Sharilee K.Smentek

Counsel

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Sharilee has substantial experience representing and counseling clients in a broad range of matters, including labor and employment litigation and compliance, employee discipline and terminations, and workplace investigations. Her experience in employment litigation matters includes claims brought under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Section 1983, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and the Illinois Trade Secrets Act. Sharilee also has substantial experience with other business-related litigation, including contract disputes, business torts, and restrictive covenant disputes, among others. Sharilee has represented clients in a full range of matters through all aspects of litigation—from drafting initial pleadings and emergency requests for injunctive relief to successfully trying a number of bench and jury trials, and handling appeals, arbitrations, and mediations.

Sharilee was listed in Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars - Business Litigation (Thomson Reuters) (2010, 2013-2017) and a Law Bulletin Emerging Lawyer in Illinois - Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Defense (2015-2016).

  • JD, DePaul University College of Law

    Summa cum laude
    The Order of the Coif
    Phi Kappa Phi Academic Fraternity
    Chicago Bar Association’s Federal Tax Committee Award

  • BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Finance

    Nancy Holmes Johnson Scholarship Award

  • Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Illinois
  • US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • US Court of Federal Claims
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • US District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin

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