Graefe & Hansen, Ltd.

Attorneys

Practice Area:

Employment and Labor Law and Litigation on behalf of Management

Representative Experience:

• Possesses extensive experience in representing management before federal, state and local agencies responsible for handling discrimination charges.
• Has tried employment actions before juries in federal court, as well as before the Illinois Human Rights Commission and other state agencies outside of Illinois.
• Regularly defends management in class and collective wage and hour actions in state and federal courts.
• Has defended employers in many labor arbitrations throughout the country.
• Frequently represents clients before the National Labor Relations Board on matters including picketing, secondary boycotts and other unfair labor practice charges.
• Has advised management in union organizing campaigns.
• Extensive experience in representing employers before federal and state labor departments.
• Routinely counsels clients in a wide variety of human resources matters such as managing personnel problems and establishing effective policies and procedures.
• Frequently participates in management training programs and seminars on a wide variety of topics such as wage and hour practices, workplace privacy, and in-house personnel auditing procedures.

• Illinois, 1987
• Federal Bar and Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits

• The John Marshall Law School (J.D. 1987)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A. 1981)

• American Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association
• Co-chair of Subcommittee on the Illinois Human Rights Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights (2001)
• Editorial Review Board Member, Illinois Employer Advisor (2002)
• Society for Human Resource Management
• Contributing Author, Labor Law for the General Practitioner, Duty of Fair Representation, IICLE (2001)
• Contributing Author, Best Practices in Human Resources (March, 2000)