Professional Details

Professional Details

Juliet V. Berger-White

Juliet Berger-White is a partner with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. She concentrates her practice in the areas of civil rights/constitutional law, class actions, labor and employment, and commercial litigation. She joined the firm in 2001.

Ms. Berger-White graduated cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. During law school, Ms. Berger-White worked at the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago and the Bluhm Legal Clinic. She also traveled to Tanzania to conduct research on the country's juvenile justice system.

Prior to joining HSPRD, Ms. Berger-White served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. 

Representative Matters

Personal PAC v. McGuffage. In a First Amendment challenge filed on behalf of Personal PAC and two of its supporters, HSPRD obtained a permanent injunction, barring the enforcement of portions of Illinois’s campaign finance law.

Jones v. Walgreen Co. Represented a nationwide class of women retail store management employees in a Title VII class action lawsuit against the nation’s largest drugstore chain. The settlement provided for monetary relief of $17 million, as well as an injunction requiring both objective criteria for pay and promotions decisions involving female managerial employees and outside review of gender equity compliance efforts.

Represented a school district employee fired after exercising his First Amendment right to support the candidate of his choice in local school board elections. The verdict in this case was one of the highest ever in a single plaintiff civil rights action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Represented individual who had been discriminated against under Title VII by an employer who refused to hire her based on her caregiving responsibilities, which resulted in a favorable settlement.

Represented a class of juveniles who challenged the a juvenile detention center's policy of strip searching juveniles brought to the center without regard to individualized considerations, such as the individual’s circumstances, the alleged offense, or whether individualized suspicion exists to believe that the juvenile is carrying or concealing weapons or contraband. Resulted in a favorable settlement.

Represented a municipal employee fired after exercising his First Amendment right to support the candidate of his choice in the local elections, which resulted in a favorable settlement.

Represented a large restaurant chain in a class sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which resulted in a favorable resolution.

Memberships / Associations

Legal
  • Member, Illinois State Bar Association
  • Member, Chicago Bar Association

Related News

  • The United States District Court held that two provisions of Illinois’s campaign finance law violate the First Amendment and entered an injunction prohibiting their enforcement in the case Personal PAC v. McGuffage. Read more.
  • HSPRD attorneys filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Personal PAC, a bipartisan statewide political action committee, and two of its supporters, challenging the constitutionality of two provisions of Illinois's campaign finance law. Read more.
  • Federal court judge grants final approval to class action settlement in which HSPRD represented a nationwide class of women retail store management employees in a Title VII class action lawsuit against nation’s largest drugstore chain. Read more.
  • Federal court grants final approval to class action settlement HSPRD filed on behalf of juveniles who were strip searched at a local detention center. Read more.