Emily T. Jastromb
Emily T. Jastromb focuses her practice on strategic counseling on a wide range of complex and day-to-day employment matters. Emily regularly advises clients on a variety of workplace issues and personnel decisions, including hiring, personnel policies, compensation, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, leaves and accommodations, internal investigations, performance management, discipline, and separations.
Emily also represents clients in pre-litigation disputes and agency proceedings involving claims arising under federal and state equal employment opportunity laws, whistleblower-protection laws, and other employment laws.
In addition, Emily conducts workplace investigations, negotiates and drafts employee separation agreements, and provides training on various employment topics. She also counsels employers on strategic employment-related initiatives, such as workforce change (both reductions in force and corporate transactions), pay transparency, and diversity and inclusion matters.
Emily also brings in-house legal experience, having served as senior counsel of employment law at a global professional services firm for several years.
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, 2016, J.D., cum laude
- Emory University, 2011, B.A., international studies
- Illinois
- US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- US District Court for the District of Colorado
Recognized, Rising Star, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) (2020)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Employment, Law360 (2017, 2019)
Recipient, Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award (2011)