Kathryn Hartrick

Hartrick Employment Law & Investigations, Evanston

Hartrick is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Hartrick Employment Law & Investigations in Evanston, delivering legal solutions in the areas of investigations, training/coaching, and employment law counseling. She is also General Counsel for the global executive coaching firm Robertson Lowstuter. She conducts complex workplace investigations, including those involving senior leaders in the C-Suite, multiple complainant/respondents, and boards of directors. A former law firm Partner and litigator and law school adjunct professor, she also served as Deputy Commissioner for the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations. In addition, she has been a volunteer mediator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

Hartrick has been a speaker for IICLE^® on employment law topics for over twenty years and has co-moderated IICLE^®’s Employment Law Institute for over ten years. She has also been a contributing author to IICLE^®’s publications EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION: EMPLOYER OBLIGATIONS AND WORKPLACE CONSIDERATIONS and CONDUCTING THE EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES AUDIT.

Hartrick has held corporate officer legal and HR positions with global publicly traded corporations. She is an elected Fellow to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine; and has a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating, the highest ranking in legal ability and ethical standards as determined by lawyer peers. For over 20 years, she has chaired the North Shore Labor & Employment Counsel, and she served on the Boards of the Northern Illinois Society for Human Resources and the Northern Illinois Human Resources Council, including serving as NISHRM Co-President from 2020 – 2022. She is a faculty member for the Association of Workplace Investigators and frequently speaks and writes on developments in Illinois employment laws, leave issues, sexual harassment/respect in the workplace, investigations, executive coaching topics, and employment law topics. Her law degree is from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she served on the Law Review, and she has a BBA from the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.