Charles Elbert represents private and public sector employers in a broad range of labor relations and employment matters, including: arbitration; litigation, such as defense of employment discrimination, and other employee and administrative agency claims in Missouri and Illinois federal and state courts; internal investigations; covenants not to compete; equal employment, affirmative action and wage-hour; federal, state and local agency investigations and audits; union avoidance; NLRB and State Board proceedings; collective bargaining; employment policies and agreements; and, claim avoidance counseling.

Mr. Elbert’s commercial litigation experience in federal and state courts and in arbitration includes contract breach and interpretation, shareholder/member disputes, premises liability, real estate, and tax increment financing (TIF). He also has served as an arbitrator, special master and mediator in a wide variety of disputes.

Mr. Elbert’s general corporate and real estate practice involves entity formation; negotiating and drafting of business, employment and real estate contracts; acquisition and sale of closely held companies and real estate; drafting and review of loan documents; and closings.

Areas of Practice

• Labor and Employment Law

• Litigation

• Corporate & Real Estate

• Education Law

Education

• St. Louis University, J.D., cum laude

• Washington University, A.B.

Bar Admissions

• Missouri

• Illinois

• United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri

• United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

• Supreme Court of the United States

Professional Associations, Memberships & Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America®2008 in Labor and Employment Law

• The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Member, Labor Law Section)

• The Missouri Bar Association
  (Member, Labor Law Section)

• Illinois State Bar Association
  (Member, Labor Law Section)

• American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment Law; Business Law)

• American Arbitration Association, Neutrals Panel

• Special Representative, 22nd Judicial Circuit Bar Committee (1978-1988)

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Comments Editor, St. Louis University Law Journal




• CLE Presentations on Labor and Employment Law




• Author: "Employment Discrimination Claims under §1981," Missouri Employment Discrimination, Second (2008)