Member

Representative Matters

• Obtained orders from federal district courts vacating arbitration awards issued under the Railway Labor Act and the Labor Management Relations Act.  In both cases, the arbitrator had exceeded his authority by altering the terms of the collective bargaining agreement.
• Secured dismissal of NLRB petitions filed in three separate areas of the U.S. involving coordinated union attempts to organize independent contractors.
• Successfully defended a class action brought by Communication Workers of America employees, against the company and the union, claiming they had been denied severance benefits. Showed that the company's severance practices did not violate the collective bargaining agreement - a required element in the plaintiff's claims. Plaintiffs, in response, dropped the entire case with prejudice.
• Obtained dismissal, for a large cable operator just prior to its sale, of several decertification petitions alleging that the cable operator had induced and/or improperly assisted employees seeking to decertify the union.
• Twice successfully defended accusations from the United Food and Commercial Workers union that the client refused to recognize a particular union representative - winning first before the NLRB over union accusations that the client's conduct was an unfair labor practice and winning the second time in federal court - where the Court was persuaded to deny the Union's Motion to Compel arbitration because the dispute was subject to the primary jurisdiction of the NLRB.

Professional Activities

• Chapter Editor, The Developing Labor Law
  
• Member of American Bar Association Committee on Development of the Law Under the National Labor Relations Act
• Management Representative to National Labor Relations Board Practice and Procedure Committee, Region 27
• Speaker, Colorado Hospital Association, 2007-2011

Publications and Presentations

• Presenter, "Routine Remedy or Radical Departure--Is Backpay for Unlawful Immigrants Beyond the Scope of the Board's Remedial Processes?" 2012 Midwinter Meeting, ABA Committee on Development of the Law Under the National Labor Relations Act
• Co-author, Routine Remedy or Radical Departure--Is Backpay for Unlawful Immigrants Beyond the Scope of the Board's Remedial Processes? Mezonos Maven Bakery, 357 NLRB No. 47 (2011)
• Speaker, Midwinter Meeting of the American Bar Association's Committee on the Development of the Law under the National Labor Relations Act, 2007
• Speaker, Colorado Hospitality Association and the Colorado Hospital Association regarding union organizing developments in the State of Colorado, 2007
• Regular Speaker, Institute for Applied Management and Law

Education

• Juris Doctor, St. John's University School of Law, 1996
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Florida, 1991