Elisabeth Seieroe Maurer

Attorney Maurer’s practice focuses on litigation and counseling of individuals and companies in connection with a wide array of employment issues:

     •  Gender, Race, and disability discrimination cases against private employers, municipalities and federal entities.

     •  Employment and promotional  candidates in cases against various municipalities.

     •  Public and private employees asserting that their employer had under-funded  their pension plan.

     •  Numerous investment bankers, commodities and currency traders, and securities brokers  against their Wall Street employers,  negotiating releases from non-compete agreements.

     •  Senior  executives in the nuclear energy,  re-location services, and  wine & spirits industries in  conjunction with negotiating employment and severance agreements

 Prior to founding Maurer & Associates PC, Attorney Maurer was a senior litigation associate at Fink Weinberger PC where she litigated cases on behalf of investors in the Prudential limited partnership scandal and in RICO claims against Rothschild Reserve, a partnership sponsor well known for the use of false appraisals and straw  man buying schemes. She also successfully represented co-op sponsors in claims asserting breach of contract and housing discrimination tried  to the New York Rabbinical Council.

Attorney Maurer received her undergraduate degree from University of  Illinois in Finance; and her Juris Doctor from De Paul University School of Law  in  Chicago, graduating in the top 15%  of  her class. She had the honor of serving as a 7-11 law clerk to the Honorable John Hourihane, Illinois Appellate Court, and Caroline  Schoenberger, Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for the City of Chicago.