We are extremely pleased to welcome Tricia Holland, who is Of Counsel to the firm. For over 14 years, Tricia has concentrated her practice in labor and employment law and employee benefits matters, as well as litigation. Most recently, she was Associate General Counsel of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc., now CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange. Prior to and following the company's extremely successful initial public offering, Tricia counseled CME management in all aspects of employee relations and policy as it navigated its dramatic change from a not-for-profit organization to a publicly traded company. Tricia also created, and served as a member of, CME's Compliance and Ethics Team and oversaw the company's Sarbanes-Oxley ethics-related compliance efforts, annually reviewing the Code of Conduct, leading employee misconduct investigations, and reporting quarterly to the Board of Directors' Audit Committee.

Earlier, Tricia was a senior associate in the labor and employment litigation department at Katten Muchin Zavis (now Katten Muchin Rosenman), where she represented a broad range of corporate clients, including multinational corporations and small businesses, in all aspects of employment-related litigation.

Tricia's expertise includes drafting and enforcing non-compete agreements and non-disclosure agreements, litigating claims under applicable state and federal employment and employee benefit laws, and counseling clients regarding compliance with such laws. Tricia advises clients regarding the development and enforcement of employment policies and codes of conduct, and provides workplace training - often required by federal and state law - to employees and management. She has extensive experience representing management before the NLRB in various labor disputes, including union certification and decertification, interest arbitration and collective bargaining.

Tricia received her law degree, cum laude, from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where she was a member and staff editor of the Law Review. Tricia is a member of the state bars of Illinois and Connecticut, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the District of Connecticut.