Paul Strauss
Attorney
Law Office of Paul Strauss
Contact Information
773-551-5350, pstr1968@gmail.com
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Biography
Paul Strauss is an experienced employment and employment discrimination lawyer with wide experience in individual and class action cases involving employment discrimination and wag and hour violations. His work involves cases in retail, financial, and agricultural settings, among others. A 1981 graduate of Yale Law School, he was an associate and partner at Miner, Barnhill & Galland for 25 years handling mainly employment discrimination and other civil rights cases. After Miner, Barnhill he worked three years at ACORN Housing as its General Counsel and six years at the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights as head of its Employment Opportunity Project. He has handled a number of cases in which recovery has been in the millions of dollars. In addition to his employment practice he has handled personal injury, medical malpractice, and First Amendment cases. Paul Strauss is the author of works on using statistics in employment discrimination cases, successful sexual harassment cases, and using an expert on implicit bias in individual race discrimination cases. He is a prior President of the Chicago Council of Lawyers and was a Finalist for the Trial Lawyer of the Year award from the American Trial Lawyers Association Foundation.
Areas of Law and Practice
| Areas of Law | Areas of Practice |
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| Appellate Practice | Civil Appeals, Criminal Appeals |
| Civil Rights | Civil Liberties, Civil Rights Section 1983, Disability Discrimination, Disabled Access, Disabled Rights, Discrimination, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Handicapped Rights, Human Rights, International Human Rights, Personal Rights, Public Interest Law, Race Discrimination, Reproductive Rights, Sex Discrimination, Womens Rights |
| Constitutional Law | Fifth Amendment Law, First Amendment Law, Fourth Amendment Law, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Religion, Media and First Amendment |
| Contracts | Contract Drafting, Commercial Contracts, Contract Fraud, Contract Litigation, International Commercial Contracts, International Contracts |
| Labor and Employment | Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination in Employment, Americans with Disabilities Act, Caregiver Discrimination, Child Labor Law, Civil Service, Confidentiality Agreements, Covenants Not To Compete, Employee Discipline, Employee Drug Testing, Employee Leasing, Employee Privacy, Employee Rights, Employer Intentional Torts, Employer Liability, Employer Rights, Employment Arbitration, Employment at Will, Employment Breach of Contract, Employment Civil Rights, Employment Claims, Employment Class Actions, Employment Contracts, Employment Disability Discrimination, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Employment Litigation, Employment Mediation, Employment Practices Liability Insurance, Employment Rights, Employment Termination, Equal Employment Opportunity Law, Executive Employment Law, Executive Severance Contracts, Executive Transfers, Fair Employment Practices, Fair Labor Standards, Family and Medical Leave Act, Federal Employment Law, Harassment, Human Resources Law, Labor Arbitration, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Minimum Wage Law, National Origin Discrimination, Negligent Hiring, Noncompete Litigation, Noncompetition and Non-Solicitation, Agreements, Outsourcing, Personnel Policies, Personnel Training, Pregnancy Discrimination, Prevailing Wage Litigation, Reductions in Force, Restrictive Covenants, Retaliatory Discharge, Sexual Harassment, Title VII Discrimination, Unfair Labor Practices, Uniformed Services Employment, and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), Wage and Hour Class Actions, Wage and Hour Law, WARN Act, Whistleblower Litigation, Workplace Violence, Wrongful Termination |
| Legal Malpractice | Legal Malpractice Defense, Legal Negligence, Legal Professional Liability |
| Litigation | Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Complex and Multi-District Litigation, Complex Litigation, Federal Civil Litigation, Federal Litigation, Long-Arm Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Trial Practice, U.S. Supreme Court Litigation |
| Personal Injury | Accidents, Animal Attacks, Aquatic Injuries, Automobile Accidents and Injuries, Automobile Negligence, Bicycle Accidents, Boating Accidents, Bodily Injury, Brain Injury, Bus Accidents, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Catastrophic Injury, Commercial Vehicle Liability, Dog Bites, Electrical Injury, Head Injury, Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries, Motorcycle Accidents, Neurolaw, Pedestrian Injuries, Personal Injury Appeals, Product Liability, Severe Burns, Sexual Abuse, Slip and Fall, Spinal Injury, Subway Accidents, Third Party Wrongful Death, Work Place Injury, Whiplash, Wrongful Death |
| Products Liability | Airbag Injury, All Terrain Vehicle Products Liability, Automotive Crashworthiness, Automotive Design Liability, Automotive Products Liability, Automotive Restraints, Automotive Warranty Law, Bicycle Products Liability, Biomedical Products Liability, Blood Bank Liability, Breach of Warranty, Breast Implant Litigation, Chemical Explosions, Chemical Products Liability, Dalkon Shield Litigation, Diet Drug Litigation, Drug and Medical Device Defense, Drug and Medical Device Litigation, Drug Contamination, Elevator Liability, Engineering Products Liability, Environmental Products Liability, Escalator Liability, Explosions, Firearms Litigation, Flammable Fabrics, Food Borne Disease, Food Products Liability, Gas Explosions, Heart Device Litigation, Heavy Equipment Products Liability, Industrial Products Liability, Lemon Law, Manufacturers Liability, Motorcycle Products Liability, Office Equipment Products Liability, Product Defects, Product Failure, Product Recall, Product Safety, Product Warning Labels, Products Liability Arbitration, Products Liability Defense, Products Liability Insurance Coverage, Products Liability Mediation, Products Liability Subrogation, Propane Products Liability, Recreational Products Liability, Recreational Vehicle Products Liability, Seat Belt Injury, Tire Defect Litigation, Tire/Rim Mismatch, Tobacco Litigation, Vaccine Injury, Vehicle Rollovers, Warranty Law, Welding Products Liability |
Jurisdictions
- Illinois
Employment History
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Partner | Miner, Barnhill & Galland
1981 - 2008
Concentration on employment discrimination and wage and hour individual cases and class actions for plaintiffs.
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General Counsel | ACORN Housing
2008 - 2011
General Counsel for not-for-profit mortgage counseling and housing development organization with 17 offices around the country and over 100 employees Responsible for all legal issues for the organization, including response to legislation cutting off federal funding to organizations that were "allies" of ACORN.
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Director Employment Opportunity Project/ Director Impact Litigation | Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
2011 - 2016
Supervision of all employment discrimination cases, including trying cases; development of wage theft clinic; project on police accountability; launch of educational equity program to provide representation for students facing school suspension or expulsion.
Education
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J.D. | Yale Law School
1978 - 1981
Moot court finalist; on brief in New Haven affirmative action case, White v. Wellington, 627 F.2d 582 (2d Cir. 1980).
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B.A. | Williams College
1974 - 1978
graduated summa cum laude; highest honors in History of Ideas
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Chicago, Illinois, Cook County
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