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Gail Schnitzer Eisenberg leads our growing employment practice and focuses her practice on employees’ rights. She approaches each matter with a pragmatic, empathetic lens rooted in legal analysis. Gail assists clients in a range of employment disputes related to race, gender, and other forms of workplace discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Gail has experience with all phases of litigation and administrative proceedings as well as employment contracts, training, handbooks, and severance agreements.
Gail is a leader among employment lawyers, ensuring she stays abreast of the newest developments in the law and maintains robust relationships. Gail was elected President of the National Employment Lawyers Association of Illinois (“NELA Illinois”) for 2026-2028 after serving as Vice President and Legislative Committee Chairperson. Gail served as 2021-2023 chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s (“CBA”) Labor and Employment Committee, the 2023 Nominating Committee, and now serves as the Co-Chair of Continuing Legal Education Committee where she originated the Lawyers as Leaders series. In 2022, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) of Labor & Employment Law Section awarded Gail a two-year Young Lawyers Division Fellowship.
Gail has been recognized for her skill and leadership as a lawyer. For example, Gail was selected as one of the 40 Under Forty 2025 Illinois Attorneys to Watch by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Law Bulletin Media Magazine. Gail was selected for this prestigious award out of over roughly 25,000 eligible and 1,500 nominated attorneys and this recognition is a true testament to her impact in the legal arena. Gail was also named one of 40 Under 40 “On the Rise” by the ABA. She was named a Champion by Women Employed and awarded the 2025 Alta May Hulett Award from the CBA Alliance for Women for her contributions to the advancement and empowerment of women in the legal profession and community at large, including championing efforts to prohibit family responsibilities discrimination in employment, the expansion of the statute of limitations period for Illinois discrimination claims, and employer liability for gender-based violence. The American Bar Foundation (“ABF”) elected Gail to the ABF Fellows, a global honorary society for those who have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities, membership to which is limited to 1% of licensed lawyers in each jurisdiction. Leading Lawyers has named Gail a Leading Lawyer in Employment Law, and Super Lawyers named Gail as an Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star in Employment Litigation every year since 2017, one of less than 2.5% of Illinois attorneys under the age of forty given that distinction. She had previously been named a Rising Star in Class Action litigation. Gail was also named to the 2015 Chicago Jewish 36 Under 36 List by the Jewish United Fund (“JUF”) and presented the Award of Excellence by the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, America’s oldest Jewish bar association.
Gail is active in the community. In 2021 and 2025, the residents of New Trier Township in the northern suburbs of Chicago elected Gail Township Supervisor after completing a four-year term as trustee, in which position she oversees the community’s social safety net and social service programs. Gail also currently sits on the Administrative and Government Affairs Committees of the JUF, co-chairs the Legislative Committee of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, serves on the Quality Jobs Council for Women Employed, on the Board of PresonalPAC, as a Girl Scout Troop Leader, and on the Triage Cancer Legal Advisory Council. She is passionate about fighting prematurity and was selected to the inaugural class of Gretchen Carlson March of Dimes Advocacy Fellows in 2018.
Before joining Loftus and Eisenberg, Gail practiced employees’ civil rights law at Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., which was named the top law firm for employee rights and race discrimination matters by the National Law Journal. Before that, Gail worked as a Managing Associate at Dentons’ Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, where she focused on class action defense and other complex litigation primarily in the insurance, financial services, gaming, and media industries. Gail emphasizes pro bono service volunteering legal services with the Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, ACLU of Illinois, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Equip for Equality. She also has worked directly with children through the Girl Scouts Legal Track and the Constitutional Rights Foundation’s Lawyers in the Classroom Project.
Gail began her legal career as a Staff Law Clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where she worked on criminal and civil appeals as well as requests for leave to appeal the denial of petitions for habeas corpus. Gail also taught Appellate Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
During law school, Gail served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Joan Humphrey Lefkow for the Northern District of Illinois and as a Civil Procedure teaching assistant for Prof. Ron Allen. She also served as a Legal Extern at the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois, and as a Civil Appeals Division Law Clerk at the Office of the Attorney General of Illinois Lisa Madigan. Gail represented clients in immigration proceedings as a part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern Law, served as the Symposium Editor of the Journal of Law & Social Policy, and on the Miner Moot Court Board. Prior to attending law school, Gail served as a Civic Leadership Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League of Greater Chicago/Upper Midwest Region.