Caroline Kane

Illinois

Franczek P.C.
300 S. Wacker Drive
Suite 3400
Chicago, IL 60606

Tel: 312-786-6103

Email: ckk@franczek.com
Web: www.franczek.com

Professional Biography

Caroline Kane is a Partner at Franczek P.C. and serves as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. She regularly counsels employers on various labor and employment related issues arising throughout all stages of the employment relationship.

Caroline represents clients in litigation matters before state and federal trial and appellate courts, and in administrative hearings before state and federal agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights. Caroline also counsels and represents employers in traditional labor matters including collective-bargaining, union organizing campaigns, grievance arbitrations, and matters before federal and state labor boards.

She also provides clients with proactive counseling in drafting and implementing employment related policies to ensure compliance with various state and federal laws. She also assists clients with transactional matters including drafting and negotiating employment agreements, as well as separation agreements.

Caroline conducts training for both managerial and non-managerial employees on personnel policies and relevant laws, including policies related to the prevention of discrimination and retaliation. She advises clients on conducting investigations into employee complaints, particularly in the context of harassment.

Caroline graduated magna cum laude from DePaul University College of Law, where she was elected to Order of the Coif.  While at DePaul, Caroline served on the editorial board of the DePaul Law Review and was the recipient of the Presidential Service Award for volunteer work completed while in law school.

Bar & Court Admissions

  • Illinois
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • Central District of Illinois

Education

  • J.D., magna cum laude, DePaul University College of Law, 2016,
  • B.A., B.S., cum laude, Loyola University Chicago, 2013, (sociology, criminal justice, and criminology)

Publications

The Employment Law Practice

Franczek helps employers manage the often complicated, sometimes challenging relationships with the people who make their work possible. Sometimes that means working behind the scenes as confidential advisers to Human Resources professionals dealing with complicated employee relations issues. Sometimes it means representing an employer at the bargaining table during union negotiations or helping a client weather a labor dispute. Sometimes it means vigorously defending an employer’s interests in court, at an arbitration hearing, or during a government audit or investigation.

Franczek is Chicago’s labor and employment law firm. Clients are key players in the civic, cultural, and economic life of Chicago and its suburbs, the state of Illinois, and the Midwest. They include some of the largest employers in the state, and five of the ten largest employers in the City of Chicago. Franczek has negotiated contracts with virtually every major union in the Chicago metropolitan area, including the largest bargaining units in the state.

The firm’s labor and employment clients include local businesses, multinational corporations, non-profit organizations, public and private colleges and universities, school districts and private schools, municipalities, and other government agencies. Every organization that the firm represents is unique, and the breadth and depth of Franczek’s practice helps the firm better represent and advise each client they serve.

About Franczek P.C.

In the 30 years since the firm was formed, Franczek have grown into one of the premier labor, employment, and education practices in the country. Clients include Fortune 100 companies and some of the largest public-sector entities in the United States as well as scores of small, medium, and large businesses and educational institutions.

The firm counsels, advises, and represents employers across the United States. The firm capably staff the largest and most complex cases for clients of all sizes while offering responsive day-to-day consultation on more routine matters.

As a mid-size law firm, Franczek provides a personal approach and exceptional value by focusing on select areas of law and doing them exceedingly well. The firm’s personable, talented, and highly skilled attorneys and depth of experience in the firm’s core practice areas means they can provide you an unparalleled quality of service.