Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded
USA Guide 2024 : Illinois
Band 1
Contact number
312 222 0800About
Provided by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Strong employer-employee relations are essential to the success of any business. Michael Best’s Illinois Labor & Employment Relations team assists clients across the country make well-informed employment decisions and prepare for the future.
We take pride in understanding an organization’s unique needs—whether it is publicly held or nonprofit, private or public sector, with large or small workforces, white-collar or blue-collar, unionized or union-free.
We counsel clients from the earliest stages of employment-related decision-making, helping them develop and maintain workable employment policies, practices, and procedures that comply with evolving legal requirements. Our team’s deep knowledge of state-specific laws and regulations ensures clients receive the most relevant and effective advice tailored to their local needs.
Clients in Illinois and beyond turn to Michael Best for timely solutions, proactive advice, and goal-oriented advocacy, whether in the courtroom, during strategic planning, or at the bargaining table. We’re dedicated to helping employers anticipate and plan for change, manage risk, resolve conflict, and protect their interests.
Service Areas
• Affirmative Action Compliance
• Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Employment Litigation
• Employment Policies, Practices, and Audits
• Immigration
• Labor-Management Relations
• Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets
• Wage and Hour Compliance and Defense
• Workplace Safety and Health
Chambers Review
Michael Best & Friedrich is recognized for its wealth of expertise across a broad range of labor and employment issues. The firm frequently represents employers in high-stakes litigation as well as administrative proceedings. It also assists clients with noncontentious employment issues, including labor relations, employment policies and handbooks, and compliance. The team acts for a wide variety of clients, including those in the education, technology and entertainment sectors.
Work Highlights
- Michael Best & Friedrich continued to provide national employment counsel to CJ Logistics America, as well as representing the company in litigation filed in state and federal court across the country.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"They are extremely professional and communicative."
"The team is able to not only provide depth on legal issues but, more importantly, to understand the dynamics of our company to apply a commercial approach and help us make good business decisions."
"They are extremely professional and communicative."
"The team is able to not only provide depth on legal issues but, more importantly, to understand the dynamics of our company to apply a commercial approach and help us make good business decisions."
Notable Practitioners
Kerryann Haase Minton is an experienced litigator known for representing clients in a range of labor and employment matters, including discrimination and wage and hour cases.
"She is fabulous and unbelievably smart."
"I really see Kerryann as part of my team. Her guidance and her creativity is something that I have really become accustomed to and rely on."
Brian Paul is an experienced labor and employment litigator with experience representing employers in administrative proceedings as well as state and federal lawsuits. He is also a go-to adviser on strategic employment issues.
"Brian is an excellent partner to our company - he is able to understand our business so well and help us through complex problems."
Daniel Kaufman advises employers on day-to-day HR concerns and is also a seasoned litigator with experience handling the full range of employment disputes, including harassment and discrimination claims.
"Dan is so great and has always been super helpful to us. He is very knowledgeable about employment and labor law and is very responsive. It has been such a pleasure working with Dan."
"He is an outstanding lawyer who is very knowledgeable, practical and attentive to detail."
Ranked Lawyers at
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Illinois
Members
Provided by Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Andrew Shelby
Angela Lam
Benjamin Johnson
Bradley MacDonald
Courtney Tedrowe
Daniel Kaufman
Leigh Jeter
Michael Sokolowski