GWEN V. CARROLL

Principal and founder of GVC, Ltd., Gwen Carroll brings her fervent commitment to effective, results-oriented advocacy and counsel for individual and corporate clients in:

·         all areas of labor and employment transactional law and litigation;

·         general commercial transactions and litigation; and

·         day-to-day advice and counsel.

Gwen is an honors graduate of DePaul University College of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the DePaul Law Review.  She brings her prior experience as a partner in two of Chicago’s most prominent law firms to deliver high-impact results to her clients. 

In the advocacy arena, Gwen’s practice includes extensive civil litigation and trial experience in state and federal forums, National Labor Relations Board proceedings, Illinois Human Rights Commission hearings, industrial and commercial arbitrations, and federal and state wage-and-hour proceedings.

In the transactional context, Gwen regularly negotiates complex employment and partnership agreements for senior executives, management employees, and partnering professionals.

Committed to finding the root causes of workplace conflict, Gwen has conducted numerous corporate in-house seminars aimed at training both upper-level management and first-level supervisors to understand the situations that can create liability for the employer, the operation of good complaint procedures, and the importance of prompt, thoughtful, and thorough investigations.

Gwen is a contributing author to the Bureau of National Affairs’ books Sexual Harassment in Employment Law and Age Discrimination in Employment Law, and she speaks frequently on a multitude of employment law topics.  Television appearances include:

·         Featured employment law consultant on WGN-TV series entitled “Smoke-Free in the ‘90s”

·         CBS’s “Money Talks,” interviewed by Terry Savage on Chicago’s Smoking Ordinance

·         NBC Dateline, commenting on the issue of breast-feeding in the workplace.

Professional memberships:  American Bar Association ("ABA"), ABA Sections of Labor and Employment Law, Law Practice Division, Litigation, and Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Division; Illinois State Bar Association; Women’s Bar Association of Illinois; and Chicago Bar Association.  Past appointments include Lecturer of Labor Law at Loyola University School of Law, and Chairperson of the Chicago Bar Association’s Client Development and Firm Economics Committee, Young Lawyers Division.  Undergraduate degree:  Georgetown University.