Renee Atlas
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Renee Atlas
Discrimination, Employment Law, Israel Transactions
Professional Experience
Renee is licensed to practice law in the United States and Israel and has extensive experience in both countries in the areas of employment and commercial law and in contract negotiations. She has served as litigator, Civil Rights Judge, and as in-house counsel to an Israeli owned, American based hi-tech company.
Renee's expertise and experience includes:
- Advising management on employees’ rights and benefits;
- Co-authoring with the President of Appellate Labor Court in Israel: “Legal Aspects of Work-Related Mental Illness and Disorder.” Israel Journal of Psychiatry 2004 Vol. 4.
- Creating and conducting corporate training workshops: How to legally: hire, fire, investigate alleged wrongdoing, and test for drug use;
- Authoring policies on employment benefits and benefit handbooks;
- Writing severance package contracts and non-compete agreements;
- Drafting vendor contracts regarding employment matters;
- Writing: policies and procedures;
- Advising companies and the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist regarding grant applications for bi-national funding for hi-tech and bio-tech projects;
- Presiding over Civil Rights Court and ruling each week upon 100 summary judgment, discovery and jurisdiction motions. Presiding over 20 civil rights age, sex, race, national origin discrimination trials;
- Litigating in federal and state court discrimination litigation, immigration and naturalization cases and injunctions (corporate clients have included airline industry, employment agencies, colleges, hotels and national non-profit agencies);
- Negotiating and writing multi-party commercial service contracts;
- Negotiating multi-party collective bargaining agreements;
- Representing corporate clients in union arbitrations, unfair labor practice proceedings and workers’ compensation appeals.
Bars & Courts
- Florida, 1983*
- Illinois, 1984
- U.S. Federal Trial Bar, 1984
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1984
- Mediation Certification awarded by DePaul University, 2000
- Israel, 2005
Education
- Bar-Ilan University M.A., 2005
- IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law J.D., 1983 Law Review; Research Fellowship recipient; Moot Court Society; Research Assistant;
- University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, B.S. (with Honors), 1980
Publications
Legal Aspects of Work-Related Mental Illness and Disorder.” Israel Journal of Psychiatry 2004 Vol. 4.