FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin, a frequent speaker on labor and employment matters, will be a featured speaker during the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference & Exhibition June 24-27, 2012 in Atlanta.
SHRM is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management and represents more than 250,000 members in more than 140 countries. This conference is one of the largest of its kind and attracts more than 13,000 HR professionals from around the world. This is the sixth consecutive year Mr. Boonin has been invited to speak at this conference.
The title of Mr. Boonin’s presentation is: “Wage & Hour Compliance: Avoiding Lawsuits and Liability.”
“I’ll discuss the Department of Labor’s latest enforcement trends and intiatives as well as the most common errors employers make in classifying employees as exempt, capturing all ‘hours worked’ for pay purposes, and calculating the overtime pay due,” said Mr. Boonin.
Based in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office, Mr. Boonin's law practice is largely concentrated in the areas of labor, employment discrimination and education law. He has represented public and private sector clients across the country, in more than 30 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. He also has served as a chapter editor for two highly regarded legal treatises, Employment Discrimination Law and The Fair Labor Standards Act.
Mr. Boonin is active in national and state bar association sections in labor and employment law and public contract law. Mr. Boonin also is Chair of the Wage and Hour Defense Institute of the Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Boonin is a co-founder of this national group of defense experts which was established four years ago.
Mr. Boonin is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee and the American Employment Law Council. He is a Fellow and Past-President of the Litigation Counsel of America (a national legal honorary).
He also 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 recognized by his peers as a Super Lawyer in labor and employment law matters in every year that distinction is made. His other professional services include: 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.
Mr. Boonin is a past chair of the Washtenaw County Bar Association’s Employment Law Section, and a past Co-Chair of its Trial Practice Section. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Regional Chamber of Commerce and Ann Arbor’s Main Street Area Association.
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).
About Butzel Long
Established in 1854, Butzel Long is a leading law firm with offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan, New York City, and Washington, D.C., 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 regional, national, and multi-national levels 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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