corporations, and tax exempt organizations. He is a former adjunct professor of business planning and partnership law at DePaul University. Mr. Block is also a commercial...