Allison L. Feldstein is a Member in the firm’s Labor and Employment Department. Ms. Feldstein represents management in all aspects of employment-related and traditional labor matters. Ms. Feldstein regularly defends employers before administrative agencies and state and federal courts in claims involving employment discrimination, retaliation, retaliatory discharge, harassment, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and state and federal wage and hour laws. In addition, Ms. Feldstein has significant experience in handling traditional labor matters, including representation and unfair labor practice cases, before the National Labor Relations Board. She has also negotiated collective bargaining agreements and regularly represents employers in grievance arbitrations.
Ms. Feldstein also devotes a significant portion of her practice to counseling firm clients on matters related to employee discipline and terminations, accommodation requests, harassment investigations, workplace violence, wage and hour issues, leaves of absence, restrictive covenants, and union representation and strike and picketing activity. She also lectures extensively on these topics. Ms. Feldstein reviews and drafts employee handbooks and negotiates and drafts employee separation and employment agreements.
J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1998 (Cum Laude)
B.A., Indiana University, 1995
Illinois; Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Western District of Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit