Stephen D. Erf 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 leadership transition. He has worked with clients in a wide range of industries, including health care, education, construction, manufacturing, professional services, social services, food products, chemicals and transportation.

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• Served as lead counsel and secured a defense judgment against a “stalking horse” plaintiff in a suit seeking a temporary early retirement supplemental benefit following a reduction in force
• Served as lead counsel and secured a permanent injunction against a former officer who leaked privileged materials and disparaged a former company, including disgorgement of all severance pay
• Negotiated an emergency plant closing and consolidation with a separate plant, including providing “short” Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices with payments for deficient notice period

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• The Best Lawyers in America 2013 to 2021, Employment Law – Management
• Chambers USA 2005 to 2019
• The Legal 500

Education
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, JD, cum laude, 1978
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA, 1975

Admissions
Illinois

Courts / Agencies
US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

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