Brian D. McCarthy counsels management in compliance and pre-litigation preventative measures, and defends private and public sector management clients in all aspects of labor and employment law, including matters of discrimination and harassment, disability and leave management, ERISA and benefits litigation, defamation, negligent hiring/retention, and restrictive covenant matters. He appears regularly in the state and federal trial courts, and numerous state and local fair employment agencies. He is admitted to the state courts of Illinois, the general and specialty Trial Bar of the Northern District of Illinois, the Central and Southern Districts of Illinois, Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Mr. McCarthy has also represented employers in the Illinois Court of Appeals, Illinois Supreme Court, and the Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits.
Mr. McCarthy joined Franczek Sullivan P.C. in July 2006. Prior to that, he practiced management-side labor and employment law with Jackson Lewis, LLP (1999–2006), where he was the Editor of The Midwest Employer. Mr. McCarthy earned his law degree, with a concentration in Advocacy and Dispute Resolution, from the John Marshall Law School where he served as Executive Production Editor of the Journal of Computer & Information Law and became a National Finalist in the Evans Constitutional Moot Court, arguing to several Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He graduated from California State University in 1993, with honors in his concentrations of Human Resource Management and Organizational Theory. Mr. McCarthy is a member of the Chicago Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section, where he has been a guest speaker on a number of occasions. He was a contributing editor for the HR Comply series of state and federal employment law manuals for Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, and a contributing author to A Jury Management Manual.
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