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Mike Duffee represents management clients in a wide variety of labor and employment matters and related litigation. He has specific experience handling matters particular to clients in the construction industry, including recognitional picketing, secondary boycotts, prevailing wage issues, fringe benefit claims and other related issues. As a part of his construction industry practice, Mike has worked with several multi-employer associations and is management counsel to a number of Taft-Hartley multi-employer fringe benefit funds. He also advises many clients in the public sector, including park districts, housing authorities, and other governmental entities. He regularly practices before state and federal courts, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and numerous state administrative agencies.
Since 1991, Mike has represented the City of Chicago in its contract negotiations with 20,000 trade and clerical employees, where he has successfully negotiated numerous work rule and health care plan changes which have resulted in millions of dollars of savings to the City.
He regularly lectures on labor and equal employment matters to university, business, governmental and professional groups. Mike was a Contributing Editor to The Developing Labor Law, Third Edition. Mike is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America and is AV® Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Prior to its merger with Ford & Harrison, he worked at Matkov Salzman in Chicago for thirteen years. Apart from practicing law, Mike is active in the Boy Scouts of America, serving as Council President for the Calumet Council in Munster, Indiana (2000-2003), and currently as Area Vice President for Area 3 of the Central Region. He is a member of the Chicago and American Bar Associations, including the Labor and Employment Law Section. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and the District of Columbia Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (including the Trial Bar), the Northern District of Indiana and the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
During law school, Mike served as Notes and Comments Editor for the Northwestern University Law Review.
Education
Northwestern University School of Law
J.D., magna cum laude, 1977
DePaul University
B.A., with highest honors, 1974
Bar Admissions
Illinois
Practice Areas
Arbitration
Collective Bargaining/Contract Negotiations
Employment Law
Labor Relations
Labor Union Organizing (NLRB)
Litigation
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
Unfair Labor Practices.
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