Nadine C. Abrahams is a Shareholder in the Chicago, IL office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and serves as the Chicago office’s Litigation Manager.
Ms. Abrahams is an experienced employment law litigator. She has been based in Chicago her entire career and has extensive experience litigating all forms of labor and employment matters throughout the Midwest in federal courts, state courts and before administrative agencies.
Ms. Abrahams’ practice covers the spectrum of employment matters including claims such as race, age, religion, national origin, disability and sex discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliatory discharge, Family and Medical Leave, and wage and hour issues. She also handles collective actions and multi-plaintiff litigation involving both private parties and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Abrahams has broad experience with the EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as state and local labor and employment agencies throughout the United States.
Ms. Abrahams advises and counsels clients on a variety of employment practices, including employment handbooks and policies. She also conducts employee training seminars and internal harassment investigations.
Prior to joining Jackson Lewis, Ms. Abrahams was a partner with another prominent national labor and employment firm. Still earlier, Ms. Abrahams was a senior counsel for the Employment Litigation Division of the City of Chicago Law Department Counsel.
Ms. Abrahams is admitted to practice in the state of Illinois. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S Supreme Court; the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of Illinois; the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana; the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; and the Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Ms. Abrahams has been selected as an Illinois Super Lawyer in 2009 and 2013 – 2015.
Ms. Abrahams is a member of the Defense Research Institute’s Employment Law Division, and the Labor and Employment Law Committees of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Associations.
Ms. Abrahams received her B.A. in 1989 from the University of Chicago, where she graduated with honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her J.D. in 1992 from the New York University School of Law.
Founded in 1958, Jackson Lewis is dedicated to representing management exclusively in workplace law. With 800 attorneys practicing in major locations throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, Jackson Lewis is included in the AmLaw 100 and Global 100 rankings of law firms. The firm’s wide range of specialized areas of practice provides the resources to address every aspect of the employer/employee relationship. Jackson Lewis has one of the most active employment litigation practices in the world, with a current caseload of over 6,500 litigations and approximately 650 class actions.
Jackson Lewis is a founding member of L&E Global Employers’ Counsel Worldwide, an alliance of premier employment law boutique firms and practices in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific Region
