FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin has been named President of the Litigation Counsel of America, a national honorary trial lawyer society with membership limited to no more than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Mr. Boonin's term runs through 2008. He is a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America as well.
The Litigation Counsel of America's mission is to recognize experienced, highly qualified lawyers, to promote superior advocacy and ethical standards in the practice of law, and to promote community involvement.
Mr. Boonin's practice is largely concentrated in the areas of labor, employment, 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 active in national and state bar association sections in labor and employment law. He is a member of the governing council of the Michigan Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section, and he is past president, board member and a founder of the Michigan Council of School Attorneys. He is a member of the NSBA's Council of School Attorneys, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and the local chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (formerly IRRA). He 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 is an active member of the American Bar Association's Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee and the American Employment Law Council. He has been repeatedly recognized as one of Michigan's "Super Lawyers" in labor and employment law matters.
Mr. Boonin frequently publishes articles on employment law. Among his publications are: "The Constitutional Constraints in Dealing with Drug Abuse in the Schools," Michigan Bar Journal (Nov. 1989); "Wage and Hour Law for Michigan Public Employers, Michigan Public Employers, Michigan Public Employment and Labor Relations Law," (MPELRA 1994); "Damage Recoverable in the Employment Case, Michigan Wrongful Discharge and Employment Law," (ICLE 1994), MPELRA Manual Chapter on FLSA for Public Employers; numerous articles on the new overtime regulations; and Damages in Employment Litigation (ICLE). In addition, Mr. Boonin is a Chapter Editor of the recently released fourth edition of highly regarded ABA treatise Employment Discrimination, and a contributor to the annual supplements of the ABA's treatise The Fair Labor Standards Act (BNA 2007). He also is on the Editorial Advisory Board of each of Thompson Publishing Group's four legal services on wage and hour law.
In addition, Mr. Boonin regularly speaks on employment law before legal and other professional groups. Among his recent presentations are two at the national conference of the Society for Human Resource Management in Las Vegas. He also is a regularly featured as a speaker on wage and hour law at the Institute of Continuing Legal Education's Annual Employment Law Institutes.
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). Mr. Boonin is a resident of Ann Arbor.
Butzel Long is one of the oldest and largest law firms in the United States with headquarters in Michigan. It was established in 1854, and today has 235 attorneys at offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Holland, Mich., New York City, Washington, D.C., Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Fla., as well as Alliance offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China and Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico. The firm represents clients from diverse industries on regional, national and multinational levels, 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.
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