Issue: February 2019

Labor & Employment

Advice for Successfully Resolving Pre-Litigation Disputes

By: John C. Roach

Although I first served as a mediator seventeen years ago when I mediated the resolution of Toyota Motor Mfg., Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams, 534 U.S. 184 (2002) after remand from the United States Supreme Court, I have recently begun to devote more time and attention to serving as a mediator. In truth, this recent emphasis is a product of my dissatisfaction and frustration with many aspects of litigation.

Labor & Employment

Trial Advocacy Competition Final Conducted

The National Final of the Section’s 15th Annual Labor and Employment Law Student Trial Advocacy Competition was conducted at the U.S. Courthouse for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans over the weekend of January 26-27.

Labor & Employment

ABA Member Spotlight: John Bagyi

I have been a management-side labor and employment attorney with Bond, Schoeneck & King in Albany, New York, since graduating from Albany Law School in 1996. While I went to law school planning to be a corporate lawyer, all that changed after serving as a summer law clerk at Bond.