Sander Weiner

Sander Weiner

Sander Weiner is an Associate in the Jacksonville office of Wicker Smith where he focuses his practice on commercial litigation, premises liability, and labor and employment issues. He is licensed in Illinois and Florida.

He graduated in 2017 from the Chicago-Kent College of Law with a Juris Doctor with a concentration in Labor and Employment Law. He holds a Bachelor of Administration in Philosophy from Northeastern Illinois University where he graduated summa cum laude.

Prior to joining Wicker Smith, Sander spent more than 4 years as an Attorney with the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council where he successfully negotiated dozens of public employment collective bargaining agreements. He acted as lead counsel in over 200 litigated grievance arbitrations and settled many other individual and class action grievances. He co-wrote and successfully lobbied for the passage of the Illinois Service Members Employment and Reemployment Act on behalf of military service members and law enforcement citizen soldiers.

During law school, Sander served as a law clerk with a large business law firm in Chicago, Illinois. After law school he stayed on as an Attorney where he gained experience in the defense of litigated workers’ compensation claims. He also serviced as co-chair of the firm’s Veteran’s Affinity Group and participated in the firm’s first Diversity Conference.

Sander also served our country as a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army where he was a cavalry squad leader in Iraq.

• The Illinois Bar Association
• S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois