Partner

Laurie A. Holmes is a partner in our Chicago office whose practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling.  Before joining the firm in Washington, D.C. in 1996, she clerked for Judge Truman A. Morrison, III, at the Superior Court for the District of Columbia and practiced at another firm in Washington, D.C.

Laurie has handled a variety of employment matters, which include responding to EEOC charges; defending discrimination, wage and hour, and other employment-related suits; negotiating and drafting employment and separation agreements; counseling clients through reductions-in-force and other cost-cutting measures; and general counseling to ensure compliance with state and federal employment laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act and Family and Medical Leave Act.  Her clients include associations, consulting firms, nonprofit organizations, start-up companies, major corporations, health care systems and individuals.

While at Georgetown University Law Center, Laurie was associate editor of the American Criminal Law Review and participated in the Criminal Justice Clinic.  While in college, she studied for a year abroad at St. Clare’s Hall in Oxford, England.

Believing that all litigators are frustrated actors, in her spare time, Laurie has performed with the Georgetown Law School Gilbert & Sullivan Society.  She also collects Gone with the Wind and Vivien Leigh memorabilia.