Mary Smigielski

Biography

Mary A. Smigielski is a partner at Lewis Brisbois, the sixth largest law firm in the country, and head of its Employment & Labor Practice in Chicago.  She is also co-chair of the firm’s Illinois Biometric Information Privacy (BIPA) Practice.  Ms. Smigielski routinely represents employers in class, collective and single-plaintiff employment litigation in State and Federal Courts, running the gamut from sexual harassment and discrimination to wage and hour litigation. She has appeared in courts across the United States. Ms. Smigielski has a nationwide counseling practice to address employee relations and policy issues and conducts sexual harassment and other types of training as well as sensitive workplace investigations, including at the C-Suite level. In her BIPA practice, she manages compliance and defends class actions for alleged violations of Illinois’ unique biometric privacy act, which presently provides the only private right of action in the nation for biometric violations.
 
Immediately prior to joining Lewis Brisbois, Ms. Smigielski spent nearly a decade in-house at a multi-national, Fortune 50 company where she was responsible for all aspects of employment law for over 100,000 employees in all 50 states and off shore. This unique experience makes her well suited to partner with all levels of leadership to achieve complex business objectives, define, assess and control legal risk, and implement workplace policies and best practices.  Ms. Smigielski is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and member of the Illinois and California bars.

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: CA, IL