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Alan S. Rutkoff PC is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's Chicago office. He is a member of the Firm's Trial Department, where his practice focuses on complex business, corporate and labor litigation. He also serves as the Firm's General Counsel. He has substantial experience in federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels, and before administrative agencies and arbitration tribunals.
Alan regularly represents public and private companies as well as professionals engaged in the practice of law and accounting. He has worked extensively in the litigation areas of matters involving mergers and acquisitions, securities fraud, ERISA, unfair competition, trusts and estates, real estate, partnerships, and business dissolutions. His labor experience includes the representation of management in employment discrimination and contract litigation, in dealings with labor unions and in personnel administration.
Alan has represented major corporations in securities, takeover and class action cases, including major class actions against Fruit of the Loom alleging securities fraud related to a decline in its stock price; Amoco Corporation in a Texas class action claiming huge investment losses from the transition to a "paperless" telephone system for a 33,000-participant 401(k) plan; and Montgomery Ward in a Wyoming class action alleging systematic underpayment of thousands of commissioned sales associates at all of the company's stores throughout the United States. Other recent representations include Sunbeam Corporation in its highly-publicized trademark licensing dispute with the American Medical Association. He also has represented national accounting firms in the successful defense of securities and class action claims. In a recent unfair competition case, in addition to securing a sweeping injunction, he recovered in excess of $250,000 in attorneys' fees.
Alan is a member of the trial bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Circuits. He is a member of the Chicago and American bar associations.
During law school, Alan was a member of the Law Review and an assistant instructor.
Education
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 1976
University of Michigan, B.A. (with high distinction), 1973 | 