Navdeep Gill
senior associate at The Prinz Law Firm
Navdeep Gill is a Senior Associate at the firm, and practices in employment and business law.
Navdeep has spent the majority of her career litigating employment and business law disputes. Prior to joining the firm, Navdeep spent seven years at an Am Law 100 firm litigating employee benefit cases. Navdeep’s practice has included both litigation and counseling on behalf of employees and businesses, including Fortune 100 companies.
Navdeep began her career as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Judge Donald J. O’Brien Jr. in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. As a law clerk, she worked on a number of labor and employment issues, including judicial review of labor arbitration decisions, administrative review of employment law cases, and evaluating the validity of restrictive covenants.
Navdeep’s employment law experience includes litigating Title VII matters, negotiating and drafting employment and severance agreements for physicians and professionals, drafting employee handbooks, and counseling clients on a variety of employment law issues.
She has appeared in state and federal court, before the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, and the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
Navdeep has authored articles on the Illinois Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act (VESSA) and workplace harassment for law firm publications, and co-authored an article for the American Bar Association Tort Trial Practice Section entitled, “A Little DNA: Are Privacy and Discrimination Issues Raised?” discussing the legal limits of genetic testing in the workplace. She has also presented on sexual harassment in the workplace to the Law Women’s Caucus at DePaul Law School.
She has spent many years giving back to the community through her volunteer work on pro-bono matters, and spent six years volunteering as a board member for the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.
Navdeep loves to travel, enjoys hiking, tennis, biking, skiing, and long-distance running. In the summer, she enjoys the lakefront path and attending city festivals and outdoor concerts.
Navdeep is fluent in Punjabi and has a working knowledge of French.
education
- J.D., University of North Dakota
- Bachelor of Commerce, University of Calgary
admissions
- State of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- United States Supreme Court
practice areas
- Physician and executive employment and severance agreements
- Physician Employment
- Employee Handbooks and Employment Policies and Procedures
- Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act/wage violations
- Pregnancy, Race, Disability, and Gender Discrimination, Retaliation, and Harassment Claims
- Business Startup/Operating Agreements
- Employee Classification
- Sexual Harassment Training
- General Employment Counseling
bar associations
- Chicago Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association of Illinois
- South Asian Bar Association of North America
