Biography

Ms. McLaughlin is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and former national Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department.  She is engaged in a broad-based employment and labor relations law practice, specializing in federal and state court and administrative agency employment litigation.  Ms. McLaughlin also regularly advises employers on how to avoid litigation through the use of employee education and training and effective employment policies.

Ms. McLaughlin is a frequent lecturer on a wide variety of employment and labor law topics.  Ms. McLaughlin has served as a guest lecturer for the American Bar Association, National Employment Law Institute, Society for Human Resource Management, Corporate Counsel Institute, American Arbitration Association, American Hospital Association, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Illinois State Bar Association, Hotel Human Resources Association of Chicago, Hotel Employers Labor Relations Association, and Metropolitan Chicago Health Care Council.  She has written extensively on employment issues and co-authored “A Client’s Guide to the ADA, FMLA and Workers’ Compensation,” The Journal of the American Corporate Counsel Association as well as “Training Becomes Important Step to Avoid Liability,” The National Law Journal.  She also co-authored “The Family and Medical Leave Act” and "Employee Selection Procedures" chapters in Federal Employment Laws and Regulations and Employment Discrimination — How to Comply, both R.A. Apland publications.  She also authored “Physicians and the ADA: Examining Current Policies,” Medical Staff Leader, “Status of Staff Physicians Uncertain under the ADA,” Quality Management Update, and “Physicians and the ADA,” Hospitals Magazine.  She is a member of the American Bar Association, Labor and Employment and Litigation Sections and the Chicago Bar Association.

She co-authored comments to the EEOC’s proposed regulations for the ADA as well as the ADA Amendments Act, and comments to the DOL’s proposed regulations for the FMLA on behalf of national employer coalitions.  She is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost ADA and FMLA experts.

Education

Admissions

• Illinois

Courts

• Trial Bar, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits