Employee to Lawyer PodRiver

Barbara J. Bell, Attorney at Law, fills a valuable niche helping police officers, firefighters and municipal employees gain access to retirement pensions. Ms. Bell works with individuals as well as with labor unions. In addition, she provides professional estate planning services for individuals and assists family members through the probate process.

Learn More:
https://www.bjbelllaw.com/

Bryan has practiced employment law in Chicago his entire 20+ career, representing predominantly employees for over half that time. He has helped employees successfully transition jobs and recover for their losses without ever filing legal claims. He also has helped employees win multi-million dollar verdicts and awards after litigating vigorously as part of a team of attorneys. And he has helped companies comply with employment laws and defended wrongful termination actions.

Bryan quit his first grocery store job after being refused a raise up to minimum wage and being told he was still expected to (illegally) operate the meat grinder (he was underage). He later drafted the employee handbook at his college grocery store job – working his way up from stocker to shift supervisor. He’s always been passionate about ensuring equality and civil rights – studying those issues extensively in college.

Learn More: https://www.jbryanwoodlaw.com/

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Naomi Frisch is a Chicago-based attorney, musician, and community leader. She is a labor and employment lawyer, working on worker and union side cases since 2018. Frisch holds a Juris Doctorate, Magna cum Laude, from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Legal Career:
As a lawyer, Frisch focuses on labor and employment law, representing workers and unions in various cases. She has been working in this field since May 2018.

Music Career:
Frisch is also a talented musician, holding principal Oboe positions in the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra. She has a robust career as a freelance orchestral musician, soloist, and chamber music collaborator. Frisch also enjoys coaching woodwind chamber music for the award-winning Midwest Young Artists Conservatory.

Community Involvement:
Frisch has served on the board of the Regional Orchestra Players’ Association since 2012. She is also involved in various community activities, including working as a PILI intern at the Legal Assistance Foundation in Chicago.

Get tickets to her August Performance:
AUGUST 15, 2024
SHIFTING WINDS
Our IPO Woodwind Quintet, led by IPO principal oboist Naomi Bensdorf Frisch, closes out the 2024 IPO Summer @ Olympia Fields Country Club chamber series.
https://ipomusic.org/ipo-summer-olympia-fields-2024/

Founding Partner Fish Potter Bolaños, P.C. Nieves represents workers in wage and hour, False Claims Act, and employment discrimination and retaliation litigation. She has significant litigation experience at the state and federal level, as well as with local administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board. Nieves’ experience includes representation of single plaintiffs, class and collective actions at all stages of litigation, and she has litigating False Claims Act cases and large class action cases with exceptional results, including a $14 million settlement in a class action sexual harassment case in Brown, et al. v. Cook County, et al., No. 17-cv-8085 (N.D. Ill. 2020).

Learn more:

https://www.fishlawfirm.com/

For Nela Nationals Convention information:

https://www.nela.org/programs-events/convention/

This week Amit and Max talk about some federal changes that you might want to know about.

Check out Amit's Shout Out's:

National Domestic Violence Hotline
https://www.thehotline.org/

Chicago Debates
https://www.chicagodebates.org/

The managing partner of Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group LLC and the author of two investigative books, Philip Becnel has been a private detective for twenty-five years. His first book, Introduction to Conducting Private Investigations, is on its third edition and has sold over 10,000 copies. His second book, Principles of Investigative Documentation, came out in its second edition in January 2024. Philip’s firm specializes in plaintiff-side employment litigation and qui tam investigations, but he investigates “anything worth investigating.” He has testified as an expert witness, including about the reasonable standards of documenting an internal investigation. He has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from George Mason University and a master’s in criminal justice from Boston University. He is a licensed private investigator in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.