
Litigation and appeal involving the employer/employee relationship make
up a sizable part of Adamski & Conti's practice.
Diligence, aggressiveness, and sensitivity contribute to our many successes,
which include negotiating lucrative severance packages to trying and winning
employment disputes for employers and employees.
Adamski & Conti handles:
- Defending and challenging restrictive covenants (covenants not to
compete) and trade secret agreements for medical professionals, salespersons,
employment field search firms, personnel firms, and financial industry
employees.
- Representing doctors in disputes with hospitals, including privilege
and contractual matters.
- Defense and prosecution of cases of discrimination
based upon race, sex, disability, or national origin.
- Defense and prosecution of sexual harassment and battery.
- Litigating overtime and employee/independent contractor issues.
Cases of Note
- Dozens of cases involving physician/hospital peer review disputes.
- Argued successfully before the Illinois Supreme
Court to change the law regarding women sexually harassed and battered
at the workplace.
- Obtained severance package in excess of $200,000 on behalf of a journalist
for a national news magazine.
- Obtained severance package in excess of $100,000 on behalf of an employee
of a internationally-known Japanese manufacturer.
- Obtained settlement in excess of $150,000 on behalf of an advertising
executive against his national public relations firm.
- Obtained severance package in excess of $100,000 on behalf of a financial
professional against a top investment company.
- Successfully dismissed on summary judgment numerous claims against
employers for sexual and racial harassment.
- Obtained the largest settlement by a lawyer against her law firm in
a defamation case.
- Represented lawyers, doctors, and business professionals in partnership
dissolutions.
Representing Professionals
Adamski & Conti has a long history of representing doctors, accountants,
financial advisors and other professionals in a wide variety of matters
from licensure and disciplinary matters to disputes with their employees/employers
and patients/clients.
Concerning lawyers and other business professionals, Adamski & Conti
defends and prosecutes claims for professional negligence, fraud, defamation,
and breach of fiduciary duty and routinely represents lawyers before the
Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
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