Marc R.Jacobs

Marc regularly helps employers insulate themselves against liability and claims by counseling them through employment-related problems and situations; analyzing employers' practices and procedures; negotiating and preparing employment, restrictive covenant, confidential information and severance agreements; writing employment policies and manuals; and conducting interactive supervisor training programs for clients. Marc represents client in numerous industries, including healthcare, aviation, hospitality, parking services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, education, specialty chemicals, and professional services.

Marc has successfully represented employers in employment and labor disputes before state and federal courts (at both the trial and appellate levels), arbitrators, mediators, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the US Department of Labor, and similar agencies throughout the United States.

Marc has successfully tried cases before juries, judges, administrative law judges and arbitrators and obtained multiple summary judgment decisions in discrimination and employment-related matters. He is also a skilled negotiator who has resolved numerous disputes at the table in collective bargaining and through one-on-one negotiations and alternative dispute resolution.

Marc is rated “AV” (the highest rating possible) by the Martindale-Hubbell Lexis/Nexis peer review system; is listed in Illinois Super Lawyers for Employment & Labor (Thomson Reuters) (2005-2006, 2008-2017, 2020); and is listed in the Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers (Legal Media Group). He is a sought after speaker and has spoken for organizations including the American Bar Association, National Academy of Arbitrators, National Public Employers Labor Relations Association, Human Resources Management Association of Chicago, and Chicago-Kent College of Law Institute for Law and the Workplace. Marc is the author of several articles on legal topics and was a Chapter Editor of the 2011 Supplement to the ABA/BNA treatise, How To Take A Case Before The NLRB. He also serves as co-chair of Seyfarth's audit response committee of the Firm’s Chicago Pro Bono Committee.