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Attorney also featured during conferences in Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin is chair-elect of the Wage & Hour Defense Institute (WHDI) of the Litigation Counsel of America, comprised of rigidly selected and experienced wage and hour defense attorneys from across the United States. Mr. Boonin is also a co-founder of the WHDI. The WHDI serves as a nationwide network and meeting ground for top-tier practitioners to engage in professional development in what has become a highly nuanced area of the law, and also to become an established resource for employers on wage and hour matters. Each member was selected for membership in the WHDI based on his or her individual skills and experience representing management in the defense of wage and hour litigation.
Mr. Boonin also is a speaker in demand. On October 1, he will be presenting at two seminars during the Annual Conference of the Michigan College and University Professionals Association for Human Resources. Mr. Boonin will discuss wage and hour issues for college and university employers as well as employment-related bills pending in Washington, D.C.and Lansing.
On September 15, Mr. Boonin was the featured speaker during the National Academy of Arbitrators’ regional meeting in Plymouth.
Based in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office, Mr. Boonin's practice is largely concentrated in the areas of wage and hour, labor and other employment law matters. He has represented public and private sector clients across the country, in over thirty jurisdictions, in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage and hour, tenure proceedings and other employment-related lawsuits and claims, as well as in labor grievance arbitrations, labor negotiations, unfair labor practices and representational proceedings and labor strikes.
His public sector clients include universities, community colleges, K-12 school districts, charter schools, as well as cities and townships. He has negotiated well over one hundred collective bargaining agreements, and he has also successfully represented employers in over one hundred arbitration cases. He also is well versed in NLRB issues, having extensively practiced before that agency in many NLRB Regions.
Mr. Boonin is active in national and state bar association sections in labor and employment law and public contract law. He is an active member of the American Bar Association's Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee and the American Employment Law Council. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (a national legal honorary) and is its Immediate Past-President. He also is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (a prestigious and highly limited national honorary of employment law practitioners). Mr. Boonin has been repeatedly recognized by his peers as a Super Lawyer in labor and employment law matters.
His other professional services include being a member of the governing board of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Michigan Bar Association, Past-President, Board member and a founder of the Michigan Council of School Attorneys, a member of the NSBA's Council of School Attorneys, a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and a member of the local chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly IRRA). He also is a past chair of the Washtenaw County Bar Association's Employment Law Section, and is current Co-Chair of its Trial Practice Section.
Mr. Boonin frequently publishes articles and presents at conferences on various topics involving labor and employment law matters.
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 Masters Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University (M.L.I.R. 1980). Prior to law school, Mr. Boonin served on the labor relations staff of the Michigan Association of School Boards (1978-1982), representing Michigan school districts in their labor relations. Before graduate school, Mr. Boonin worked for the Legislators' Education Action Project of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Washington, D.C. (1975-76).
About Butzel Long
Butzel Long is one of America's leading law firms, with 240 attorneys and offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing and Ann Arbor, 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 is also a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm Butzel Long Tighe Patton. Butzel Long represents clients from diverse industries on a regional, national and multi-national level and is a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com.
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