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Michael J. Sheehan is a partner on the Labor and Employment Team in the firm’s HR Law Practice Group. Mike is a nationally known employment litigator with extensive courtroom experience, having tried dozens of cases to verdict across the country. He joined the firm from Connelly Sheehan Harris LLP, the firm he co-founded in 1990 and where he was managing partner for nearly 20 years.
Trial Experience. Mike has tried numerous cases before juries from Tucson, Ariz., to Newark, N.J.; from Atlanta to Golden, Colo. and many less notable spots in between. He successfully defended a sexual harassment case before a jury; won a directed verdict in a national origin discrimination trial; lost before an Atlanta jury but won a JNOV in a case for an insurance carrier; and, as a corporate plaintiff, won a $6 million award from a jury in a trade secret case in Colorado. One of Mike’s most recent jury trials was a victory versus the EEOC in a Title VII religious accommodation case. In the New Jersey Supreme Court, Mike successfully argued a case that definitively set the statute of limitations under the LAD at 2 years.
Mike’s litigation experience also includes NASD litigation, including raiding cases and employment matters. He also investigated and defended Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower cases. In addition, Mike provides strategic counseling on protecting trade secrets and key employees as corporate assets, including prosecuting and defending unfair competition litigation involving large scale raiding, inevitable disclosure of trade secrets and breach of non-compete agreements.
In General. Mike graduated cum laude from Hillsdale College in 1981. He received his J.D. in 1984 from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he was a member of Wake Forest’s law review. He is admitted to practice law in Illinois and in numerous federal courts throughout the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. | 