Nina G. Stillman concentrates her practice on employment and occupational safety and health law matters, representing corporations and institutions in large employment class actions and single plaintiff lawsuits, agency investigations, restrictive covenants litigation and health and safety-related cases. Ms. Stillman counsels employers nationwide on cross-border workplace issues and counsels international clients on U.S. employment and workplace health and safety law. She has handled some of the country's seminal cases on both the employment and OSHA sides of her practice. In addition to defending clients in employment and safety and health law matters, Ms. Stillman extensively counsels clients in these practice areas, partnering with her clients to maximize litigation avoidance techniques.

From 2004 through 2014, Ms. Stillman was named one of the leading U.S. lawyers for employment law by Chambers USA. Chambers, whose ratings are based on the opinions of clients, peers and other industry professionals, has reported that Ms. Stillman's clients call her "everything you want a lawyer to be" and that she is a "national star" who is widely recognized for her work on class action litigation and her "tremendous expertise in health and safety."

Ms. Stillman is a highly experienced trial attorney, having tried jury and bench trials involving issues of race, gender, religion, age and disability discrimination, sex harassment, wrongful discharge, workplace torts such as defamation, tortious interference and intentional infliction of emotional distress, workplace repetitive strain injuries and occupational reproductive hazards. She has defended clients in employment litigation throughout the country and is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Eight and Eleventh Circuits; and the U.S. Districts Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, Central District of Illinois, District of Nebraska, District of Colorado, Eastern District of Texas, Western District of Wisconsin, Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the District of North Dakota.

Ms. Stillman is recognized as one of the preeminent OSHA lawyers in the country, representing clients in federal OSHA and state plan inspections and contests throughout the U.S. She performs incident investigations and privileged audits, has deep experience in crisis management arising from workplace fatalities, explosions and fires and regularly counsels and performs training for clients in workplace safety and health issues. She has worked extensively on issues involving the overlap of employment and safety and health issues such as developing employer responses to epidemics and pandemics and effectively addressing the balancing between the requirements of our disability discrimination laws and the obligation to ensure a safe and healthy workplace.

Among the accolades she has received are: Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; The Best Lawyers in America (1995-present); The Legal 500 for Labor and Employment Litigation (2014); BTI Client Service All-Stars (2014); Top 10 Employment Management Lawyers in Illinois (Leading Lawyer Magazine 2014); Top 100 Business Lawyers in Illinois (Leading Lawyer Magazine 2006); listed as one of the nation's top 100 most powerful employment attorneys in Human Resource Executive (2009); Human Resource Executive's The Best Defense 2008 - Top 50 Employment Defense Attorneys in the country; Top 50 Leading Women Business Lawyers in Illinois (Leading Lawyers Magazine 2009); Chicago's 100 Most Influential Women (Crain's Chicago Business 1997). She is a recipient of Northwestern University's Service Award (1994).