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Attorney also a featured speaker at several local and national events
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin was elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a prestigious and highly limited national honorary of employment law practitioners. Throughout North America, fewer than one thousand attorneys have attained the status as Fellows of the College.
Mr. Boonin will be inducted during the 13th Annual Induction Dinner on September 13 in Denver. The event coincides with the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section's Continuing Legal Education Conference.
Mr. Boonin also is an attorney in demand by other professional organizations. In late October, Mr. Boonin will travel to Napa Valley, Calif. to chair the Litigation Counsel of America's (LCA) 2008 Fall Conference. Mr. Boonin was named President of LCA earlier this year and is an LCA Fellow, as well. LCA is a strictly vetted national honorary trial lawyer society with membership limited to no more than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Mr. Boonin also is a founder of the recently formed Wage and Hour Defense Institute, and is slated to be elected an officer of the Institute in October.
Additionally, Mr. Boonin regularly speaks on wage and hour compliance issues before legal and other professional groups. He recently gave two presentations at the Society of Human Resource Management's (SHRM) Annual Conference in Chicago. Mr. Boonin also presented a day-long workshop in Troy for the World at Work. In addition, he spoke in Mexico City on July 9th at the preeminent conference for Mexican automobile industry officials, on how the latest round of UAW agreements may impact that industry.
Mr. Boonin's practice is largely concentrated in the areas of labor, employment discrimination, public contract and education law. He has represented public and private sector clients across the country in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage and hour and other employment-related lawsuits, as well as in labor grievance arbitrations, labor negotiations, unfair labor practices and representational proceedings.
Mr. Boonin is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 1985) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics 1976). He also holds a master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University (M.L.I.R. 1980). Mr. Boonin is a resident of Ann Arbor.
About Butzel Long
Butzel Long was established in 1854 and is headquartered in Detroit. Butzel Long is one of America's leading law firms, with 240 attorneys and offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Holland, Michigan, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Alliance offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City and Monterrey. The firm represents clients from diverse industries on a regional, national and multi-national level and is the sole Michigan member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com(http://www.butzel.com/).
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