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