Mr. Smeltzer has over 25 years of federal and state court experience in all phases of labor and employment, commercial, and non-patent intellectual property litigation and counseling.

He has handled countless Title VII, ADEA, ADA, FLSA, NLRA, ERISA and FMLA matters before the EEOC, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the Chicago Commission on Human Relations, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and state and federal courts.

In addition, Mr. Smeltzer regularly represents clients in cases involving employment related torts (e.g. defamation, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference); wrongful discharge, employee handbook, and wage and sales commission disputes. He is an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University School of Law, where he has taught comprehensive courses in Labor Law, Employment Law and Employment Discrimination, and has contributed to several major treatises in the area, including Holloway & Leech, Employment Termination — Rights and Remedies (BNA 1993) and Tobias, Litigating Wrongful Discharge Claims, (Callahan, 1989). He also conducts sexual harassment investigations and training.

With respect to commercial litigation, Mr. Smeltzer regularly handles complex restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation, contract disputes and business torts litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country. He regularly handles trademark, trade dress and copyright infringement cases, as well as related state law actions for unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation and common law infringement, in state and federal courts throughout the country. Mr. Smeltzer has experience drafting and negotiating licenses and continually prosecutes trademark and copyright registrations before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Copyright Office. He also handles appeals, cancellations and other proceedings before the TTAB.