James Daniels

Deputy General Counsel – Labor Relations

Illinois Department of Central Management Services

James Daniels has worked for Central Management Services at the State of Illinois for seven years, and is currently the Deputy General Counsel over Labor Relations, where he administers all grievance arbitrations arising out of the 40 agencies under the Governor’s Office. Before that he worked as labor counsel at the Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council for eleven years, negotiating over a hundred contracts and arbitrating numerous grievances arbitrations and interest arbitrations. He is a graduate of John Marshall Law School.