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Experience:
Andrew Rosenman is an experienced litigator whose practice particularly emphasizes labor and employment litigation and counseling on behalf of employers. In the course of his litigation and employment law practice, Andrew represents clients in a broad variety of actions, including:
Trials. First-chaired a jury trial resulting in a defense verdict in an age discrimination case filed by the client company's oldest employee (age 70 at trial), in which all other employees terminated in the same reduction-in-force were over the age of 45; obtained a defense verdict on all counts for client-employer in a jury trial involving claims of workers' compensation retaliatory discharge and failure to re-hire; obtained judgment in favor of a defendant corporation on all counts in a bench trial of a $150 million complex litigation matter in US Bankruptcy Court.
Class and Collective Actions. Defended several state and federal wage and hour collective and class actions, as well as Railway Labor Act class actions and multi-plaintiff race, age, and national origin discrimination claims.
Appellate Cases. Briefed and argued cases in state and federal appellate courts, including a sexual harassment case in the Michigan Court of Appeals; an age, race, and national origin discrimination case in the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and wrongful discharge, common law torts and breach of employment contract claims in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Individual Claims. Obtained numerous favorable summary judgment rulings and Rule 12(b)(6) dismissals in sexual harassment cases, and age, sex, race, disability, and national origin discrimination cases.
Administrative Proceedings. Frequently represented employers in proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (age, sex, race, disability, and national origin discrimination, as well as sexual and racial harassment); the US Department of Labor (wages and FMLA); the Illinois Human Rights Commission (discrimination and harassment); the Illinois Department of Labor (wage claims); the Chicago Commission on Human Relations (discrimination and harassment); the Minnesota Human Rights Commission (sex discrimination); and the New York State Division on Human Rights (race discrimination).
Mediations. Represented employers and corporate clients in dozens of formal, court-ordered settlement conferences and mediation programs and in informal, voluntary mediations and case evaluation procedures mandated by state courts.
Commercial Litigation Experience. Represented corporate clients as plaintiffs and defendants in various complex commercial litigation matters.
Andrew's practice also encompasses substantive areas of concentration, including:
Terms of Employment. Counsels clients regarding compliance issues arising under Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FLSA, FMLA, WARN, and state and local employment laws; advises clients with respect to decision-making processes in restructurings and reductions-in-force; assists clients in conducting investigations of harassment and employee misconduct; enforces restrictive covenants and defends related claims.
Policies and Practices. Drafts employment contracts and severance agreements, disciplinary notices, employee manuals and handbooks, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, and mass layoff and plant closing notices under the WARN Act.
Pro bono. Represents and provides advice to top administrators of a privately funded, independent school in Chicago with respect to litigation and employment law matters.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown's Chicago Office in 1999, Andrew was associated with another prominent law firm in Detroit. Earlier (1995-1996), he served as Law Clerk to The Honorable Steven D. Pepe in US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Andrew has an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Notable Engagements:
Goulson v. Yum! Brands, Inc., 2007 WL 2318726 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 10, 2007) and 2005 WL 3021970 (E.D. Mich. Nov. 10, 2005).
Filson v. The Big Ten Conference, Inc., 2006 WL 3626707 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 11, 2006).
Redmond v. Refco Group Ltd., 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25800 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 21, 2004).
Cerutti v. BASF Corp., 349 F.3d 1055 (7th Cir. 2003).
Trammel v. BASF Corp., 2002 WL 59114 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 14, 2002).
Zakaras v. United Airlines, Inc., 121 F. Supp. 2d 1196 (N.D. Ill. 2000).
Education:
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, JD, with High Honors, 1995; Order of the Coif; Notes and Comments Editor, Chicago-Kent Law Review; Moot Court Honor Society; Second-best Oralist, Chicago Bar Association Moot Court Competition; Chicago-Kent Trial Advocacy Team, The University of Michigan, BA, 1991. |
