District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The verdict in this case was one of the highest ever in a single plaintiff employment discrimination action in the U.S. Represented a school district employee fired after exercising his First Amendment right to support the candidate of his choice in local school board elections. The remedial order resulted in the hiring of 106 class members as Chicago Firefighters and payment of $78.5 million in back pay and pension contributions. Piers and his legal team prevailed not only at trial but also before the US Supreme Court. City of Chicago. Represented a class of more than 6,000 African Americans who passed a hiring exam for entry-level firefighter positions in the Chicago Fire Department and then were wrongfully denied the opportunity to be considered for employment by the City. The settlement provided for monetary relief of $17 million, as well as an injunction requiring both objective criteria for pay and promotions decisions involving female managerial employees and outside review of gender equity compliance efforts. Walgreen Co. Represented a nationwide class of women retail store management employees in a Title VII class action lawsuit against the nation’s largest drugstore chain. Piers was the lead attorney for the PROTEJE Program of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores of the United Mexican States (the foreign ministry of the government of Mexico), providing legal representation in impact cases brought on behalf of Mexican nationals throughout the United States. He also has extensive experience representing whistleblowers in false claims ( qui tam) cases.įrom 2010 to 2015, Mr. Piers practice focuses on complex litigation cases involving mass tort, commercial, constitutional, civil liberties, consumer protection, and employment and housing discrimination claims. Piers served as Deputy Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago, supervising all litigation for the City under the administration of Mayor Harold Washington. He worked for a year as a staff attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, and then established a private litigation practice. ![]() Piers enrolled in the University of Chicago Law School, where he graduated in 1974. He has also successfully defended litigation involving claims for hundreds of millions of dollars.Īfter three years of college at Cornell University, Mr. He has over 40 years of experience in complex and class action litigation in a broad array of federal and state courts around the country.įor plaintiffs, he has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements including single case amounts exceeding $200 million. He is an internationally recognized trial and appellate attorney, with a practice concentrated on complex litigation matters. Matthew Piers is a shareholder and the president of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., as well as a member of the firm’s Management Committee.
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