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L. Steven Platt, attorney in Chicago, Past President of the National Employment Lawyers Association

and advocate for employee rights, a partner in the Chicago law firm of Arnold & Kadjan, a plaintiff's labor and employment firm. who has litigated cases in states from New York to California and is admitted to practice in the Third, Seventh and Ninth Circuits. He is also NELA's Age Discrimination Committee co-chair, and co-author of the book, Age Discrimination Litigation, published by James Publishing. Mr. Platt is a 1978 graduate of Loyola University (of Chicago) Law School.

Platt is one of the leading labor lawyers in the U.S.He is one of only 300 lawyers named a "Fellow" in the American College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.He is past President of the National Employment Lawyers Association and represents labor unions and their ERISA, Taft-Hartley fringe benefits funds. He has handled cases in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and California and before the 3rd, 7th and 9th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.Mr. Platt has also been involved with several U.S. Supreme Court and Illinois Supreme Court cases.Though heavily experienced in litigation, Mr. Platt's focus is on resolving problems before the need for a courtroom arises. An AV-rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell, Mr. Platt was recently cited as of the top five attorneys in his field by Chambers and Partners, Ltd, an independent rating service, which called him "a consummate trial lawyer."He was also named one of the "Top Lawyers in Illinois" by Chicago Magazine in its February 2008 Super Lawyers Section. Mr.Platt has been widely interviewed and quoted by the national media, has lectured and published articles with the International Employee Benefit Foundation (IEBF), has lectured for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Education (IICLE), was the Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Civil Rights Committee 1996-1998, a member of the Judicial Screening Committee American Bar Association: EEOC Liaison, is a Co-author of two Illinois Institute of Continuing Education (IICLE) chapters in the labor law field, has presented and published more than 40 articles in industry and legal publications, has lectured for the International Employee Benefit Foundation (IEBF), Lectured for the IICLE.Has appeared on CBS Eye on America, local television and radio and has been quoted in the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, AARP Publications as well as in local newspapers.
 * Fellow - http://www.laborandemploymentcollege.org/products/Current%20Fellows.aspx

More recently he was one of several lawyers asked to help write the official employment discrimination jury instructions for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit