Sam Hensel
EDUCATION:
B.A. in Political Science, Roosevelt University, 2011
J.D., The John Marshall Law School, 2019.
ADMITTED IN:
Supreme Court of Illinois
Supreme Court of Indiana
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Union Lawyers Alliance
American Bar Association – Labor & Employment Division
Labor & Employment Relations Association of Chicago
PUBLICATIONS:
Contributing Editor, American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Division, The Developing Labor Law: The Board, the Courts, and the National Labor Relations Act, Volume 8, Chapter 6 (2022).
Contributing Editor, American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Division, The Railway Labor Act, (2021).
Delaying Competition: How Sound Public Policy and Rigorous Antitrust Scrutiny Can Be Applied to Controversial Patent Settlements, 17 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 655 (2018).
NLRB General Counsel Sets Sights on "Captive Audience" Meetings, The Brief, DuPage County Bar Association, 35 DCBA Brief 6 (2022).
Handbook of Research on Transforming Government, Nonprofits, and Healthcare in a Post-Pandemic Era, Labor Management Relations in the Public Sector, ISBN13: 9781668423141 (October 2022).
COVID-19 Sheds Light on Legal Issues for Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy, American Bar Association, Section of Labor & Employment Law, Summer Newsletter, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Summer 2020).
Sam Hensel
Sam Hensel joined Allison, Slutsky & Kennedy in 2024 as an Associate. Before joining the firm, Sam was a law clerk and then associate attorney for another law firm in Chicago that represents unions and workers before becoming a Staff Attorney at a large, predominantly public sector labor union in Chicago. Sam represented that union in numerous arbitrations, in unfair labor practice and representation proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and Illinois’s public sector labor relations boards, in court, and other forums. He has also conducted trainings for union stewards and staff and advised on internal union affairs governed by federal law.
Sam also has experience in representing Taft-Hartley funds in collection proceedings, as well as representing individual employees in wage and hour and other claims.