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FOR CLIENTS:
Mike vigorously represents the interests of workers, as well as their unions and benefit funds. He has 30 years of experience in handling labor, employee benefits, and other employment law issues under ERISA, the Labor Management Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and various New York statutes. Mike’s representation takes many forms:
- • Advising union leadership on legal issues, including contract negotiation and enforcement, and representing
clients before the NLRB, the Department of Labor, and PERB
- • Serving as counsel to multiemployer employee benefit plans
- • Representing unions, benefit plans and individual employees in litigation
- • Ensuring plan compliance
with ERISA and the Internal
Revenue Code
Mike’s extensive experience in labor arbitration was recognized with his receipt of the Distinguished Service Award in Labor Arbitration from the American Arbitration Association in 1994. He serves as counsel to the Rochester & Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Between 1978 and 1998, he taught in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Rochester Extension Office. And for the past 15 years, he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America.
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FOR PROFESSION
Mike is active in local, state, and national attorney organizations:
- • Monroe County Bar Association
- - Member of Board of Trustees, 2003 2005
- - President’s Commission on Access to Justice, past chair
- - Employment and Labor Law Committee, past chair
- • New York State Bar Association
- - House of Delegates, 2001-2003 and 2004-present
- - Labor and Employment Law
Section (now serves on the Section’s Executive Committee), past chair
- - Frequent speaker at NYSBA
- • AV rated by Martindale Hubbell™
- • American Bar Association
- - Labor and Employment Law Section’s Employee Benefits Committee
- • AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating
Committee and the National
Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans
- • Monroe County Legal Assistance Corporation, past chair
- • Legal Assistance of Western New York
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FOR COMMUNITY
Mike is also active in the Rochester community, working with these
organizations:
- • Otetiana Council, Boy Scouts of America, vice president and Exploring chair
- • John F. Wegman Fund of the Rochester Area Community Foundation, Board member and past president
- • Genesee Valley Civil Liberties Union, past chair
- • Wilson Alliance, founder
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