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FN:Cheryl Blackwell Bryson
TEL;WORK:312.499.6708
TEL;FAX:312.277.2328
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:CBBryson@duanemorris.com
N:Bryson; Cheryl
TITLE:Partner
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP<br />Suite 3700<br />190 South LaSalle Street<br />Chicago, IL  60603-3433<br />USA<br />
URL;WORK:http://www.duanemorris.com
NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Cheryl Blackwell Bryson is head of the Chicago office's Employment Law and Management Labor Relations Practice and a former member of the firms' board of managers. Ms. Bryson represents middle-market as well as Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries on labor and employment law and litigation issues, including pattern and practice Title VII litigation, and discrimination matters before federal and state agencies and state and federal courts.

Ms. Bryson also provides legal counsel on claim avoidance, internal investigations, alternative dispute resolution and other aspects of the defense of EEO claims. She has extensive experience advising both private and public sector employers in labor and employment matters and collective bargaining related activities, including negotiations, mediation, arbitration and contract administration. 
While on leave from law firm practice, Ms. Bryson served as deputy corporation counsel for the City of Chicago's Law Department, where she established the Labor Relations Division and directed contract administration and collective bargaining for the City's 35,000 unionized employees. A frequent author and lecturer on labor and employment law issues, Ms. Bryson is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, the Labor and Employment Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and the Cook County Bar Association.

She is a 1977 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Law, where she was associate editor of the Law Journal, and a magna cum laude graduate of Morgan State University.

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