As a member of the Firm's Labor and Employment group, Clay Bennett has many years of experience representing employers in every area of labor and employment law. His clients have included manufacturers, not-for-profit corporations, hospitals, home healthcare service providers, and real estate and development organizations.
Mr. Bennett brings with him experience representing employers in all areas of labor and employment law, including union avoidance, unionization elections, NLRB practice, collective bargaining, strike management, arbitrations, wage and hour law, OSHA practice, affirmative action, employment-at-will cases and discrimination (race, sex, national origin, religion, age, handicap) cases, from initial agency investigations through court proceedings.
His OSHA practice includes advising employers on hazard avoidance and inspections. He also has extensive trial experience before the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission. He was involved in several of the early cases involving the constitutionality of OSHA warrantless inspections and Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search and seizure.
Mr. Bennett is a former faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy at Northwestern University School of Law. A former Chairman of the Board of CRIS Radio, a not-for-profit radio station providing reading services to the sight-impaired, he is now on the Board of the Yale Club of Chicago.