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Attorney also will be featured at the Society for Human Resource Management's Annual Conference in New Orleans on June 29
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin will moderate a three person panel for the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section's nationally provided webinar on Hot Topics in Wage and Hour Law on June 17.
In addition, Mr. Boonin will be a featured speaker at the Society for Human Resource Management's Annual Conference in New Orleans on June 29. His presentation will focus on wage and hour compliance.
Based in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office, 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 over 30 jurisdictions, in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage and hour 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.
Mr. Boonin is active in national and state bar association sections in labor and employment 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 and Chair-Elect of the Wage and Hour Defense Institute of the Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Boonin is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Law Lawyers (a prestigious and highly limited national honorary of employment law practitioners). He 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 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).
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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