Mark D. Hansen

ISLN: 902117783
Member

Practice areas

• Employment and labor law and litigation on behalf of management
• Personnel policies
• Employer liability
• Unfair labor practices
• Wage and hour law
• Wrongful termination defense

Admitted

• Illinois, 1987
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit

Education

• John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1987

Associations & memberships

• Chicago Bar Association
• Illinois Bar Association

Representative experience

• Has extensive experience 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.

 

Graefe & Hansen, Ltd. serves clients in Chicago and throughout Illinois.