Lorrie T. Peeters joined Caffarelli & Siegel as an Associate in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Peeters gained experience as a summer associate and clerk in the employment division of a mid-size Chicago law firm. At Caffarelli & Siegel, she concentrates her practice in the areas of employment litigation and negotiation. Ms. Peeters has experience with issues stemming from violations of the FMLA, FLSA, IMWL, ADEA, ADA, and Title VII. She has participated in numerous severance negotiations, all stages of federal litigation proceedings, employment arbitrations, and multiple hearings and mediations before the administrative agencies. Ms. Peeters has experience filing federal claims for both individual and collective actions. She has also performed substantive litigation defense work on behalf of the
City of Chicago.
Ms. Peeters earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a minor in Political Science from
Northwestern University. During her undergraduate career, she worked as an intern with Northwestern University's Bluhm Legal Clinic and focused on providing representation to juveniles during school expulsion hearings. Following graduation, she worked in the products liability group of a large Chicago law firm.
In 2006, Ms. Peeters received her J.D. from
Loyola University Chicago School of Law. While a student at Loyola, she served as the Articles Editor on the executive board of the school's renowned Children's Legal Rights Journal, was selected by faculty to tutor a course in legal writing, and volunteered as a legal rights educator within the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center.
In addition to her legal work at Caffarelli & Siegel, Ms. Peeters is the associate member of the firm’s marketing committee. She is a member of the
Chicago Bar Association and the
National Employment Lawyers Association, and is admitted to practice before the
Illinois Supreme Court and the
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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