Top Rated Employment Litigation Attorney in Chicago, IL

Lana B. Nassar represents clients in Illinois, California, and Missouri in matters of employment discrimination, harassment, unlawful termination, and civil rights violations in front of the Illinois Department of Human Rights, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, arbitrations, mediations, state court, and federal court. She represent individuals discriminated against based on race, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), disability, religion, familial status, national origin, and citizenship status.

Named a Fulbright Scholar in Amman, Jordan, she also served as a judicial clerk to an International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, gaining invaluable experience that she applied to make herself an intelligent, confident, and strategic attorney.

Ms. Nassar attended Loyola University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts. She then pursued her dream of becoming an attorney and graduated with her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law. While in law school, she was named to the executive board of the Middle Eastern Law Students Association.

Lana is a Super Lawyer 2020 and 2021 Illinois Rising Star, a distinction awarded to 2.5% of all attorneys in Illinois. She is on the National Board of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and its Legal Committee, the Board of the Arab-American Bar Association of Illinois and the Arab-American Business and Professional Association. 

Prior to law school, Lana was a Judicial Clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. She also served as a delegate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.