- MisdemeanorsPolice Misconduct Litigation: Attorney Taren has recently obtained a $450,000 recovery on behalf of a military veteran who was beaten by prison correctional guards after being arrested for a misdemeanor. He has been counsel for two of the Fairbanks Four, seeking justice after spending 18 years in prison for a murder that they did not commit.
- Murder
- Employment DiscriminationIn the area of employment law, Mr. Taren has successfully represented a nationwide class of African-American FBI agents in a ground breaking employment discrimination case and has extensive litigation experience in the areas of labor and employment law, including race, age, disability and sex discrimination cases, whistleblower litigation, wage and hour cases and executive severance and contract matters. He has successfully litigated one of the first cases under the Genetic Information Discrimination Act. Additionally, Mr. Taren has handled numerous individual and class action arbitration matters.
- Employment ContractSeverance Negotiations and Executive Contracts: Jeffrey L. Taren continues to negotiate severance agreements and employment contracts for individuals in the Chicago area at all levels of employment. He has negotiated million-dollar severance agreements and executive contracts for employees in Fortune 500 companies and not-for-profit corporations.
- Employment LitigationMichelle Mortensen v. Menards, Inc. AAA Case No. 51 160 00578 13 (2014) (K,T & G lawyers recently secured a $220,000 award, which included $75,000 in punitive damages, from an arbitrator in Illinois on behalf of a former Department Manager for a Menards store, who claimed she was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for complaining about sex discrimination on the job. Menards requires all of its employees to agree as a condition of employment to arbitrate their employment claims rather than proceed to court. In his award, the arbitrator found that Menards’ purportedly anonymous hotline which employees are encouraged to use to air their employment complaints, is not actually anonymous at all. The former Department Manager was fired four days after she made her supposedly anonymous complaint to Headquarters.)
- Severance Agreement
- Sexual HarassmentKaren Stance v. Department of Veteran Affairs, EEOC Case No. 440-2006-00089X (July 31, 2007) (Administrative Law Judge awards complainant, a nurse employed by the VA, over $75,000 in back pay plus interest and $25,000 for emotional injuries plus over $50,000 in attorneys’ fees resulting from respondent’s termination of complainant in retaliation for her complaint of sexual harassment.) *
- Personal InjuryMcKinley v. Pratt, 89 C-03564 (S.D.Il.); ($1.2 million jury verdict in favor of injured railroad worker against his former attorney for legal malpractice)
- Disability DiscriminationEmployment Discrimination: During his career Mr. Taren has successfully pursued claims alleging race, sex, age, national origin and disability discrimination in employment. Highlights include...