Lawrence J. Casazza

Shareholder

T: 312-609-7770 F: 312-609-5005

Chicago

Lawrence J. Casazza represents a wide variety of businesses and public sector clients in labor and employment matters, including NLRB matters, collective bargaining, employment discrimination, employment-at-will, and labor arbitration.  He also has served as an arbitrator and a mediator.  He is a seasoned negotiator who has successfully handled negotiations for bargaining units as large as 8,500 employees.

Mr. Casazza was selected by his peers in the 2006 and 2007 Leading Lawyer Network Surveys as one of the top 100 lawyers in Illinois representing business in any capacity.  He also has been elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal : USA – Management Labour & Employment (2008 edition), the National Registry of Who’s Who , and as an Illinois Super Lawyer.  He served three years as the Management Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Committee on ADR in Labor and Employment Law, serves on the Leading Lawyer Network Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He serves on Vedder Price’s Executive Committee and its Board of Directors.

Mr. Casazza is a frequent lecturer on labor law matters, having spoken at numerous programs including those conducted by the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section, the ABA Labor Arbitration Advocacy Program, the ABA and Northwestern University Law School National Labor and Employment Law Institute, the University of Chicago CEO Roundtable, the Chicago-Kent College of Law Public Sector Labor Law Program, Federal Publications Seminars, the Chicago Bar Association, the Management Association of Illinois, the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the Illinois Municipal League, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and Fulcrum.

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• Vedder Price Associate Appointed to Associate Board of Chicago Committee on Minorities
• Vedder Price Awards 2007 Diversity Scholarship
• Vedder Price Diversity Scholarship Awarded
• Vedder Price Announces Diversity Scholarship

• Arbitration / Grievances / Mediation
• Collective Bargaining
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Labor & Employment Law
• Labor Relations
• OFCCP
• Strike Support
• Supervisor Training

• Mr. Casazza was named one of the Top 100 Business Lawyers in Illinois (2006 Survey by Leading Lawyers Network).

• J.D., Loyola University of Chicago, 1972 (Note Editor, Loyola Law Journal)
• B.A., Miami University, 1968

• Illinois, 1972
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1972
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1981

• Former Management Co-chair, Committee on ADR in Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association
• Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation