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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert A. Boonin was a featured speaker during the June 22, 2007 Spring Conference for the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) in New York. Mr. Boonin's presentation addressed the increase in litigation regarding overtime pay, as well as trends in the Labor Department's enforcement efforts. He offered insight into these cases and how they are commonly litigated. Mr. Boonin also was presented with a Distinguished Speaker Award. Mr. Boonin is a Charter Fellow of the LCA.
Mr. Boonin practices in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office. His practice is largely concentrated in the areas of labor, employment discrimination, wage and hour matters, public contract law and education law. He has represented public and private sector clients across the country in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage and hour class and other actions, tenure proceedings and other employment-related lawsuits, as well as in arbitrations, labor negotiations, fact-findings, 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, including the Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section, and he is also a Past-President and Board member of the Michigan Council of School Attorneys. He is currently a Member the Council which governs the Michigan Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section, and he is a former Chair of the Washtenaw County Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section. He also co-chairs the Washtenaw County Bar Association's Trial Practice Section.
Mr. Boonin frequently publishes articles and presents at conferences on various topics involving labor and employment law matters, including discrimination and wage and hour law. Among his publications and presentations 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 Employment and Labor Relations Law (MPELRA 1994); "Damages Recoverable in the Employment Case," Michigan Wrongful Discharge and Employment Law (ICLE 1994); "Fair Labor Standards Act Update," (ICLE 2006). He is an editor of the upcoming 2007 edition of the treatise Employment Discrimination (BNA 2007), and is a contributor to the 2007 supplement of the treatise The Fair Labor Standards Act (BNA 2007).
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.A. 1976). He also earned a Masters Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University (M.L.I.R. 1980).
About The Litigation Counsel of America
The Litigation Counsel of America is an honorary trial lawyer society that represents less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Membership is by invitation only. 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.
About Butzel Long
Butzel Long was established in 1854 and is headquartered in Detroit. Butzel Long is one of Michigan's oldest and largest law firms, with 225 attorneys and 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. 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 161 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com.
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