John Gaal
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Mr. Gaal practices Labor and Employment Law, with an emphasis on Higher Education. He has represented Colleges and Universities in union organizing matters (including Yeshiva issues), unfair labor practice proceedings under the National Labor Relations Act, collective bargaining, arbitration proceedings, and employment and student discrimination matters before State and Federal courts and agencies (including the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights and the Department of Labor's Office for Federal Contract Compliance Programs). His experience includes sexual and other harassment issues and proceedings (including student/student and faculty/student matters), affirmative action issues, Title IX gender equity matters, tenure and promotion claims, student and staff accommodation issues under the ADA and Section 504, early retirement/downsizing and program discontinuation issues, faculty governance matters and student disciplinary proceedings.
Mr. Gaal is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), has spoken at NACUA and CUPA (College and University Personnel Administrators) Annual Conferences, and is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of College and University Law. Among his most recent publications relating to Higher Education are Gender Based Pay Disparities in Intercollegiate Coaching: The Legal Issues, 28 Journal of College and University Law 519 (2003) and Disability Discrimination in Higher Education, 28 Journal of College and University Law 435 (2003). Among the institutions Mr. Gaal represents are St. Lawrence University, Syracuse University, Clarkson University, Colgate University, Hamilton College and Wells College.
- Health Care
- Labor Law and Employment Law
- Municipalities
- Real Estate Development and Construction
Honors and Affiliations
Seventh Circuit and Note Editor, Notre Dame Law Review
American Bar Association
Labor and Employment Law Section
New York State Bar Association
Labor and Employment Law Section (Executive Committee; Co-Chair Committee on Ethics)
Special Committee on AIDS and the Law (1989-92)
Special Committee on Mandatory Pro Bono Service (1989)
House of Delegates (1987-89, 1990-91)
Chair, Young Lawyers Section (1989-90)
Onondaga County Bar Association
Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Law Lawyers
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Editorial Board, Journal of College and University Law
NACUA (National Association of College and University Attorneys)
Listed in:
The Best Lawyers in America® 2011, Education Law; Labor and Employment Law
New York Super Lawyers 2010®, Employment & Labor
Who's Who In America
Who's Who In American Law
Other Activities
Board of Directors, Transitional Living Services, Inc. (2001-present)
Board of Directors, Legal Services of Central New York 1983-1989, 1993-1999)
Prior service as Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University College of Law and Syracuse University School of Management
Representative Publications
Gaal and Jones, "Disability Discrimination in Higher Education", 28 Journal of College and University Law 435
Gaal, Glazier, Evans, "Gender Based Pay Disparities in Intercollegiate Coaching: The Legal Issues", 28 Journal of College and University Law 519
Gaal, "The Disclosure of Financial Information: (Competitiveness and the Current Requirements of the Duty to Bargain in Good Faith", 38 Labor Law Journal 526
Gaal, "The NLRB's Misuse of Witnesses" Statements in Election Objection Proceedings", 33 Labor Law Journal 17
Gaal, "Pre-Hire Agreements and Their Current Legal Status", 32 Syracuse Law Review 581 Ferguson and Gaal, Codetermination: A Fact or a Future in America, 10 Employee Relations Law Journal 176
Gaal and DiLorenzo, "The Legality and Requirements of HEW's Proposed 'Policy Interpretation' of Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics", 6 Journal of College and University Law 161
Representative Presentations
CUPA-HR Eastern Region Annual Conference 2001 (Montreal), 2002 (Annapolis), 2003 (Philadelphia), 2004 (Newport), 2005 (Boston); CUPA National Annual Conference 2006 (Washington, D.C.)
New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section -- Frequent Speaker at Labor and Employment Law Section's Annual and Fall Meetings (1993 to present)
Georgetown Employment Law Litigation Institute, Washington, DC (2001)
National Transportation Research Board (National Academy of the Sciences) Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C. and Summer Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2000)
Annual NACUA (National Association of College and University Attorneys) 1998 (Denver), 2006 (Chicago)
St. John's University Law School Employment Law Litigation Institute Speaker