Stephen D. Erf is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Chicago office. Stephen focuses his practice on civil rights and labor/employment counseling and litigation, restrictive covenants, wage and hour, union organizing, collective bargaining, employment discrimination, wrongful discharge and public accommodations. He has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, including health care, education, construction, manufacturing, service, food, social service, chemical and transportation. Stephen has been recognized as a leading employment lawyer in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has also been ranked by The Legal 500 United States as one of the leading lawyers in his field.
Stephen is a member of the bar of the State of Illinois, U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Central and Northern District of Illinois (trial bar), the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin and the Western District of Michigan, the Northern District of Texas, the Middle District of Florida, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Seventh Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association.
Co-author of a book on labor and employment issues arising in the health care field, Stephen has also contributed articles on such matters as disability discrimination and no fault insurance to various publications, including the Loyola Law Journal.
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 1978
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.A., 1975
