Profile

  • Listed in:
    • Chambers USA 2025, Labor & Employment – Upstate New York
    • The Best Lawyers in America®, Employment Law - Management; Labor Law - Management, 1983-2026 (listed for more than 40 years)
      • 2025 Best Lawyers' Buffalo Employment Law - Management Lawyer of the Year
      • 2014 Best Lawyers’ Buffalo Labor Law – Management Lawyer of the Year
    • New York Super Lawyers®, Employment and Labor, 2025 (listed for more than 10 years)
    • Chambers USA 2024, Labor & Employment – Upstate New York
    • Who's Who in America
    • Who's Who in American Law
    • Who's Who in the World, Labor & Employment Section
  • Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
  • American Bar Association, Labor Law Section; former Co-Chair of the Service Contract Act Subcommittee of the Labor Standards Committee
  • New York State Bar Association, Labor Law Section, Government Affairs Committee of the Labor Law Section
  • Erie County Bar Association, Labor Law Committee
  • New York State Management Attorneys Conference, Former Chair
  • Editorial Board and Business Manager, Cornell Law Review
  • Recipient, Charles Evans Hughes Scholarship

  • Life Member, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society; Former Secretary
  • Former Chair, Personnel Committee, Temple Beth Zion

  • Successfully assisted companies of other nations to locate in the United States.
  • Prevailed in an action in the State’s highest court that created an important interpretation of a Federal Law pertaining to certain public employers.
  • Successfully negotiated for employers Collective Bargaining Agreements that have increased efficiency and productivity by significantly altering the prevailing working conditions that then prevailed in the industry.