The managing partner of a Chicago law firm apparently monitored his employees with video cameras and a telephone system that allowed recording of phone calls, according to a lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Chicago.
The April 7 suit claims that the law firm’s managing partner, Edward “Eddie” Vrdolyak Jr., had a “fixation with audio and video surveillance.”
The suit cites “information and belief” that the firm’s offices in Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee, were equipped with a network of audio and surveillance cameras that Vrodyak monitored from several video screens in his office.
The suit plaintiff is Daniel Alholm, who opened a new Nashville, Tennessee, office for the personal injury law firm, the Vrdolyak Law Group, after being asked to do so in August 2017. Alholm said he resigned from the firm in January 2020 after asking Illinois and Tennessee lawyer regulators about his ethical duties following reports of surveillance.
Alholm’s suit alleges, based on information and belief, that:
• Vrdolyak directed an employee to call Alholm to tell him that he was watching the cameras for the Nashville office and could see that employees were spending too much time on their cellphones.
• Vrdolyak regularly instructed law firm employees to conduct “voicemail audits” in which they reviewed other employees’ voicemail messages. Unanswered voicemail messages were to be reported to Vrdolyak.
• Vrdolyak instructed an employee to “pull the tape” on a February 2019 conference...
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