Catherine Seidelman

Prior to joining Littler, Catherine Seidelman served for over a decade at two federal agencies with the federal government — the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

At the U.S. Department of Labor, her last role was as a senior attorney in the Office of the Solicitor in the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. In that role, Catherine focused exclusively on OSHA matters and was responsible for negotiating corporate-wide settlement agreements, reviewing significant enforcement cases, assisting OSHA with rulemaking, and serving as a coordinator for OSHA whistleblower matters. Prior to that, she worked in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Chicago Regional Solicitor’s Office as a senior trial attorney, litigating OSHA, FLSA, and FMLA cases. Catherine also represented management officials in employment discrimination cases before the EEOC and successfully defended the DOL in a grievance arbitration. At the Chicago RSOL office, Catherine served as the office’s FMLA coordinator, OSHA warrant coordinator, and the coordinator for OSHA partnerships and alliances. She also frequently served as an instructor at OSHA’s Training Institute, training OSHA compliance officers and OSHA supervisors.

Prior to her time at the DOL, Catherine was a field attorney at the NLRB in Regions 13 and 18. She litigated unfair labor practice cases (first chairing several trials), oversaw union elections, and served as a hearing officer in representation cases.

Catherine also was in private practice at a small management-side labor and employment firm, where she represented mainly public-sector employers.