Patrick J. Foote
EDUCATION:
B.S. in Political Science, University of Central Florida, 2013
J.D., with Honors, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2020
ADMITTED IN:
State of Illinois
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Member, AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance
Volunteer, National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer Program
PUBLICATIONS:
Author, “A Categorical Mess: The NLRB's Work Rule Jurisprudence From 1998 To The Present,” Employment Law Update, 2020 Edition (Wolters Kluwer)
Patrick J. Foote
Patrick J. Foote joined Allison, Slutsky & Kennedy in 2021. Before joining the firm, Patrick worked as a legal fellow in the General Counsel’s Office of the AFL-CIO. There, Patrick contributed to the AFL-CIO’s amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, as well as to multiple amicus briefs before the National Labor Relations Board. He also tracked National Labor Relations Board decisions being appealed to the circuit courts and contributed research and draft language to comments on rule changes by federal agencies.
Patrick graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law with honors in 2020. While in law school, he served as President of the Labor and Employment Law Society, Secretary of the National Lawyers Guild, and as a student editor of the Illinois Public Employee Relations Report. As one of two law students to ever be awarded three Peggy Browning Fellowships, Patrick worked on an array of issues relevant to workers and unions at the National Federation of Federal Employees, the Chicago News Guild, and Communications Workers of America. Further, Patrick externed for a semester at the Chicago office of the National Treasury Employees Union. In these positions, among other things, Patrick served as second chair in numerous arbitrations; worked on litigation before the National Labor Relations Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and contributed research and draft language to a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump for his issuance of executive orders targeting federal sector bargaining rights.
Patrick was born in Florida and graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2013. Before law school, Patrick worked as an organizer with Central Florida Jobs with Justice where he organized community support for embattled workers, and then as a labor journalist. He is a proud former member of the Chicago News Guild where he served as chair of his bargaining unit.