Lee Ferron ATTORNEY AT LAW
email: lee@ferronlawoffice.com
Lee Ferron was born and raised in the Chicago area and has been practicing
law locally for ten years. Ms. Ferron was proud to be the first person in her family
to attend college, graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1992. She went on to attend Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she was
co-founder and Vice-President of the Labor & Employment Law Society.
Prior to attending law school, Ms. Ferron worked as a human resources administrator. Upon beginning her law school education, she quickly became interested in the law of the workplace. She first began working with employment law issues as an intern for the law firm of Abrahamson, Vorachek and Mikva. She also gained valuable experience working for Professor Richard J. Gonzalez in the nationally renowned legal clinic at Chicago-Kent College of Law and for employee rights advocate David L. Lee. Finally, Ms. Ferron spent a number of years working for the City of Chicago, Department of Law, where she provided counseling on employment and labor issues and defended the City against discrimination claims.
Ms. Ferron has been a long-time member of the Chicago Bar Association, serving as the co-chair of two separate committees.
Ms. Ferron has worked as an instructor for the Keller Graduate School of Management's on-line Masters degree program. She also continues to serve the public by serving as an arbitrator for Cook County's mandatory arbitration program and as an Administrative Law Officer for the City of Chicago.
Renu Thamman OF COUNSEL
email: renu@ferronlawoffice.com
Renu Thamman grew up in New Jersey and came to the state of Illinois in 1989
when she began her undergraduate education at Northwestern University. After graduating from Northwestern with a degree in English literature in 1993, she worked for a year at Kirkland and Ellis in order to gain some experience within the legal field. She then attended the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, IL and graduated cum laude in 1997.
After passing the bar examination in Illinois, Ms. Thamman worked for the City of Chicago’s Labor Division for over eight years. In this position she defended the City against discrimination claims, counseled over 10 city departments and routinely handled cases at many different administrative agencies including the City of Chicago’s Personnel and Police Boards, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.
Ms. Thamman continues to serve the public in her capacity as an arbitrator for
Cook County’s mandatory arbitration program. She joined the Ferron Law Office in September 2008 and continues to focus her work on labor and employment law as well as real estate matters. She recently tried a four-day age discrimination case
with Ms. Ferron at the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and has handled residential real estate closings.