Stanley Eisenstein

Experience

Stanley Eisenstein works closely with our diverse labor union clientele. He strongly believes that counseling, advising and educating our labor clientele is a critical component of the firm's successful labor practice over many decades. He handles a wide range of employment-related disputes from discrimination to benefits and has represented unions and trust funds, individuals and others. During his more than 30 year career, Stanley has handled literally hundreds of Complaints issued by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for our many labor union clients, which is an unprecedented number for any labor attorney, on either the management or labor side. He was actively involved as a primary litigator for the UAW before the NLRB and numerous Federal and State courts in the unprecedented labor dispute between the UAW and Caterpillar Corp. during the 1990's. He has successfully handled individual discrimination cases, including achieving a major jury verdict against United Airlines in a disability discrimination case. Gile v. United Airlines.

In the early 1990s, Stanley authored "Overview of Fair Labor Standards Act as it Applies to Public Employment" for the Illinois Public Employee Relations Report. He has written numerous labor and employment law articles and case law updates in Illinois State Bar Association publications. He is a speaker on a multitude of labor issues for such organizations as the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education; Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology; Chicago Bar Association; American Arbitration Association and Illinois State Bar Association. He is a past chairperson of Labor and Employment Law Section Council of the Illinois State Bar, and remains an active member of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the ISBA. He was honored with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Illinois State Bar Association in 1994 and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association from 1987-1988.

Stanley was again selected by his peers as an Illinois Super Lawyer for 2009 in the field of Labor and Employment Law. What makes this recognition even more impressive is that out of approximately 100 labor and employment lawyers selected, the vast majority are management lawyers. He is one of only a handful of union or employee lawyers so honored.

Stanley earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign in 1968, with high honors. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1973, he was granted his Juris Doctor from the same institution. He is admitted to the Illinois State Bar, the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th and 9th Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the Northern District of Indiana. Stanley is married with three daughters, and is a devoted fan of the Fighting Illini.