Principal
Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLP
Chicago, Illinois
A Chicago native, Alisa Arnoff is a founding member of the Chicago law firm of Scalambrino & Arnoff, LLP, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year. Ms. Arnoff concentrates her practice in the areas of employment and labor law, representing privately and publicly held companies throughout the country. She has a keen interest in Fire and Emergency Services, after an unexpected invitation to speak at FRI in 2010 on a landmark United States Supreme Court case impacting firefighters. Since then, Alisa has spent much of her time providing training to various departments and at various Fire/EMS conferences on personnel matters such as reducing discrimination, harassment, retaliation and bullying in Fire/EMS; properly conducting investigations; introducing new Company officers to the vagaries of of employment law; and how to be an effective witness. Alisa also counsels firefighters throughout the country, particularly female firefighters, in connection with systemic issues that still impact Fire/EMS. Her passion is developing interactive, informative and useful personnel training programs within Fire/EMS to improve health and safety, operations, efficiency and public perception.
She also provides preventative counseling in avoiding and handling employee disputes. A big part of her practice is consulting with clients concerning everyday workplace problems, such as recruitment and selection, employee morale, absenteeism, productivity and separation from employment. Her litigation practice entails representation in employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract and wrongful discharge disputes, wage and unemployment security and wage-hour proceedings, among other matters. Other law firms regularly retain Ms. Arnoff to conduct workplace-related investigations. She was elected to the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in 2010. She was the first woman to be appointed as the Editor in Chief of the Illinois Bar Journal. She speaks regularly on topics of labor and employment law throughout the country, and has been repeatedly recognized by Super Lawyers as one of the top labor and employment lawyers, as well as one of the top female lawyers, in Illinois.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Thursday, August 25, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Friday, August 26, 2022
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM