Employment Law Attorney Ronald B. Schwartz is an Experienced Lawyer, Chicago, Illinois.

Ronald B. Schwartz, Employment Lawyer
Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein, Johnson & Bareck, P.C.
77 W. Washington St., 20th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60602
(312)263-6330

rbs@workplacelawyer.com

Education
Bar Admissions
Related Activities

Professional Experience

December 2004 - Present

Employment law, primarily individual employment rights including FMLA and overtime matters, as well as qui tam actions.

KATZ, FRIEDMAN, EAGLE, EISENSTEIN, JOHNSON & BARECK, P.C., 77 W. Washington St., 20th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60602

June 1995 - December 2004

HEDBERG, TOBIN, FLAHERTY & WHALEN, P.C., Three First National Plaza, Suite 2150, Chicago, Illinois 60602

General civil litigation and trial practice, concentrated in employment discrimination/wrongful discharge matters.

June 1995 - May 1996

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 565 W. Adams St., Chicago, Illinois 60661.

Adjunct Professor. Taught Interviewing and Counseling Course and supervised Advice Desk at Richard J. Daley Civic Center.

July 1981 - June 1995

LAW OFFICES, CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW, ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 565 W. Adams St., Chicago, Illinois 60661

Clinical Instructor. Supervised and utilized law students on real cases: provided individualized instruction in interviewing, drafting of pleadings, discovery requests and responses, motions, trial practice, counseling and negotiations, and legal practice management. Taught Interviewing and Counseling Course and supervised Advice Desk at Richard J. Daley Civic Center.

Bar Admissions

Supreme Court of Illinois; United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (General and Trial Bar); United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Supreme Court of the United States.

Education

September 1977 - June 1980

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW,, Chicago, Illinois J.D., Honors (1980).

Law Review: Notes and Comments Editor. Legal Services Center (now Law Offices): Law Intern, with Ill. Sup. Ct. Rule 711 Student Practice License. Ethics Council. Judicial Extern for Honorable Marvin E. Aspen, United States District Court.

August 1973 - August 1977

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, Illinois, B.A., Political Science (1977).

October 1976 - June 1977

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Liberal Arts studies.

Related Activities

May 2005 - Present Trustee, West Deerfield Township Board.

1999 - Present Design, code and maintain this web site. Also use computers frequently for word processing, spreadsheet applications, Westlaw and Lexis/Nexis research, and Adobe Acrobat applications.

2003-04 Chair, Labor and Employment Law Committee, Chicago Bar Association.

December 2002 Governor-Elect Rod Blagojevich's Benefits Sub-Committee of the Labor Transition Committee.

Feb. 2000 - Present Arbitrator, FINRA Dispute Regulation.

1989 - 2004 Arbitrator, Cook County Circuit Court Mandatory Arbitration Program.

1998-2001, 2003 - 2005 Executive Board of NELA/Illinois, an Affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association.

January 1993 - May 1994 Initiated, planned and implemented Illinois Human Rights Commission decision library, one of the first searchable legal databases on the Internet, through the Chicago-Kent Gopher and World Wide Web site.

1992 - 1993 Chair of the Civil Rights Committee, Chicago Bar Association.

1991 - 1992 Spokesperson for civil rights attorneys on committee which considered procedural reform of Human Rights Act. Committee included leadership of the Illinois Department of Human Rights, Illinois Human Rights Commission, and management groups.

1988 - 1989 Chicago-Kent representative for first Illinois Legal Needs Study.