Weiler Law PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Weiler Law PLLC is an employment law and business litigation firm with offices in Phoenix, Arizona and the Chicago area. The firm also handles professional license defense and medical professional board representation. That mix keeps its work centered on disputes between people and the institutions they work for or answer to.

The employment practice reaches most of the situations that push a worker or an employer toward a lawyer. It covers workplace discrimination, harassment, wage and pay disputes, and the terms that govern how jobs begin and end. The firm represents both employees and employers, so it sees these questions from each side.

In my opinion the plainest thing to say about the firm is that it picks a lane and stays in it. Employment and business litigation share a common thread: contracts, conduct at work, and the fallout when relationships break down. The medical board work sits beside that as a defense practice for licensed professionals.

What the employment practice covers

On the discrimination side, the firm takes claims based on disability, gender, race, religion, and age. It handles sexual harassment matters, along with retaliation and whistleblower claims. It also works on cases under the Family and Medical Leave Act, where the question is often whether protected leave was honored.

Pay disputes form a large part of the load. The firm handles wage and hour matters involving overtime, minimum wage, and the misclassification of workers as independent contractors. It also pursues claims for unpaid final paychecks. These cases turn on records and hours, which makes them a distinct kind of work from a discrimination claim.

The firm also handles the end of employment and the paperwork around it. That includes wrongful termination and constructive discharge, where a worker leaves under pressure rather than by choice. It covers disputes over non-compete, non-solicitation, and severance agreements, the documents that decide what a person can do after a job ends.

Business litigation and license defense

The business litigation practice deals with conflicts inside and between companies. Listed areas include breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and defamation. The firm also handles misappropriation of trade secrets, partnership disputes, tortious interference, unfair competition, and antitrust matters.

The medical board practice is narrower and more defensive. It covers Arizona Board of Nursing investigations, disciplinary hearings, and license applications. A nurse facing a board inquiry has a career at stake, and this part of the firm's work speaks to that audience directly.

As a reviewer, I read the pairing of employment law and license defense as a sensible fit rather than a stretch. Both ask a lawyer to defend a person's standing and livelihood against a larger body, whether that body is an employer or a state board.

How the team is built

The site names four attorneys: James Weiler, Jason Barrat, Amanda Kuklinski, and Kelsey Whalen. Each is listed as an attorney. Their backgrounds point toward the employment focus the firm describes.

James Weiler

James Weiler is a partner at the firm. He earned his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and holds a B.S. in Finance, Real Estate and Urban Analysis from Ohio State University. Before this firm, he was a partner at Zoldan Law Group PLLC from 2017 to 2022. His practice centers on employment litigation, including discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination.

Jason Barrat

Jason Barrat is a partner whose practice concentrates on wage and hour employment law. He represents employees in matters involving unpaid minimum wages, overtime, misclassification as independent contractors, and unpaid final paychecks, and he files primarily in federal court. He holds a B.A. in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and an MBA.

Amanda Kuklinski

Amanda Kuklinski earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 2011 and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2015, with a concentration in labor and employment law. Her practice focuses on representing employees, including in employment discrimination and Family and Medical Leave Act matters.

Kelsey Whalen

Kelsey Whalen focuses on employment matters, including workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation. She completed her undergraduate degree in Sports Management with a minor in Business at Eastern Kentucky University. She earned her J.D. from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Where the firm works and who it represents

The firm represents clients throughout the Phoenix metro area and the Chicago area. That two-city reach matches the attorneys' own paths, which run through Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Arizona. For a person weighing where to bring a claim, the presence in both markets is a practical detail worth knowing.

Because the firm works for employees and employers alike, a prospective client should ask early which side a given attorney tends to take in a matter like theirs. The wage and hour practice, for instance, is described in terms of representing employees, while the broader employment work names both sides. Clarifying that at the outset saves confusion later.

The record here is what the firm itself publishes: a defined set of practice areas, four named attorneys with stated credentials, and a base in Phoenix with reach into Chicago. There are no case results or figures on the site to weigh, so this review rests on scope and staffing rather than outcomes. In my opinion that is enough to tell a reader what the firm does and who does it, which is the honest use of a directory listing.