Attorney Profiles

Barney Mundorf counsels school districts, municipalities, and business entities on a wide variety of labor, employment, and personnel issues. His work involves traditional union matters, such as mid-term bargaining obligations, unfair labor practice claims, collective bargaining issues, unit clarification petitions, and union representation campaigns. Barney also advises employers on employment discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Illinois Human Rights Act.

Barney frequently represents clients before arbitrators, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, and in state and federal courts.

Prior to entering private practice, practiced for close to eight years in the public sector, serving as a staff attorney with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and as an attorney on active duty in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps of the United States Army. During his public sector career, Barney represented and defended the federal government in labor and employment cases before the Federal Labor Relations Board, the Federal Services Impasses Panel, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, and in federal court.