About the Author

Paul W. Mollica’s background includes class and individual representation in employment discrimination and employee benefit/ERISA litigation. He has wide appellate experience, including dozens of appeals in state and federal courts, and has authored or co-authored amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals for such national organizations as the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, ACLU, NAACP, AARP, and NELA. In 2008, he was named an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Employment Law Restatement and inducted as a member of the ABA College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. He has served as an editor on the Fourth and Fifth Editions of Lindemann and Grossman’s Employment Discrimination Law (2007, 2013), and advised on and edited the annual supplements to that treatise since 1998. Mr. Mollica is admitted to practice in Illinois and New York. He is presently a Senior Attorney at Equip for Equality, a Protection and Advocacy agency for people with disabilities in Illinois. All thoughts expressed in this blog are personal to the author.