Victoria Gray focuses her practice on counseling employers on a wide range of labor and employment matters, including state and federal court litigation, grievance arbitrations, labor board proceedings and proceedings before various administrative agencies. She advises and represents clients regarding employment discrimination, harassment and in matters related to:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- The Family and Medical Leave Act
- The Illinois Human Rights Act
Gray has experience in conducting confidential internal investigations involving allegations of employee misconduct and providing employers with recommendations including appropriate personnel decisions to ensure compliance with labor agreements and with federal and state law. She formerly served as an assistant state’s attorney, where she obtained first chair bench and jury trial experience in both civil and criminal matters. She also served as chief in house labor and employment counsel for a mass transit agency and has practiced employment and labor law in the Chicago area for over 14 years. Gray served as a federal judicial law clerk for the Hon. Sharon Johnson Coleman in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
She was awarded the Order of the Coif and served as a member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review. Gray is licensed to practice in both Illinois and Florida.