Representative Experience
Providing legal support, strategic advice, training, and extensive communications guidance to employers during traditional union organizing drives and corporate campaigns

Represent employers before the National Labor Relations Board

Negotiate collective bargaining agreements for employers and provide contract administration advice

Represent employers during grievances and arbitration hearings

Provide advice and counsel to employers on a wide variety of labor and employment law issues, including hiring, promotion, discipline, and termination

Conduct practical and effective training on current workplace issues, including how to maintain an issue-free workplace, sexual harassment, wage & hour laws, and supervisor communication skills

Prior Experience
Partner, Jackson Lewis, LLP, San Francisco, California

Field Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, New Orleans, Louisiana

Publications
Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (1999-present)

Honors
Named “One of Top 100 Labor Lawyers in America” by the Labor Relations Institute, 2006-2008.*

Bar Memberships
California and Illinois State Bars

Education
J.D., Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1991

B.S. in Political Science, B.A. in International Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1987

* This award is granted annually by LRI to only 100 of over 8,600 practicing labor lawyers. Determination is based on the number of NLRB elections handled and the success of those election outcomes.