About
Terry J. Smith is a partner with Smith O Callaghan & White. He has represented employers in all factors of labor and employment law for greater than 25 years, representing and often advising company defendants in litigation related to exertions and employment matters in federal and kingdom courts, and administrative corporations, in the course of america. Prior to founding a boutique firm, Mr. Smith become a partner with Schiff Hardin & Waite in Chicago and began his career with Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee.
He has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer for the past 6 years (2007-2012), representing the top five% of all attorneys within the State of Illinois. Mr. Smith has been awarded the AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the very best score for ethics and criminal potential. He has led Smith O Callaghan & White to an area among "Go-To Law Offices" for company suggest and national popularity as a "quality-in-class" boutique regulation office supplying exemplary purchaser consciousness and provider.
Mr. Smith deals considerably with all levels of employment-related litigation inside the federal and country courts — from pre-litigation suggest, to discovery, to dispositive motions, to trial. He has represented employers in single-party and multi-birthday celebration litigation. His enjoy encompasses instances involving employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, breach of employment contract, change mystery misappropriation, covenants no longer-to-compete, unfair opposition, worker pirating, breach of fiduciary responsibility, ERISA duties in reductions-in-force, workplace defamation and plenty of other exertions and employment issues. He has effectively litigated these cases during the us of a.
Mr. Smith additionally has represented employers in some of precedent-putting instances, including cases related to: the doctrine of inevitable disclosure of trade secrets, prison obligations of employers in discounts-in-force, place of business defamation law favorable to all Illinois employers on absolute privilege and self-e-book, no man or woman manager liability under Title VII, notice requirements in alleged harrassment instances, arbitration of personal employment agreement disputes and the first case to attain the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit substantively interpreting the FMLA. He additionally has successfully defended employers in lots of cases concerning claims of employment discrimination, sexual harassment and different place of business troubles that have ended in mentioned choices favorable to employers inside the federal and country courts. He has considerable experience representing employers in administrative enterprise investigations, and in labor arbitrations and mediations.
Mr. Smith regularly counsels groups and other regulation workplaces on legal compliance, avoidance of employee claims and alternative dispute decision. His exertions and employment suggest encompasses elaborate terminations, employment contracts and restrictive covenants, harassment issues, incapacity accommodation, FMLA compliance and a wide range of different place of business troubles.
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