Kenneth F Sparks
USA Guide 2024
Band 3 : Labor & Employment
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About
Provided by Kenneth F Sparks
Practice Areas
He represents and advises private and public employers across a broad range of industries, with extensive experience working with health care organizations, in complicated labor law and litigation matters nationwide. Among his areas of concentration are union organizing and collective bargaining, including development and implementation of integrated responses to all of the litigation, publicity and strike matters that can and often do become a part of organizing and collective bargaining. He has negotiated numerous collective bargaining agreements, tried cases before the National Labor Relations Board, handled organizing and decertification campaigns and related litigation, managed injunction and other legal issues growing out of nationwide and local strikes, quelled unlawful secondary boycott campaigns and handled numerous labor-related litigation matters in state and federal courts.
Mr. Sparks also has extensive experience handling employment matters before federal and state courts and agencies, and counseling employers on how to avoid such litigation. His areas of practice include a wide variety of Title VII, ADEA, FMLA, ADA duty of fair representation and related discrimination lawsuits and noncompete agreement disputes, workplace defamation actions and wrongful-discharge matters.
Mr. Sparks is a member of the Illinois State and American Bar Associations. He is also a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and the Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois.
Professional Memberships
Member, Bar of the District of Columbia
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois
Chambers Review
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Kenneth Sparks continues to serve as chair of the traditional labor group at Vedder Price. He works on collective bargaining agreements, among other matters.
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Provided by Chambers
"Kenneth is an excellent lawyer."
"Kenneth is an excellent lawyer."
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