Graefe & Hansen, Ltd.

Attorneys

Practice Area:

• Employment and Labor Law and Litigation on behalf of Management
• Representative Experience:
• Extensive experience in the construction industry concerning picketing, secondary boycotts and injunction cases.
• Routinely practices before the National Labor Relations Board on matters such as illegal picketing, secondary boycotts, representation cases and defense of unfair labor practices charges.
• Extensive experience before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state and local agencies concerning charges of discrimination.
• Frequently represents employers in labor arbitrations.
• Comprehensive expertise in negotiating collective bargaining agreements.
• Lead counsel in jury trials in federal and state courts.
• Thorough knowledge and experience in handling matters before federal and state labor departments, including wage and hour and prevailing wage claims.
• Regularly advises clients concerning union organizing campaigns, personnel, employment and wage and hour issues, policies and procedures.
• Extensive experience in defending employers in suits by Union Trust Funds.

• Illinois, 1981
• Federal Bar and Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh, Fourth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits

• Northwestern University School of Law (J.D. 1981)
• University of Michigan (M.A. 1972)
• College of the Holy Cross (B.A. 1970)

• American Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association
• Frequent presenter at seminars on labor and employment law issues