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Vedder Price Offices

222 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 2600
CHICAGO, IL 60601-1003
ILLINOIS
United States
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Nicholas Anaclerio

Work Department
Labor & Employment
Position
Mr. Anaclerio has decades of experience as a Labor and Employment trial and appellate attorney helping clients in the defense of wage and hour, discrimination, and other employment class actions, lawsuits and charges involving alleged sexual harassment and retaliation, gender, race, age, national origin, disability and religious discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Illinois Whistleblower Act, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 and related state and federal laws. His practice has likewise included hundreds of restrictive covenant and trade secret misappropriation disputes, claims and lawsuits, including numerous high stakes temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction hearings.
He is a seasoned trial attorney with extensive first-chair jury trial, bench trial and arbitration hearing experience. He provides practical and insightful human resource counseling to management clients facing ongoing employee relations and employment law compliance issues, and he has represented corporate and institutional clients in a wide range of industries and professions.
Mr. Anaclerio regularly publishes and speaks on employment topics including the ethical dimension of restrictive covenant and trade secret disputes, wage and hour compliance, sensitive workplace investigations, generational workforce issues, employee privacy, workplace retaliation claims and many others.
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1984
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.A., 1981, with honors
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
Vedder Price offers assistance to clients facing employment-related litigation against claims involving unlawful discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and wage and hour violations. The team also offers specialist knowledge of the healthcare and financial services spaces. The practice is headed by Chicago-based Elizabeth Hall, who has extensive experience representing employers before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Nicholas Anaclerio is also based in the Chicago office and often assists client in the defense of wage and hour and discrimination claims. Thomas Petrides is a key name in the Los Angeles office for his expertise in PAGA and FLSA actions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Chicago Elite > Corporate and M&A
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Chicago Elite > Corporate and M&A
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
Firm Rankings
- Chicago Elite > Commercial disputes
- Chicago Elite > Commercial disputes
- 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