Vedder’s employment team supports clients on a full range of employment matters. Practice head Elizabeth Hall leads the team from Chicago and is well-versed in drafting and negotiating severance agreements, settlements, and conciliation agreements. Thomas Hancuch, also based in Chicago, focuses on employee benefit plan design and administration. Washington DC-based Amy Bess specializes in employment litigation, while New York’s Jonathan Wexler excels in arbitrated statutory claims and grievances under collective bargaining agreements. Alex Weinstein, based in Chicago, focuses on restrictive covenants and trade secret protection, and San Francisco-based Cheryl Sabnis defends employers facing putative class, collective, and representative action.
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- The breadth of the team's expertise and its reach makes it particularly helpful to an organization that operates in multiple states and is growing into more.
Key clients
- ArrowMark Partners
- AAR Corp
- Ames Watson
- Ferrara Candy Company
- Wonderlic, Inc.
- Choreo
- Encyclopaedia Brittanica
- Jelly Belly
- Adventist Health
- Sonendo
- University of Southern California
- Canvas Worldwide
Work highlights
Providing labor and employment advice and counseling to ArrowMark, an investment management firm.
Serving as labor and employment counsel on all labor, employment, and employee benefits issues for BTX, a precision manufacturing platform company of L Squared Capital Partners.
Representing Adventist Health with respect to labor and employment matters, including traditional labor and employment litigation, and advice and counsel issues.
Practice head
Elizabeth Hall
Other key lawyers
Thomas Hancuch; Amy Bess; Jonathan Wexler; Alex Weinstein; Cheryl Sabnis