Jill Pedigo Hall

Biography

Jill Pedigo Hall combines years of experience in operating her own company with years of employment law practice to provide creative, strategic counsel and defense to employers of every size on a full range of employment issues. This depth of experience allows her to provide legal assistance to employers in ways that maximize opportunity, minimize risk, and support long-term business goals.

Ms. Hall focuses on counsel and defense in the areas of discrimination and medical leaves, with an emphasis on FMLA administration and disability litigation, affirmative action, and employer strategy in handling social media and electronic communication systems within the workplace. Ms. Hall conducts OFCCP compliance and investigations programs. She also provides OFCCP technical assistance and compliance review representation to federal contractors and constituency groups.

She has developed and assisted in the oversight of voluntary and involuntary furlough and retirement programs and reductions in force. Ms. Hall has drafted handbooks, policies, and implementation manuals. She has counseled clients in the design, development, and implementation of affirmative action strategies to ensure compliance, while at the same time, building diversity on a schedule that is realistic for that client. Ms. Hall frequently lectures and conducts in-house management and supervisor training for human resource organizations and companies of all sizes in the areas of medical leave management, social media and electronic communication management, and illegal harassment. She has served as an adjunct professor with the Marquette Graduate School of Management teaching employment law. She was also the primary contributing author of the FMLA Manual for Wisconsin Employers.

Ms. Hall is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the U.S. District Court of Minnesota and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. In addition to these courts, she has practiced before the various state fair employment agencies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Ms. Hall is a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center. Her professional memberships include the State Bars of Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Milwaukee Bar Association, the Labor and Employment Division of the American Bar Association, the Industry Liaison Group (ILG), and the Society of Human Resources Management.

Ms. Hall received an A.B., cum laude, in Psychology from Ripon College and her J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• University of Iowa College of Law, J.D.
• Ripon College, A.B., cum laude, Psychology

Bar Admissions

• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
• U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

In the News

• 1/17/2007 - Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan Promotions

Publications