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Ross H. Friedman

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Ross H. Friedman counsels employers across a range of labor and employment issues and advises clients on issues related to business organizations and corporate transactions. With litigation experience before the National Labor Relations Board, he focuses on management-union relations, collective bargaining, and contract disputes involving grievance arbitration. Ross is a co-chair of Morgan Lewis’s Workforce Change Practice, which manages employment, labor, and benefits issues that arise from mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, startups, spinoffs, workforce reductions, shutdowns, outsourcing, offshoring, and other types of business restructuring.

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    Ross is also an experienced litigator. He advises employers in discrimination actions that arise under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and related statutes. When employers face benefits-related litigation that involves Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and alleged whistleblower claims asserted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), they turn to Ross to defend them.

    A contributing editor to The Developing Labor Law, published by the Labor and Employment Section of the American Bar Association, Ross has also authored or co-authored many articles on a variety of labor and employment law issues.

    Education

    • University of Chicago Law School, 2001, J.D.
    • University of Illinois, 1997, B.S.

    Admissions

    • Illinois
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
    • Illinois Supreme Court

    Awards and Affiliations

    Member, Practice Group of the Year, Employment, Law360 (2017)

    Labor & Employment Star, Midwest, Benchmark Labor & Employment (2018)

    Recommended, Labor and employment: Workplace and employment counseling, The Legal 500 US (2017, 2018)

    Recommended, Labor and employment: Labor-management relations, The Legal 500 US (2014–2017)

    Recognized, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin’s 40 under 40 (2015)

    Publications

    12/20/2017 - Trump National Labor Relations Board Reverses Major Obama-Era Decisions

    6/8/2017 - DOL Withdraws Independent Contractor and Joint Employer Guidance

    3/23/2017 - Recent Developments in the NLRB’s Joint and Single Employer Doctrines

    7/27/2016 - Charged Up and Ready to Go: What Employers Need to Know When Facing the NLRB

    1/21/2016 - DOL Issues Interpretation to Expand Joint-Employer Liability

    8/28/2015 - NLRB Vastly Expands Its Joint-Employer Standard

    12/15/2014 - NLRB Issues “Quickie” Election Rules

    12/12/2014 - NLRB Gives Employees Right to Use Employer Email for Union Organizing

    11/4/2014 - Employers: How Prepared Are You for Ebola?

    8/25/2014 - Chicago Litigation Departments of the Year: A Special Report

    7/1/2014 - Noel Canning: Recess Appointments and the Effect on the NLRB

    6/26/2014 - U.S. Supreme Court Issues Historic Noel Canning Decision

    5/8/2014 - Managing the Global Workforce Webinar Series 2014 – Cross-Border Transactional Due Diligence

    3/26/2014 - Labor Law Update

    3/3/2014 - Revisit Union Leave Policies After 7th Circ. Decision, Law360

    9/10/2013 - Developments in Arbitration Agreements and Class Action Waivers: A Practical Guide for Employers

    8/15/2013 - Arbitration Agreements with Class and Collective Action Waivers Enforced

    1/30/2013 - Social Media in 2013: Update for Employers

    9/27/2012 - The NLRB Wants to Review Your Employee Handbook: Should You Be Worried?

    11/30/2011 - How Recent NLRB Decisions and Rulemakings Will Promote Union Organizing: What Union and Nonunion Companies Need to Know

    8/22/2011 - Comments on the NLRB Proposed Rule Regarding Union Elections, submitted on behalf of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

    6/8/2011 - Social Media, Unions, and the NLRB

    6/8/2011 - Social Media, Unions, and the NLRB

    2010 - The NLRB and Managerial Discretion: Subcontracting, Relocations, Closings, Sales, Layoffs, and Technological Change (2d ed. 2010)

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    News

    10/16/2017 - Morgan Lewis Advises Aramark in $1 Billion Acquisition of AmeriPride Services

    5/25/2017 - Morgan Lewis Chicago Office Recognized for Pro Bono Contributions to Settlement Assistance Program

    2/29/2016 - Chicago Labor & Employment Team Named Litigation Department of the Year

    11/12/2015 - Morgan Lewis Advises Merck in Merck Animal Health's Acquisition of Harrisvaccines

    11/9/2015 - Morgan Lewis Advises Aclara Technologies on Acquisition of GE Electricity Meters Business

    10/7/2015 - Morgan Lewis Labor & Employment Partner Recognized in Chicago Daily Law Bulletin ’s 40 Under 40

    9/2/2014 - Morgan Lewis Advises Buckeye Partners in $860M Purchase of 80% Interest in South Texas Assets

    8/26/2014 - Morgan Lewis’s Chicago Labor and Employment Practice Honored by The National Law Journal

    8/25/2014 - Morgan Lewis Represents APM Terminals North America in Sale of Pioneer U.S. Container Terminal

    8/25/2014 - Chicago Litigation Departments of the Year: A Special Report

    2/1/2013 - 5th Circ. Poised To Weigh NLRB Class Waiver Ban, Law360

    12/21/2012 - NLRB Ruling Ends Dues Checkoff As Employer Bargaining Tool, Law360

    7/2/2012 - Morgan Lewis Promotes Twelve Lawyers to Partnership

    3/5/2012 - Morgan Lewis Advises Sun Capital Affiliate — Raybestos Powertrain — in Sale to Monomoy Capital Partners

    7/15/2011 - Morgan Lewis Serves as Co-Counsel to BHP Billiton on $12.1 Billion Acquisition of Petrohawk

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    Events

    3/20/2018 - 14th Annual Retail and Ecommerce Roundtables

    1/4/2018 - NLRB End of Term Roundup Extravaganza

    4/15/2015 - Employer Work Rules and Handbooks: Do Your Employment Policies Meet the New Federal Guidelines?

    5/8/2014 - Managing the Global Workforce Webinar Series 2014 - Cross-Border Transactional Due Diligence

    3/26/2014 - Labor Law Update

    9/10/2013 - Developments in Arbitration Agreements and Class Action Waivers: A Practical Guide for Employers

    1/30/2013 - Social Media in 2013: Update for Employers

    11/30/2011 - How Recent NLRB Decisions and Rulemakings Will Promote Union Organizing: What Union and Nonunion Companies Need to Know

    6/8/2011 - Social Media, Unions, and the NLRB