Virtual Mentorship: An Evening with Jodi Caro, General Counsel for Ulta Beauty

Jodi Caro was named General Counsel, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer in August 2015. She also serves as Corporate Secretary and Chief Privacy Officer. Jodi oversees Ulta Beauty’s Legal, Risk & Governance Services team in delivering high quality legal, governance, compliance, risk management and property management services, as well as leading all Environmental, Social, and Governance efforts. Prior to joining Ulta Beauty, she was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Integrys Energy Group, in addition to holding the role of Integrys’ Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer. Prior to joining Integrys in 2008, Jodi owned and operated her own law practice, which provided general counsel and corporate services to clients ranging from established multi-million dollar companies to medium and small early-stage enterprises. Prior to opening her law practice in 2006, she was co-founder and General Counsel of Looking Glass Networks, a privately held, facilities-based telecommunications company and served as an in-house attorney with MCI/WORLDCOM. Jodi is also Vice-Chair of the Retail Litigation Center and serves on the Chicago-Kent College of Law Board of Advisors as well as the board of directors for Communities in Schools of Chicago.

Ada counsels clients regarding employment disputes and
compliance, conducts internal investigations, positions them for anticipated litigation, and vigorously defends them in
government investigations, administrative charges, and lawsuits.

More About Ada
With 18 years of experience as a labor and employment litigator with Seyfarth Shaw, Ada is a trusted advisor to
clients in the airline, retail, healthcare and manufacturing industries. Ada’s practice focuses on advice and counsel
and innovative litigation involving:
• complex procedural defenses including: preemption of state law claims under ERISA, Railway Labor Act,
Airline Deregulation Act, Federal Aviation Act, and the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Act (SGLIA);
Article III and statutory standing; statute of limitations; and administrative exhaustion requirements, among
others
• Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) claims, prevailing as lead counsel in the first BIPA case to be
heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• whistleblower claims under state law, AIR21, Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley
• discrimination claims in state and federal jurisdictions across the country, including under Title VII, ADA,
Section 1981, and the ADEA, and their state law counterparts, including systemic actions brought by the
EEOC

• ERISA single, multi-plaintiff and class action matters involving denial of health, disability, life, pension and
401(k) benefits, including defense of high profile “stock drop,” retiree medical and 401(k fee class actions.
Ada’s class action experience includes unique procedural issues including sustaining removal of cases to federal

court on preemption and Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) grounds, successfully opposing a named plaintiff-
intervenor, obtaining Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(f) review of class certification, obtaining appellate CAFA review and

reversal of a district court remand order, defeating and narrowing class certification, and negotiating and
overseeing settlements in classes of up to 160,000 class members.
Ada also has significant e-discovery experience in both single-plaintiff and class action matters, including the
effective and efficient management of preservation, collection, review, and production of electronically stored
information (ESI), as well as aggressively navigating disputes regarding the breadth and scope of the production
of ESI.
In 2019, Ada’s unique legal strategy in a a commercial airline matter was recognized for innovation by The
Financial Times.
Ada also co-chairs the firm's Air and Rail specialty team, and is a member of its ERISA and Employee Benefits
Litigation practice group, Whistleblower team and Health Care and Provider Fraud team.