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Vedder Price Offices
222 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2600
CHICAGO, IL 60601-1003
ILLINOIS
United States
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Eugene A. Boyle
Work Department
Labor and Employment
Position
Shareholder
Career
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. Mr. Boyle has significant experience in the areas of traditional labor law and labor-management relations. He has negotiated many collective bargaining agreements and regularly provides advice with respect to contract administration and grievance-handling. He has handled numerous labor arbitrations, unfair labor practice and representation cases before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and injunction proceedings in state and federal courts. He also provides guidance to employers who desire to remain union-free and has handled numerous union organizing and decertification campaigns.
Another focus of Mr. Boyle’s practice is compliance with employment regulations at the federal, state and local levels, including training and policy development, wage and hour law compliance, workforce reduction planning, and navigating state and federal plant closing laws. He also has extensive experience negotiating complex employment agreements, separation agreements, outsourcing agreements and non-compete and confidentiality agreements.
When called for, Mr. Boyle’s practice also includes dispute resolution. He has litigated employment claims all across the country on behalf of management, and successfully defended employers in both single-plaintiff and multi-plaintiff cases involving employment discrimination claims, FMLA, wage and hour claims, retaliatory discharge claims, breach of contract claims and various other employment-related claims.
Mr. Boyle is a frequent speaker and has lectured on a variety of employment law and traditional labor topics.
Memberships
- Member, American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
- Member, American Bar Association, Committee on Employment Rights and Responsibilities
- Contributing Author, Labor Law Handbook, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education
Education
- Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1986
- Lawrence University, B.A., 1983
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
Vedder Price offers specialist advice on substantive and procedural points of law under the National Labor Relations Act and frequently appears before the NLRB in unfair-labor-practice and representation matters. Union organizing, decertification petitions and maintaining union-free status are key focuses of the team. Elizabeth N. Hall chairs the group, while Eugene A. Boyle counsels and defends companies in cases spanning all aspects of labor law, and Kenneth F. Sparks has extensive experience working with health care organizations, logistics companies, and manufacturers on labor litigation matters. Los Angeles-based Candice Zee focuses on traditional labor law matters and NLRB proceedings. All lawyers are in Chicago unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense