Adele Rapport Biography
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Adele Rapport is Senior Counsel with the Law Office of Richard T.
Seymour P.L.L.C. She graduated from the University of Michigan Law
School cum laude in 1980. After graduation, Ms. Rapport joined Arnstein
& Lehr in Chicago where she handled a variety of cases involving
labor and employment, products liability, personal injury, consumer
fraud and deceptive practices, and restrictive covenant issues.
Her clients included many fortune five companies, local health care
facilities and educational institutions as well as doctors, business
executives, and entrepreneurs. In the latter part of her career
with the Arnstein firm Ms. Rapport began to specialize in labor
and employment litigation and ultimately became the Chair of the
firm’s Employment Litigation department. In this capacity,
she litigated and supervised litigation in a variety of employment
cases while at the same time counseling clients on employment issues,
conducting training seminars, and drafting employment and severance
agreements.
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In 1991, Ms. Rapport moved to Michigan following her husband’s
transfer to Detroit. She then began practicing with Charfoos, Reiter,
Peterson & Holmquist, a boutique labor and employment law firm where
she continued to handle the same type of labor and employment work she
had handled at Arnstein.
In March 1993, Evan Kemp, then Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, appointed Ms. Rapport as the Regional Attorney for the Detroit
District Office of the EEOC. During her 13 year tenure with the EEOC Ms.
Rapport and the legal unit staff working under her direction were responsible
for enforcing the federal anti discrimination laws in Michigan. She was
also called upon to handle matters in other states and developed a specialty
in disability and religious discrimination law. Ms. Rapport continued
to personally handle litigation in addition to her supervisory responsibilities.
Ms. Rapport has also been very active in bar associations through out
her career. She is a former member of the Labor Council of the State Bar
of Michigan and the Former Public Chair of the Employment Rights and Responsibilities
Sub Committee and the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the American
Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section. In 2006, the President
of the ABA appointed Ms. Rapport to the Standing CLE Committee. Ms. Rapport
also became the Chair for the Executive Board of the American Trial Lawyers
Association’s Employment Rights Section in 2006. In addition, Ms.
Rapport serves as a Governor on the Board of Governors for the College
of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
In connection with her bar association activities and her responsibilities
as Regional Attorney, Ms. Rapport has been a frequent speaker and trainer
on employment discrimination topics through out the country. In addition,
from 1994-2006 she was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University Of
Detroit Mercy School Of Law where she taught employment discrimination
and disability rights courses.
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