Crone Law Firm expands to Chicago
Alan Crone, founder of the Crone Law Firm, has practiced law here for more than 30 years. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The Crone Law Firm has expanded into Chicago with a staff of experts in employment law.
“We look forward to helping employees, executives and entrepreneurs in the Chicago area find win-win solutions to workplace issues,” said Alan G. Crone, who has practiced law more than 30 years here.
He started his firm in 2016.
“We’ve been getting more and more Chicago business,” Crone said, starting with a client who introduced others.
“Illinois has employment laws that make employment law a little more important than it is here, maybe,” he said. “They have a lot more state law protections than Tennessee does for wrongful discrimination.”
In 2022, Crone expanded into St. Louis. For the short term, Edward Rolwes, that office’s managing attorney, will lead the work in Illinois. He is licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois.
The offices give Crone more access to Illinois business.
“Illinois is a big market, and it’s a lot to bite off, but we are enjoying the challenge,” Crone said. “We’ll have a fully built-out team there very soon, and we’re looking to maybe acquire a practice up there.”
Crone, a former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party, was appointed to fill Shea Flinn’s unfinished term on the Memphis City Council in 2015. He also served as special counsel to Mayor Jim Strickland in Strickland’s first term. Crone left the position in early 2020.
A few months later, Gov. Bill Lee named Crone to a statewide economic panel that advises him in the early months of the pandemic.
The Crone firm is one of few law firms in the region that practices only employment law.
The new office is in Olympia Fields, Illinois, about 35 miles south of downtown Chicago.
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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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