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Margot Klein is of counsel with Ogletree Deakins, where she focuses her practice on complex employment litigation and appeals, sensitive workplace investigations, and diversity, equity, and inclusion compliance. Margot represents clients across a wide range of industries, including financial services, strategic advisory, pharmaceutical, and health care. She is a trusted advocate and advisor who uses comprehensive legal analysis and sound business judgment to obtain successful results in federal and state courts and alternative dispute resolution forums. Her complex litigation and appellate experience includes class and collective actions, and matters involving unfair competition (including restrictive covenants), trade secrets, fiduciary duties, tortious interference, contract, data privacy, discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour, and accommodations. She also routinely designs and leads diversity, equity, and inclusion seminars and advises on compliance matters.
Margot’s practice is informed by the breadth of her experience, including her uniquely extensive federal court knowledge. She previously litigated with an Am Law 100 firm and an alternative fees litigation boutique, where she handled complex commercial and employment disputes and matters of federal civil rights. In addition, she has clerked for some of the toughest and most beloved judges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, including a Chief Judge, a District Judge, and several Magistrate Judges. Margot also served as the inaugural staff attorney for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois William J. Hibbler Memorial Pro Se Assistance Program, a groundbreaking federal court legal assistance program.
Margot serves on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), as First Vice President of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, and founder and General Chair of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and by appointment on an Advisory Committee for the U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois. She also serves as Secretary and Treasurer of the Northern District of Illinois Court Historical Association and as an Advisory Board Member of the Chicago Bar Foundation’s Justice Entrepreneurs Project.
Margot earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and her Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
