Lori L. Deem

Lori L. Deem is a Partner with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.  During her 20+ years as an employment attorney, Ms. Deem has represented executives and individuals in a wide variety of employment matters, including severance and employment agreement negotiations, employment discrimination claims and retaliatory discharge cases. 

Ms. Deem has extensive experience representing C-Suite and senior executives in job transition and change-of-control situations with drafting and negotiating severance and employment agreements, as well as non-competition agreements, and other related executive matters such as shareholder and partnership agreements.  She advises executive clients on equity and compensation issues involving long-term and short-term incentive plans, stock options, restricted stock unit agreements and other equity arrangements.

Lori currently serves as the Employee Co-Chair of the Women Attorneys’ Affinity Group of the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section, and a Section Liaison to the ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession.  She is a past Employee Co-Chair and member of the Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee (ERR) of the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section.     

Since 2012, Ms. Deem has been recognized each year as a top employment attorney by Illinois Super Lawyers and Leading Lawyers, including being named to the list of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Illinois in 2022.  She has also been recognized by LawDragon as one of the top 500 plaintiff’s employment attorneys in the U.S.