The 2026 listing of leading Employee-focused Chicago Employment Lawyers details attorneys practising within the areas of employment and industrial relations matters across the greater Chicago legal market whose practice has a strong employee representation focus and who have been identified by the city’s employment lawyers for their expertise and abilities in these areas.
Preeminent
Vicki Lafer Abrahamson, Abrahamson Rdzanek & Wilkins LLC
M. Nieves Bolaños, Hawks Quindel
Kristin Case, Case + Sedey LLC
M. Megan O’Malley, O’Malley & Madden
Leading
Margaret Angelucci, Asher Gittler & D’Alba
Melissa Auerbach, Dowd Bloch Bennett Cervone Auerbach & Yokich LLP
Max Barack, Garfinkel Group LLC
Barry Bennett, Dowd Bloch Bennett Cervone Auerbach & Yokich LLP
Robert Bloch, Dowd Bloch Bennett Cervone Auerbach & Yokich LLP
Deane Brown, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym
Danielle Burns, Jacobs Burns Orlove & Hernandez LLP
Alejandro Caffarelli, Caffarelli & Martin
Lori Deem, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym
Lori Ecker, Law Office of Lori D Ecker
Dennis Favaro, Favaro & Gorman
Laura Feldman, The Prinz Law Firm
David Fish, Workplace Law Partners
Linda Friedman, Stowell & Friedman
Marisel Hernandez, Jacobs Burns Orlove & Hernandez LLP
Jonathan Karmel, Karmel & Torres LLC
Wesley Kennedy, Allison Slutsky & Kennedy
Jerry Marzullo, Asher Gittler & D’Alba
Susan Matta, Allison Slutsky & Kennedy
Kate Sedey, Case + Sedey LLC
Matthew Singer, Matt Singer Law LLC
Michael Slutsky, Allison Slutsky & Kennedy
Sherrie Voyles, Jacobs Burns Orlove & Hernandez LLP
Marni Willenson, Willenson Law LLC
Christopher Wilmes, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym
Recommended
David Baltmanis, Miner Barnhill & Galland
Laurel Bellows, The Bellows Law Group
Frank Bertuca, Katz Friedman Eisenstein Johnson Bareck & Bertuca
Amit Bindra, The Prinz Law Firm
Suzanne Bish, Stowell & Friedman
Patrick Dolan, Conti & Dolan LLC
Gail Schnitzer Eisenberg, Loftus & Eisenberg
Haskell Garfinkel, Garfinkel Group LLC
Lori Goldstein, Law Office of Lori A Goldstein LLC
Bridgette Kolb, Katz Friedman Eisenstein Johnson Bareck & Bertuca
David Lee, Law Offices of David L Lee
Michael Leonard, Leonard Trial Lawyers
Rafael Lázaro, Lázaro Law Group LLC
John Madden, O’Malley & Madden
Aaron Maduff, Barrett & Farahany
Ruth Major, Law Offices of Ruth I. Major
Bradley Manewith, Lichten & Liss-Riordan
Alexis Martin, Caffarelli & Martin
Timothy Nolan, Nolan Law Office
Matthew Pierce, Asher Gittler & D’Alba
Kristen Prinz, The Prinz Law Firm
Maureen Salas, Werman Salas
Jill Weinstein, Pedersen & Weinstein LLP
Douglas Werman, Werman Salas
J. Bryan Wood, Kaplan Law Firm PLLC
Charlie Wysong, Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym
James Zouras, Stephan Zouras LLC