About

Provided by Winston & Strawn LLP

Drawing upon over 80 years of experience in labor and employment law, Winston & Strawn boasts a dedicated team of attorneys known for their adept, effective, and successful handling of a wide spectrum of labor and employment law issues across multiple industries. Our Illinois-based team is one of the most experienced labor and employment groups among the region’s multi-disciplined law firms, enabling us to tackle an extremely challenging and diverse workload with finesse. We routinely handle cases before administrative boards, trial courts, and courts of appeal, involving a myriad of issues including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour disputes, misappropriation of trade secrets, whistleblower claims, and traditional labor matters. Moreover, we provide proactive guidance and litigation-minimizing advice and counsel with respect to nearly all labor and employment challenges that our clients encounter in the regular course of business. Widely trusted by major employers both in Illinois and nationwide, we also represent several major employers as national and/or regional labor and employment law counsel, or as a “preferred provider,” managing either all or significant portions of our clients’ labor and employment litigation and advisory needs.

Chambers Review

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Labor & Employment: The Elite - Illinois

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Winston & Strawn has a high-quality team that undertakes a range of labor and employment matters, including complex issues such as wage and hour violations and labor relations counseling. The group also excels in representation of clients in discrimination cases, whistle-blower matters and trade secrets disputes. Its client base includes management consulting companies and medical device corporations.

Work Highlights

  • Winston & Strawn provided employment counsel to Accenture, representing it in employment litigation as well as providing more general employment advice.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Michael Roche
4
Michael Roche
4
Band 4

Michael Roche is an experienced litigator, representing clients across all industries, with a particular focus on representation of professional services and financial firms.

Michael is an outstanding attorney.

Cardelle Spangler
5
Cardelle Spangler
5
Band 5

Cardelle Spangler is best known for her expertise in representing her clients in discrimination and retaliation claims.

Cardelle is a subject matter expert. She is by far my most trusted resource for labor and employment matters.

Ranked Lawyers at
Winston & Strawn LLP

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Illinois

Labor & Employment

Michael Roche
4
Michael Roche
4
Band 4
Cardelle Spangler
5
Cardelle Spangler
5
Band 5

Members

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Aviva Grumet-Morris

Ben Ostrander

Cardelle Spangler

Michael Roche

Head of Department

Industries

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Financial Services & Banking

Health Care

Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices

Professional Services

Retail & Consumer Products