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Jeffrey Grant Brown

Chicago, Illinois

Phone: (312) 789-9700
Fax: (312) 782-4519
Email: Contact Me

Jeff Brown is principal and founder of Jeffrey Grant Brown, P.C., a Chicago law firm, with a practice concentrating in Employment Law and Litigation. Mr. Brown is a 1986 graduate of DePaul University College Of Law. He has represented employees and employers in employment contract drafting and dispute resolution; discrimination in the areas of gender, age, disability, national origin, religion and race; anti-competition contracts; defamation; retaliatory discharge; and other claims related to employment law and litigation. Mr. Brown is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and the Illinois Chapter of NELA. He is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association Labor and Employment Law specialty panel. He has successfully represented plaintiffs in several employment-law related class actions, including the Hooters Restaurant gender discrimination case. Mr. Brown is also Brown a member of the legal committee for a Chicago area charitable organization.

Areas of Practice

  • Litigation & Appeals
  • Class Actions
  • Entertainment, Sports & Leisure Law
  • Art
  • Entertainment
  • Federal Trial Practice

Litigation Percentage

  • 75% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois, 1986
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1990
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1986
  • U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 1998
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 1999
  • U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1998

Education

  • De Paul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois
    J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence

  • Michigan State College, East Lansing, Michigan, 1983
    A.B., Bachelor of Arts
    Major: Business Administration

Published Works

  • Watkins v. City of Chicago, 992 F.Supp. 971 (N.D.1998)
  • J.F. Walker Co., Inc. v. Commercial Wholesale, 658 N.E.2d 542 (Ill. App. 1st Dist. 1993)
  • Menke v. Monchecourt, 17 F.3d 1007 (7th Cir. 1994)

Representative Cases

Classes/Seminars Taught

  • Various Client Seminars in Labor and Employment Law

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • National Employment Lawyers' Association
    Member

  • Illinois Employment Lawyers' Association
    Member

  • Chicago Bar Association
    Member, Employment and Labor Law Specialty Panel

Birth Information

  • June 24, 1961

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