REPRESENTATIVE DECISIONS

City of Bartow, FL and West Central Florida Police Benevolent Ass'n, 121 LA Cases (BNA) 798 (June 2005)
Sweet Sue Kitchens/Sara Lee Foods Athens Facility and RWDSU, 120 LA Cases (BNA) 54 (July 2004)
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA and Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Ass'n, IFPTE Local 29, FMCS Case No. 04-51595 (August 2004)
L.B. Foster and Shopmen's Local 527, FMCS Case No. 03-08699 (August 2003)
Phoenix Field Office, BLM, ARB No. 01-010, 2001 WL 767573 (June 2001)
U.S. Postal Service ANET and WNET Contracts, ARB No. 98-131, 2000 WL 1100166 (Aug. 2000)
Hobby v. Georgia Power Co., ARB Nos. 98-166/169, 2001 WL 168898 (Feb. 2001), aff'd
Georgia Power Co. v. U.S. Dep't of Labor, No. 01-10916 (11th Cir. 2002).

EDUCATION

National Judicial College (Mediation for Judges, 2002; Essential Skills for Appellate Judges,1999)

ARBITRATOR ROSTERS

American Arbitration Association
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
D.C. Public Employee Relations Board
Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board
New Jersey State Board of Mediation
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

ARBITRATOR PANELS

U.S. Postal Service/NALC
U.S. Postal Service/APWU
U.S. Dep't of Housing and Urban Development/AFGE Council 222
Plan for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes in the Construction Industry
National Maintenance Agreements Policy Committee

Areas of Practice

• 100% Alternative Dispute Resolution

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1987
• Maryland, 1987
• District of Columbia, 1988
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit

Education

• George Washington University National Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 1987
  J.D.
  
  
• University of Maryland, 1977
  B.S.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Major: Business Management
  
  
• Deep Springs College, California
  
  

Published Works

• "Midwinter Meeting Report, Subcommittee on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002", (Editor/Contributor), ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, Committee on Federal Labor Standards Legislation, February, 2007
• Wage and Hour Law: A State by State Survey, BNA Books, (Chapter Author), January, 2005
• "Revisiting Davis-Bacon", Professional Roofing Magazine, October, 2004
• "Complying with the Davis-Bacon Act", (Lead Author with Daniel Abrahams, Esq., and Shlomo Katz, Esq.), Thompson Briefing Papers 2d Series, 2003

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Moderator, "Supreme Court and Other Developments Affecting Litigation of Retaliation and Whistleblower Claims", ABA Teleconference, 2007
• Panelist, "The Law of ADR Year-in-Review", ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring, 2007
• Panelist, "How to Prepare for Employment Dispute Mediation", DC Bar, Washington, D.C., 2007
• Moderator/Panelist, "Anatomy of a Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Complaint", ABA, Convention, Honolulu, HI, 2006
• Presenter, "ALJ Subpoena Power in Whistleblower Proceedings", Prettyman-Leventhal American Inn of Court, Washington, D.C., 2005
• Organizer/Moderator, "Litigating Whistleblower Complaints before the U.S. Department of Labor", District of Columbia Bar Presentation, 2004
• Organizer/Panelist, "Whistleblowers", NASA Inspector General All-Hands Staff Conference, New Orleans, LA,, 2004
• Lecturer, "Collective Bargaining and Arbitration: An Arbitrator's Perspective", Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, 2003
• Panelist, "What to Do When the Whistle Blows or How to Blow It: Whistleblower Protection Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act", ABA Convention, San Francisco, CA, 2003

Professional Associations and Memberships

• National Academy of Arbitrators
  
  
• American Bar Association
  Vice-Chair, Employment Safety and Labor Committee
  
  
• American Bar Association
  Co-Chair, Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Subcommittee
  
  
• District of Columbia Bar, 2003 - 2006
  Steering Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section
  
  
• Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
  
  
• Society of Federal Labor and Employment Relations Professionals (SFLERP)
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Administrative Review Board, U.S. Department of Labor, Chief Administrative Appeals Judge/Chair, 1998 - 2002
• Paul Greenberg Law Office, Attorney, 1996 - 1998
• Connerton & Ray, Attorney, 1988 - 1996
• Zwerdling, Paul, Leibig, Kahn & Thompson, Attorney, 1987 - 1988

Pro Bono Activities

• D.C. Government, Office of Employee Appeals, 1989 - 1995
• D.C. Government, D.C. Apprenticeship Council, 1980 - 1985