Jeannil D. Boji
Jeannil is a go-to for clients—from Fortune 50 companies to tech startups and high-profile individuals—when faced with urgent, sensitive, and complex employment issues and crises.
Jeannil Boji creatively and effectively addresses complicated and delicate employment matters before they become expensive and publicized problems. Jeannil focuses on avoiding litigation and minimizing legal exposure by anticipating and addressing issues early on, through proactive counseling, drafting, and negotiating effective agreements and workplace policies; conducting trainings and investigations; and negotiating and resolving pre-litigation disputes involving highly sensitive and cutting-edge workplace legal issues.
Jeannil counsels on matters involving noncompete and trade secret law; confidentiality and workplace privacy and technology; whistleblower and retaliation allegations; remote workers and gig economy concerns; and the hiring, counseling, or termination of high-profile executives or other employees that may involve significant legal exposure. She investigates potential trade secret or other data theft and breaches, including coordinating forensic expert inspections of devices and systems and implementing recovery and preservation protocols. Jeannil also regularly handles workplace investigations and internal compliance issues, and provides employment law-related training, particularly to companies concerned about #MeToo issues, sexual harassment and discrimination, or racial discrimination and bias.
If and when litigation becomes inevitable, Jeannil brings to bear more than 15 years of experience fiercely litigating a variety of significant employment matters in federal and state courts across the country. In particular, Jeannil is skilled in defending against and obtaining injunctions involving noncompetition and other restrictive covenants, trade secret misappropriation, and unfair competition. She also regularly litigates and mediates complex labor and employment disputes in the areas of wage-and-hour class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, whistleblower retaliation, and discrimination and retaliation cases under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Jeannil also advises companies on issues related to cannabis law updates and legal developments. This includes counseling companies on best practices for employee investigations, drug testing, discipline, discharge, accommodation requests, and other unique workplace concerns involving cannabis in states where marijuana is legal for recreational or medicinal use.
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Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., Journal of Law Reform, 2007
- Emory University, B.A., Economics/International Studies, 2003
- London School of Economics and Political Science,
Bar and Court Admissions
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Illinois
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Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Related Employment
- McGuireWoods LLP, Chicago, IL, Associate, 2007-2011; Summer Associate, 2006
- Tyco International, Ltd., Princeton, NJ, Law Clerk, 2005
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Data Logistics Company
Secured summary judgment dismissing former employee’s claims for breach of employment contract on behalf of client and permitted to proceed forward to trial with counterclaim for misappropriation of confidential information and breach of fiduciary duty claims against former employee.
InnerWorkings, Inc.
Represented InnerWorkings, Inc. in a noncompete case against a terminated employee who had sold their business to InnerWorkings and threatened to leave to begin working for a competitor.
Capstone Financial Advisors, Inc.
Represented Capstone Financial Advisors, Inc. in a suit against a former employee and new employer who stole confidential information and took customers to a competing business.
CDW LLC
Obtained preliminary injunction where the court found that CDW had demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits with regard to their trade secret misappropriation, conspiracy to breach fiduciary duty and unfair competition claims. The court also concluded that the competitor tortiously interfered with valid restrictive covenants.
The Boeing Company
Defended client against an Family and Medical Leave Act, disability and age discrimination claim.