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Alan S. King is a partner in the firm’s labor and employment practice and serves as vice chair of the HR Law Practice Group. His practice is concentrated in the area of employment litigation and counseling. Alan has extensive experience on behalf of both private and public employers in virtually all types of employment-related litigation. He has successfully litigated cases and advised clients on a broad range of employment matters, including employment discrimination issues, employee benefits and ERISA, restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements, wrongful discharge, defamation and other state and federal statutory and common law employment law issues.
Alan’s practice includes individual and class action litigation in federal and state courts, and he has considerable experience representing employers before federal, state and local administrative agencies, including the EEOC, OSHA, the NLRB, the Illinois State Labor Relations Board, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the U.S. and Illinois Departments of Labor. Alan also regularly advises clients on a wide range of employment law issues, including matters of employee discipline and termination and wage and hour, non-competition and workplace harassment issues.
Alan is a frequent lecturer to bar associations and employer groups; his recent topics have included the Americans with Disabilities Act, workplace harassment, violence in the workplace, employee handbooks and at-will employment issues.
A graduate of Augustana College, Alan received his J.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was notes editor of the Illinois Bar Journal.
Alan is a member of Mayor Richard Daley’s 21st Century Leadership Council, an advisory council to the mayor, and serves on the board of directors of the Ounce of Prevention Fund and the Chicago Public Schools' Children First Fund. Alan was named to Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s prestigious list of "40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch" in 2003. Alan has also been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer" in management employment by the Leading Lawyers Network, and has been selected as an Illinois "SuperLawyer" by Chicago magazine. | 