Arnstein & Lehr recently launched a labor and employment blog, General-Counselor.com.  It is designed as an educational resource for employers, human resource professionals, general counsel and labor relation’s officers  to better understand their legal requirements and obligations as governed by the federal statutes. General-Counselor.com is maintained by the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Practice Group [...]

Paul Starkman, chair of Arnstein & Lehr’s Labor & Employment Law Practice Group, spoke about executive compensation at the midwinter meeting of the American Bar Association’s Employment Rights & Responsibilities Committee on March 27, 2009.  Paul was part of a panel presentation entitled “For Whom the Deal Tolls: Legal Issues for Executive Employment Agreements in [...]

On May 8, 2009, Chicago Partner and Chair of Arnstein & Lehr’s Labor & Employment Law Practice Group,  Paul Starkman, will be speaking at an ALI-ABA webinar on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett (Case No. 07-581, decided April 1, 2009) upholding collective bargaining agreements that send individual employment [...]

On April 24 Chicago Partners Samuel Levine (left) and William Anaya (right), both members of Arnstein & Lehr’s Real Estate Law Practice Group are participating in the Real Estate Update 2009 at the Linder Conference Center in Lombard, Illinois. Mr. Anya will serve as the event’s moderator, and Mr. Levine is a panelist at a [...]

The Peterson Pulaski Business & Industrial Council invites business owners, executives, managers and human resources professionals to the fourth program in their Employment Law Series: Employee Terminations Reducing Liabilities When Conducting Layoffs and Reductions in Force featuring Mark A. Spognardi Labor and Employment Law Attorney Arnstein & Lehr, LLP Each time an employer releases an [...]

“The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine: An Analysis of its Application in Today’s Legal Environment,” Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 559 (Vol. 61, No. 3, Fall, 2007) (authored by John L. Ropiequet with Eugene J. Kelley, Jr. and E. Jason Tremblay) The Rooker Feldman Doctrine