Bar Fellowship
in the American College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. Listed in Euromoney Guides to the World's Leading Lawyers and Leading U.S. Labor and Employment Lawyers. Co-Chair, National Finance Industry Employment Law Committee; Member, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Committee; Member, National Retail Federation Committee on Employment Law; Attorney, Enforcement and Advice Divisions, National Labor Relations Board, 1973-1979. Equal Employment Opportunity, Employee Rights, and Employee Benefits Subcommittees of the ABA Labor Section; Employment Litigation Subcommittees; ABA Litigation Section; Labor Section Liaison Chair with the Michigan Offices of the EEOC and OFCCP. Program Chair, ABA Equal Employment Opportunity Subcommittee, Labor Section, 1986-1989. Member, Editorial Advisory Boards, Employee Relations and Employee Benefits Law Journal. Member, Board of Directors of Grand Rapids Urban League, 1989-1992. Adjunt Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Davenport College. Chapter Editor and Contributing Writer for Lindemann and Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law. Columnist on Employment Litigation for Employee Relations Law Journal and Benefits Law Journal include: Speaker, October 2002, American Employment Law Council 10th Annual Conference, The Shrinking Workforce: A Case Study of Downsizing, Layoffs and RIFS; Speaker, 2002 National Employment Law Institute Annual Advanced Employment Litigation Program, Motion Practice in Employment Law Cases; Speaker, March 2002 Mid-Winter Meeting of ABA EEO Subcommittee, Practical and Legal issues associated with a reduction-in-force involving plant closures, relocation of work, and Section 510 of ERISA; Speaker, Practising Law Institute, 30th Annual Institute on Employment Law, The Big Risk: Class Actions and Pattern Cases and Practice Cases, October 2001; Speaker, The Southwestern Legal Foundation 48th Annual Institute on Labor and Employment Law, October 2001 "Class and Collective Action Overview and Update"; Professional Liability Underwriting Society's LPL-EPL Insurance Issues Symposium 2001 Class Action Update; Chicago-Kent College of Law's "Employment Issues Changing Corporate World," 2001; Co-Chairman and Speaker, Glasser LegalWorks 2001 Class Action Program; Co-Chairman and Speaker, Glasser LegalWorks, 2000 Class Action program, The Big Risk: Class Actions and Pattern Cases and Practice Cases, September 2000; Speaker, Practising Law Institute, 29th Annual Institute on Employment Law, The Big Risk: Class Actions and Pattern and Practice Cases, October 2000; Speaker, The Southwestern Legal Foundation 47th Annual Institute on Labor and Employment Law, October 2000; Speaker, Practising Law Institute, 28th Annual Institute on Employment Law, The Big Risk: Class Actions and Pattern and Practice Cases, November 15-16, 1999. Speaker, The Seventh Annual Conference, The American Employment Law Council, The EEOC as Plaintiff and Intervener, October 1999; Speaker, The Southwestern Legal Foundation 46th Annual Institute on Labor and Employment Law, Strategies for Defending Class Actions/Big Cases. Media Problems - Employee Communication Class Certification - Discovery, Motions in Limine, Dealing with Opposing Counsel, EEOC, et al; October 1999; Speaker, National Employment Law Institute (NELI),
Employee Benefits Litigation, Chicago, IL, November, 1998; Speaker, 27th Annual Employment Law Institute,
The Big Risk: Class Actions and Pattern and Practice Cases, Chicago, IL, November 1998; Co-Chairman and Speaker, Glasser LegalWorks, Sexual Harassment and Other Employment Issues: Rethinking Workplace Practices After the Recent Supreme Court Term, New York, New York, October 1998; ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July - August, 1998, Reverse Discrimination/Affirmative Action Litigation Update: Where is it Going?; Speaker, National Employment Law Institute, 22nd Annual Employment Discrimination Law Update, San Francisco, California, July 1998, Chicago, Illinois, July 1998, Washington, D.C., August 1998; Speaker, Practicing Law Institute, Litigating Employment Discrimination Class Action Cases, New York, New York, June 1998, The EEO Class Action in the New Millennium; Speaker, 15th Annual Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 1998, Strategic Litigation and Settlement Techniques in Employment Law Cases; Co-Chairman and Speaker, Glasser LegalWorks, Litigation & Settlement of Complex Employment Class Actions, San Francisco, California, April 1998, Public Relations and Communication Issues Before and After Class Certification. Speaker, ABA National Institute, Americans with Disabilities Act, February 1998; Selecting and Using Experts in ADA Cases; Class Action Litigation Communicating with the Public and Class Members, Employee Rel. L.J., Vol. 23 No.3, Winter, 1997; Speaker: National Employment Law Institute, "Employee Benefits Litigation," Chicago, Illinois, November, 1996; The Southwestern Legal Foundation Forty-Second Ann. Institute on Labor and Employment Law, "ADR-Growing Use of Mediation/Arbitration to Handle Employment Claims/Cases; 1995 Ann. ABA Meeting, "A Defense Perspective of the After-Acquired Evidence Defense After McKennon," ABA Employee Rights and Responsibilities Subcommittee, March, 1995, "Settlements - the Right Time - the Right Amount - the Right Language"; ABA EEO Subcommittee Midwinter Committee Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March, 1994, "Retiree Insurance Benefit and Early Retirement Incentive Plan Litigation;" The Corporate Bar Association of Westchester and Fairfield, Inc. May, 1994 "Employee Benefits Litigation;" New York University's 47th Annual National Conference on Labor, June 1994, "Litigation Under Section 510 of ERISA" and "After-Acquired Evidence;" Chair and Speaker: Michigan ICLE Update on Employment Discrimination and Litigation, June, 1994, "Negotiating and Drafting Settlement Agreements;" National Employment Law Institute on Litigating Glass Ceilings, May, 1994, "Litigating Glass Ceiling Cases;" Co-Chair, Prentice Hall Second Annual Employment Litigation Institute, February, 1993, San Francisco, California and New York City Co-Chair and Speaker on The Controversy Over an Employer's Obligation to Continue to Provide Post-Retirement Benefits; Co-Chair, 1992 Prentice Hall Seminar on The Civil Rights Act of 1991 and Sexual Harassment Developments, "Establishing and Administering Policies Against Racial and Sexual Harassment," Chicago. Co-Chair of 1992 ICLE Seminar on "Defending Claims Under ADA," Dearborn, Michigan. Speaker, ABA National Institute Section of Labor and Employment Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, October, 1992, "Alternative Dispute Resolution of Employment Issues," Co-Chair, 1991 Prentice Hall Annual Employment Law Institute, "The Controversy Over the Duration of an Employer's Obligation to Continue to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits to Retirees," 1990 Defense Research Institute's ERISA Litigation Seminar, NYC, "Protected Rights Under Section 510 of ERISA: "Avoiding Something for Nothing;" 1990 ALI-ABA Advanced ERISA Program, "The Controversy Over an Employers' Obligation to Continue to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits to Retirees," Phoenix, Arizona; Practicing Law Institute's January 1990 Employment Litigation Seminar, on "Benefit Administration and Litigation;" Financial Accounting Standards Board Hearings on FASB's proposed "Exposure Draft for Employers Accounting for Post-Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions;" 1990 Southwestern Legal Foundation's 36th Annual Institute on Labor Law, "The Controversy Over an Employers' Obligation to Continue to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits to Retirees;" Vanderbilt Law School's 1989 Symposium on EEO Developments, Nashville, Tennessee; Co-Chairman, September 27-28, 1989 Employment Claims and Litigation Conference, Executive Enterprises in Chicago, Illinois. Speaker, "Employee Benefit Litigation Over Retiree Insurance Benefits and Under Section 510 of ERISA;" June 1989 CCH Toronto, Canada Seminar, "Employee Benefit Regulation - Pension and Health Care Issues, Severance Pay, Employee Litigation;" "Establishing an Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures;" Practicing Law Institute's April 1988 Annual Employment Litigation Presentation, NYC. Chair, Executive Enterprises Seminar on "Age Discrimination, Wrongful Discharge and Employee Benefit Litigation." Employee Rel. Journal articles include: "Litigating to Settlement on your terms," "Update on Recent Trends in the Law: After-Acquired Evidence, Fraudulent Joinder and Alternative Dispute Resolution," Diversity of Citizenship is a Virtue Everywhere but in Federal Court: Joinder of Non-Diverse Individual Developments to Defeat Federal Jurisdiction of Employment Disputes," and Joinder of Individual Defendants in Employment Litigation: Is Removal Still Possible." Member: American Bar Association (Member, Equal Employment Opportunity, Employee Rights and Employee Benefits Subcommittees of the Labor Section; Employment Litigation Subcommittee, Litigation).
