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![]() Brian McCalmon is a Litigation shareholder in Vedder Price’s Washington, DC office, focusing on Antitrust and Consumer Protection. His antitrust practice focuses on conduct and merger investigations and cases brought by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general. He also represents companies in investigations of marketing, advertising, and privacy practices before the FTC and other consumer protection agencies. |
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![]() Jeremy M. Alexander is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Washington, DC office and Chair of the Health Care & Life Sciences practice group. Mr. Alexander focuses his practice on managing intricate regulatory, transactional and enforcement issues for health care providers and suppliers. | |
![]() Eugene A. Boyle is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice area in Chicago. Mr. Boyle counsels and defends companies nationally in all facets of labor and employment law, regularly advising employers across many industries on a broad spectrum of employment law issues. | |
![]() Christopher T. Collins is Chair of the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits group. He assists employers on all aspects of employee benefits, focusing on retirement and welfare plan design, qualification and compliance. He frequently advises employers regarding benefit issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions and U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service correction programs. | |
![]() Michael D. Considine is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group. His practice focuses on labor and employment law, assisting companies with a variety of employment matters, including workplace investigations, leave and accommodation issues, discrimination and wage and hour disputes, and employee handbooks. | ![]() Fernanda Contreras is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment group. Ms. Contreras specializes in labor and employment law, with a particular emphasis on workplace discrimination and wage and hour disputes. Her fluency in Spanish has proven invaluable in assisting with internal workplace investigations. She has significant experience researching and analyzing issues relevant to discrimination, non-competes, severance arrangements, arbitration and union disputes. |
![]() Peyton Demith is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office, and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group. Mr. Demith focuses his practice on traditional labor law. He has experience in collective bargaining negotiations, grievance arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, recognition petitions, and other administrative matters. | |
![]() Adam S. Goldman is an Associate in the Chicago office of Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Investment Services group. | |
![]() Arianna Goodman is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense group. Ms. Goodman is a trial attorney who regularly represents individuals and corporate clients in matters involving the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission and related agencies. | |
![]() Elizabeth N. Hall is a Shareholder in the firm’s Labor and Employment practice area and serves as the Chicago office chair of the firm’s women’s affinity group, “Women at Vedder Empowering Success” (WAVES). Ms. Hall represents a wide range of employers before state and federal courts and administrative agencies, as well as in arbitral forums, defending them against various claims, including single plaintiff and class allegations of employment discrimination, failure to accommodate disabilities, sexual harassment, wrongful and retaliatory discharge, breach of contract and violations of the FMLA and wage and hour laws. Ms. Hall has successfully argued procedural and employment discrimination issues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and has particular expertise in managing electronic discovery teams in complex litigation. A significant portion of Ms. Hall’s daily practice involves providing practical advice to employers regarding risk management; effective employee discipline and discharge; conducting workplace investigations; accommodating disabilities and pregnancy; workplace violence; managing leaves of absence and complying with FMLA and state leave requirements; workforce reductions; drafting and reviewing employment, recruitment and staffing agreements; policy and handbook development; wage and hour compliance; and state and federal employment laws. She frequently trains clients and employer groups on many of these topics. Ms. Hall also has extensive experience drafting and negotiating severance, settlement and conciliation agreements on behalf of employer clients. In 2017 and 2018, Ms. Hall was recommended by The Legal 500 United States for the Labor and Employment Disputes (including collective actions): Defense category. In 2018, she was named to the Crain’s Custom Media “Chicago Notable Women Lawyers” list. She also was selected as an Emerging Lawyer, an affiliate of Leading Lawyers, from 2015 to 2019. From 2010 to 2015, Ms. Hall was selected for inclusion as an Illinois Rising Star, and Super Lawyers named her one of the “Top Women Attorneys in Illinois” in the “Rising Star” category in 2013 and 2014. | ![]() Thomas G. Hancuch is a Shareholder at Vedder Price, representing employers in all aspects of employee benefits, labor and employment law. Thomas G. Hancuch is a Shareholder at Vedder Price, representing employers in all aspects of employee benefits, labor and employment law. His practice focuses on employee benefit plan design and administration, including ERISA, Internal Revenue Code, and Affordable Care Act compliance; benefit claims and litigation; employee relations and benefits aspects of mergers, acquisitions, workforce reductions and outsourcing; severance and exit incentive programs and agreements; remote and hybrid work arrangements; leaves of absence and accommodation of employees with disabilities; employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims; employee leasing and worker classification; executive compensation; wage and hour laws; employee discipline and discharge; and other human resources matters. |
![]() Ellen “Ellie” M. Hemminger is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment group. Ellie focuses her practice on employment law, involving sexual harassment, retaliation and workplace discrimination. She has experience evaluating and advising on a vast array of employment-related issues, and has litigated before administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Department of Labor, and in state and federal court. | |
![]() Eleanor Hudson Callaway is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s Litigation group. Ms. Callaway has counseled clients on the validity and eligibility of patent claims for district court litigation and inter partes review at the Patent and Trademark Appeal Board. In addition, she has provided strategic counsel on all litigation matters, particularly patent licensing matters related to standard essential patents and F/RAND obligations and the accompanying commercial issues. Ms. Callaway has also drafted briefs related to discovery disputes in district court and at the International Trade Commission, provided trial advice in a global litigation campaign against Apple, and provided litigation strategy on 101 rulings. Ms. Callaway received her law degree from The University of Texas School of Law and her undergraduate degrees from Auburn University (Economics, B.S., and Political Science, B.A.). While in law school, Ms. Callaway was the articles and notes editor of the Texas Review of Litigation, the executive editor of the Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law, a board member at-large of the Texas Law Fellowships and a judging director for the Board of Advocates. | |
![]() James P. Looby is a Shareholder at Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Area. | |
![]() Michael A. Nemeroff is President and CEO of Vedder Price and Chairman of the Finance & Transactions group. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the firm’s Board of Directors. He is active in charitable and civic affairs as a Trustee of the Chicago History Museum, a member of the Executive Committee and Board of the Chicago Children’s Choir and a member of the Board of The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California. In addition, Mr. Nemeroff is one of two legal advisors to the G100, an elite international organization of leading Chief Executive Officers from Fortune 500 publicly traded corporations who meet regularly to share practical collective experience about deal making and leadership challenges. Mr. Nemeroff counsels corporations in mergers and acquisitions transactions and governance matters. He provides private equity firms and hedge funds with experienced direction in leveraged and management buyouts and guides financial institutions in complex finance transactions. Further, Mr. Nemeroff negotiates and structures executive compensation arrangements for companies, management teams, compensation committees and executives. His many clients include Ally Financial, L Squared Capital Partners, RoundTable Healthcare Partners, Citadel Investment Group, Allscripts, CIT Group, Bank of America, The PrivateBank, Oil-Dri Corporation of America, GrubHub, The Duchossois Group, Wynnchurch Capital, Valor Equity Partners and The Edgewater Funds. Mr. Nemeroff, an authority on M&A and finance matters, makes frequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg Television and is often cited in publications such as the Wall Street Journal. He is a member of the American Bar Association, The Commercial Club of Chicago and The Economic Club of Chicago. | |
![]() Michelle T. Olson is a Shareholder in the Labor and Employment group of the firm’s Chicago office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Ms. Olson regularly advises employers on a wide variety of employment law and human resources matters, including federal and state anti-discrimination laws, medical and pregnancy leaves of absence and accommodation requests, employee discipline and discharge, workforce reductions, whistleblower and retaliation claims, wage and hour violations and managing remote work and COVID-19-related issues. Ms. Olson is focused on providing practical legal advice and helping clients mitigate legal risks while achieving their business objectives. | |
![]() Cara J. Ottenweller is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment group in the Chicago office. Ms. Ottenweller regularly counsels and partners with clients on a broad range of complex human resources and employment law issues, and offers creative, strategic, and practical solutions that align with her clients’ needs and goals. | |
![]() Thomas H. Petrides is a Shareholder in the Los Angeles office of Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice group. | ![]() Marianna E. Politis is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group. Her practice focuses on labor and employment law, providing support for employers of all sizes with a variety of employment related matters. |
![]() Mark Quade is an associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Investment Services practice group. | |
![]() Jason W. Reese is an Administrative Shareholder at Vedder Price and Vice Chair of the Finance & Transactions group in the firm’s Los Angeles office. | |
![]() Nathaniel Segal is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and is a member of the Investment Services group. | |
![]() Daniel Shulman is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property group in the Chicago office. | |
![]() Kenneth F. Sparks is a Shareholder with over 25 years of experience in labor and employment matters. | |
![]() Andrew J. Sylora is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Health Care & Life Sciences practice group. Mr. Sylora focuses his practice on advising clients in the life sciences and health care industries on a wide range of transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. | |
![]() Jacob C. Tiedt is a Shareholder in the Chicago office of Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Investment Services group. | |
![]() Carissa A. Townsend is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment group. Ms. Townsend counsels and advises her clients on all areas of employment law in both state and federal court, including employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage/hour and wrongful discharge on claims involving single and multiple plaintiffs. She has extensive experience drafting and reviewing employment contracts, employee handbooks, non-compete agreements, severance agreements and non-disclosure agreements. | |
![]() Alex C. Weinstein is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice group in the Chicago office. Mr. Weinstein represents employers of all sizes in employment litigation and counseling. Mr. Weinstein prides himself on being a businessperson’s attorney, by providing practical legal advice that allows businesses to mitigate or respond to potential legal risk while continuing to meet their objectives. | |
Christina V. WestEmail Christina V. West is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Investment Services group. | ![]() Jake W. Wiesen is an Associate in the Chicago office of Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Investment Services practice group. |
![]() Gregory G. Wrobel serves as the firm’s Antitrust group leader and maintains a broad litigation and counseling practice covering a range of substantive areas in both federal and state courts. | |