People: Isabel Lazar, Associate

Isabel Lazar

Associate

Chicago
Direct: (312) 460-5326
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Ms. Lazar is an associate in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and a member of the firm's Labor & Employment Department. Her practice focuses on the representation of management in a variety of employment law matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Lazar served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Ronald Guzman of the Northern District of Illinois. Ms. Lazar also worked as a paralegal for several years before law school, and as a summer associate in the labor and employment practice group at Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Ms. Lazar is an associate in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and a member of the firm's Labor & Employment Department. Her practice focuses on the representation of management in a variety of employment law matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Lazar served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Ronald Guzman of the Northern District of Illinois. Ms. Lazar also worked as a paralegal for several years before law school, and as a summer associate in the labor and employment practice group at Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

Education

  • J.D., Loyola University, Chicago, School of Law (2009)
    magna cum laude
    John C. Hayes Scholarship Award for attaining the highest grade point average in the third year
    CALI Awards in: Appellate Advocacy, Employment Law Counseling and Business Organizations
    Champion, Wagner National Labor and Employment Moot Court Competition, 2008-2009
    Staff Editor, Consumer Law Review, 2007-2008
  • B.A., Robert Morris University, (2003)
    magna cum laude

Admissions

  • Illinois

Courts

  • Illinois Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Affiliations

  • American Bar Association
  • Chicago Bar Association

Publications

  • Chapter Contributor, “Chapter 7 - Defending Opt-Out Class Actions Under State Wage and Hour Laws,” Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, ALM Law Journal Press (2012). Definitive treatise on wage and hour litigation.