Marisel A. Hernandez

Marisel A. Hernandez is a graduate of New York University School of Law. She worked at the National Labor Relations Board in New York and Chicago, and in the Chicago office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission prior to joining the firm in 1988.

Ms. Hernandez represents public and private labor clients, including United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1546 in Chicago, various Amalgamated Transit Union locals, Painters District Council No. 30, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, and the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund on a variety of issues in state and federal court and before administrative agencies, such as the EEOC and the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

She also provides advice and handles personnel matters. She advises union clients on a daily basis regarding contract interpretation, grievances, arbitrations, unfair labor practices, organizing and representation matters. Ms. Hernandez negotiates agreements on behalf of employee benefit funds with service providers and assists with the negotiation of investment and investment-related contracts.

Ms. Hernandez has tried jury cases in federal court on behalf of individual plaintiffs in employment discrimination matters and has been first chair at trials involving the Fair Labor Standards Act. She also handles individual and class action cases relating to the Family & Medical Leave Act and Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions.

Ms. Hernandez is fluent in Spanish. She is admitted to practice in New York (1983), New Jersey (1983), Illinois (1985), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal trial bar.

Ms. Hernandez sits on the Board of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School located in Pilsen and Little Village in Chicago.