The Section's committees deal with emerging legal issues and are a major force behind many developments in labor and employment law. Each committee offers members the opportunity to meet and work with colleagues experienced in the committee's area of concentration and, when appropriate, with government policy makers and regulators. Committees meet in conjunction with the ABA Annual Meeting and several committees hold independent midwinter meetings each year.

Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee

Wage and hour class actions-the hottest lawsuits in the country over the last few years--are within the jurisdiction of this Committee and will be among the topics covered at the Committee's midwinter meeting taking place February 17-19 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A featured speaker this year is Thomas Goldstein, the head of Akin Gump's Supreme Court practice. Mr. Goldstein has argued 21 times before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the recent wage and hour case Alvarez v. IBP, Inc. Steven Mandel, Associate Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor, will review the first year of the Obama Administration at DOL and lay out Secretary Solis' agenda for the next three years. This year's meeting promises to be especially interesting: in addition to the annual case law updates, the subcommittee reports on the various statutes within the Committee's jurisdiction will take a more thematic, analytical approach such as a session on Hot Topics under the FLSA moderated by the editor of the Committee's soon-to-be updated FLSA treatise and a discussion of the impact of the financial crisis on government contracting, WARN, and the retaliation statutes. View the meeting agenda here.

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Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee
2010 Midwinter Meeting

Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza Hotel & Casino
San Juan, Puerto Rico
February 17-19, 2010

Practice and Procedure under the NLRA Committee

The Committee on Practice and Procedure under the National Labor Relations Act is a group of labor and management attorneys who have active practices before the NLRB both in Washington, D.C. and with the regional offices throughout the United States. The Committee meets to discuss issues of common concern, to make substantive suggestions on a consensus basis to the Agency, and, perhaps most importantly, to interact with the highest-ranking officials of the NLRB - the Board Members, General Counsel and Executive Secretary - to gain insights from them and to offer perspectives to them on current topics in the field of labor-management relations.

With the advent of a new Administration, the prospect of new appointments to the Board and to the position of General Counsel, and the real possibility - for the first time in a generation - of labor law reform, this is a perfect time to become a member of the Committee and to attend our midwinter meeting in Fajardo, Puerto Rico from March 3 - 6, 2010. Our agenda will include lengthy sessions with both the Board Members and Executive Secretary, and also with the General Counsel and his top staffers. We will also have a timely presentation on interest arbitration from the new director of the FMCS, a discussion with NYU Law Professor Samuel Estreicher about ideas for non-statutory reform at the NLRB, a presentation from the new NLRB Office of Public Affairs, a presentation and discussion of electronic voting, and a panel discussion of practices in the Regions with several experienced NLRB regional directors. Ample time is also built in for dinners, cocktail receptions, and other opportunities to interact informally with Board personnel and fellow practitioners. We invite labor lawyers of all stripes - new and experienced, union and management - to join us for this exciting meeting.

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Committee on Practice & Procedure Under the NLRA
2010 Midwinter Meeting

El Conquistador Resort
Fajardo, Puerto Rico
March 3-6, 2010