Kenneth F. Sparks > Vedder Price > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
Vedder Price Offices
222 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2600
CHICAGO, IL 60601-1003
ILLINOIS
United States
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Kenneth F. Sparks
Work Department
Traditional Labor
Labor & Employment
Position
Shareholder
Career
Mr. Sparks is a Shareholder with over 25 years of experience in labor and employment matters.
He represents and advises private and public employers across a broad range of industries, with extensive experience working with health care organizations, in complicated labor law and litigation matters nationwide. Among his areas of concentration are union organizing and collective bargaining, including development and implementation of integrated responses to all of the litigation, publicity and strike matters that can and often do become a part of organizing and collective bargaining. He has negotiated numerous collective bargaining agreements, tried cases before the National Labor Relations Board, handled organizing and decertification campaigns and related litigation, managed injunction and other legal issues growing out of nationwide and local strikes, quelled unlawful secondary boycott campaigns and handled numerous labor-related litigation matters in state and federal courts.
Mr. Sparks also has extensive experience handling employment matters before federal and state courts and agencies, and counseling employers on how to avoid such litigation. His areas of practice include a wide variety of Title VII, ADEA, FMLA, ADA duty of fair representation and related discrimination lawsuits and noncompete agreement disputes, workplace defamation actions and wrongful-discharge matters.
Memberships
- Member, Bar of the District of Columbia
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1989, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1986, Truman Scholar
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
Vedder Price represents clients in industries which vary from healthcare to logistics to manufacturing, among many others. Running the group are duo Kenneth F. Sparks and Elizabeth Hall in Chicago. Sparks offers of deep experience in labor and employment matters, while Hall has negotiated many collective bargaining agreements and is comfortable advising on the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and other traditional labor law matters, as are many other team members.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- 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
- 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