HOBFOLL LAW LLC.
Expert Guidance for Workplace Legal Challenges
Counseling
Specialized advice, analysis, and strategy about employment law compliance and legal protections for individuals and businesses.
Litigation
Skilled and experienced legal representation guiding you through the lifecycle of employment law claims in the courtroom.
Dispute Resolution
A more informal, expeditious, and cost-effective way to resolve employment disputes outside the traditional court system.
A Chicagoland Employment Law Practice
Hobfoll Law is committed to resolving conflict in the workplace, helping organizations and individuals both address their short-term needs and reach their long-term goals in the area of employment law. Services range from counseling on day-to-day employment issues, advice and analysis concerning legal matters, investigating employee complaints, developing policies, reviewing agreements, conducting training, coaching individuals, and mediating, arbitrating or litigating employment claims. Hobfoll Law is focused on achieving solutions specifically tailored to the goals of its clients. The firm prioritizes a collaborative, facilitative, and common-sense approach to help employees and employers navigate, understand, and resolve the ever-evolving challenges of the workplace and the applicability of the wide range of employment laws.
Areas of Practice
Human Resources: consulting and employment law compliance
Pay practices: benefits, commissions, overtime, misclassification, and wage and hour compliance
Workplace discrimination, harassment, and hostile work environment
Employment Contracts: offers, NDAs, confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicitation, independent contractor, transition, separation and severance, etc.
Employee handbook drafting and audits
Internal workplace investigations
Employee counseling and discipline
Executive coaching and advocacy
Whistleblower protections and workplace retaliation
Disability and pregnancy accommodations
Leave of absence and paid time off
Wrongful discharge
Unemployment benefits
Administrative agency representation: DOL, IDES, EEOC, IDHR, and NLRB
Alternative Dispute Resolution: arbitration and mediation services