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| Selected by peers as a Leading Lawyer in: | Extensive Experience in: |
| Employment Law: Management | Labor and Employment Law |
| Corporate Health Care | |
| County: Cook | |
| Practice Description: Tom Luetkemeyer concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment law and corporate health care law. Mr. Luetkemeyer represents management employers around the country in the full range of labor and employment matters. His practice includes work before federal administrative agencies such as the EEOC, the U.S. Department of Labor, the OFCCP and OSHA. He regularly appears before state agencies with jurisdiction over employers, including the Illinois Department of Human Rights and other similar state agencies with responsibility for enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination in the work place. Mr. Luetkemeyer also is involved with state departments of labor and other similar agencies. He represents employers in a variety of union-related concerns, including organization drives, collective bargaining, strikes, secondary boycotts, decertification and administrative hearings before the National Labor Relations Board. In his health care practice, Mr. Luetkemeyer regularly represents hospitals, group practices and individual physicians in general corporate matters. He advises clients on organizational and structural issues concerning joint ventures, sales of operating entities, physician recruitment, fraud and abuse, Stark I and II, tax exemption issues, shareholder relations and executive compensation. Mr. Luetkemeyer frequently appears before a variety of Illinois administrative agencies, including the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, the Illinois Department of Public Aid and the Illinois Department of Public Health. Mr. Luetkemeyer is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and teaches labor law, employment law and employment discrimination. His professional affiliations include the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys, the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys and the Illinois State Bar Association. Mr. Luetkemeyer joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in January 1985. He serves as the in-house counsel on the firm's employment matters. Bar Admissions: Illinois (1982) U.S. District Courts, Northern (1982) and Central (1998) Districts of Illinois U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana (2000) Date of Birth: 1956 Law School: Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D., 1982 Undergraduate School: Loyola University, B.A., B.S., 1979 Undergraduate School Honors/Involvement: magna cum laude Published Legal Writing: Mr. Luetkemeyer also is the author of the "Employment Discrimination" chapter in the Handbook on Employment Termination, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, May 2002. Legal Lectures: Mr. Luetkemeyer frequently speaks to educational, business, legal and professional association audiences on labor and employment and health care topics, including wage and hour issues and sexual harassment. He also speaks on the impact of other state and federal laws affecting the employee-employer relationship. His presentations over the past 10 years have included: "Discipline and Documentation," EEOC Technical Assistance Program, August 2004. "Employment Law Developments," College of Imaging Administrators, May 2004. "Union Organizing Tactics," St. Mary of Galesberg, April 2004. "Employment Issues Roundtable," Pre-School Owners Association, February 2004. "Employment Practices Risk," CUNA Mutual Group, June 2003. "Employment Practices Liability for the Medical Practice," Kane County Medical Society, May 2003. "The Abusive Physician," American Association of Critical Care Nurses, March 2003. "HR Tools for the 21st Century," American Institute of Architects, May 2002. "Compliance Issues for Imaging Administrators," College of Imaging Administrators, April 2002. "Nuts and Bolts of Staffing and Other Human Resource Issues," American Society of Plastic Surgeons, April 2002. "The Disruptive Physician and the ADA," Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, March 2002. "Navigating the Troubled Waters of Employment Law," American Association of Critical Care Nurses, March 2002. "The New 2001 Stark II Regulations," College of Imaging Administrators, April 2001. "Extending Weingarten to the Non-Union Sector," University of Notre Dame Law School, March 2001. Sexual Harassment and the Workplace, NeuroSource, September, 2000. "Avoiding Employment Law Claims," The Chicago Trust Company, October 1999. "Developments in Employment Law for the Health Care Client," Chicago Association of Health Care Executives, May 1999. "Avoiding Corporate Exposure for Sexual Harassment," Hinshaw & Culbertson's 10th Annual Litigation Strategies Symposium, October 15, 1998. "Physician Fraud & Abuse Issues," Elkhart County Medical Society, September 1998. "Amendments to the Illinois Human Rights Act," DuPage County Bar Association, Wheaton, IL, May 1996. "The Ten Red Flags of Contracting," American Academy of Pediatricians, Chicago, IL, December 1995. "Financial Management for Integrated Delivery Systems," Institute for International Research, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1995. "Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices," Metropolitan Chicago Health Care Council, Chicago, IL, April 1995. "Wage and Hour Issues for Health Care Providers," Medical Education Services, Oak Brook, Illinois, November 1994. "Physician Practices and Employment Law," Lake County Medical Society, Libertyville, Illinois, September 1994. 1013497 | |
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