Elissa J. Hobfoll

Attorney Elissa J. Hobfoll is a top-ranked lawyer with over 20 years of legal experience in employment law.  She owns and manages Hobfoll Law LLC. law firm in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Hobfoll focuses her practice exclusively on employment law, and she provides invaluable consulting, counseling, advocacy, and support to clients throughout the greater Chicagoland area who, have questions about their rights and obligations and those who have suffered serious violations of their rights on the job. In addition to her advocacy work, Ms. Hobfoll was selected to be a member of the Roster of Neutrals for the Employment Panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and acts as an Arbitrator in Employment Law disputes. Ms. Hobfoll also received her certificate in Mediation Training from the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies. She serves as a neural mediator, helping employers and employees overcome barriers to resolution and find consensual solutions for workplace disputes.

Over the course of her practice representing individual clients as well as collective and class action claims, Ms. Hobfoll has achieved significant success helping executives negotiate their employment contracts and securing much-needed restitution for those who experienced discrimination, harassment, whistleblower retaliation and other work-related grievances. From her efforts, she has obtained millions of dollars in total compensation for her clients.   She also routinely counsels businesses of all sizes in a variety of industries with their employment law risk and compliance matters.

Drawing upon her extensive legal knowledge and experience, Ms. Hobfoll has several publications to her credit, and she has conducted lectures and continuing legal education seminars across her region on a variety of legal topics. She has considerable experience handling matters before federal, state and administrative courts throughout her region, and she has gained a reputation as a fierce and tireless advocate for her clients.

A graduate of DePaul University and the University of Oregon, Ms. Hobfoll began her legal career in 2005 after obtaining her Juris Doctor from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law and her license to practice from the Illinois State Bar Association. The recipient of the Equal Justice Fellowship grant in law school, she worked as a student attorney with the Law Offices of Chicago-Kent: Employment and Civil Rights Clinic, and she completed an externship with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Litigation Department.