Sonya Rosenberg counsels and represents employers in various labor and employment-related matters. Her experience includes counseling employers through the many aspects of the employment relationship and representing employers in administrative proceedings and through various stages of litigation at the state, federal district and appellate court levels. Sonya has given multiple presentations and authored multiple articles on various employment-related topics, including discrimination, blogging in the workplace, social networking sites, non-compete agreements, workplace violence, conducting reductions in force and notable changes and developments in labor and employment law. Before joining the firm, Sonya worked as a paralegal in the labor and employment department of two large Chicago law firms.
Sonya is a member of the executive committee of the Chicago chapter of the International Women’s Forum, an international organization supporting global, national and local networks of women leaders in government, medicine, business, education, the arts and community service. Sonya is also a firm delegate and a member of the in-house committee on the Coalition of Women Initiatives in Law, a non-profit association focused on bringing together and supporting women attorneys. At the firm, Sonya is a member of the Neal Gerber Eisenberg Women’s Network Leadership Committee and Green Committee.
Sonya has been named a 2013 Rising Star by the Illinois Super Lawyers, a distinction awarded to 2.5% of the practicing lawyers in the state of Illinois. In 2012, Sonya was named by Today’s Chicago Woman as one of the 100 Women to Watch.