Federal Sector Arbitration Techniques

Steven M. Bierig Related Seminars and Products

Attorney-Arbitrator-Mediator

Steven M. Bierig is engaged in the full-time practice of arbitration and mediation specializing in labor and employment disputes on a national basis. He has received both Ad Hoc appointments as well as being a member of numerous arbitration panels. Those panels have included the USPS and its constituent Unions, the City of Chicago and its constituent Unions, the Chicago Board of Education and Chicago Teachers Union, the State of Illinois and AFSCME, the National Elevator Bargaining Association, the NTEU and IRS, the FAA and NATCA, the AFA, IBT, ALPA and United Airlines. Mr. Bierig has served as a contract mediator for the EEOC and as the mediator of medical disputes between the City of Chicago and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7. Mr. Bierig has served as the Fact-Finder for the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union. Mr. Bierig is a referee for the National Mediation Board and is affiliated with FMCS, AAA and the Illinois Department of Labor. He serves on the roster of arbitrators for the Illinois Labor and Educational Relations Board. He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Mr. Bierig has served as an Adjunct Professor at IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law and the UIC School of Law. He currently serves as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He has written numerous articles on labor and employment issues and lectures frequently on the topic.

Mr. Bierig received his J.D. with high honors from IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law. Prior to becoming a full time neutral, Mr. Bierig was engaged in the practice of labor law on the management side as a Senior Attorney Supervisor at the City of Chicago Law Department and was an attorney in the Labor and Employment Department at the Chicago Office of Katten Muchin & Zavis.

Mike J. McAuley Related Seminars and Products

National Counsel

National Treasury Employees Union

Michael J. McAuley is National Counsel for the National Treasury Employees Union, a labor union representing over 150,000 federal employees in 33 agencies. He is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has served as Union Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law, Committee on Federal Service Labor Management Relations. He has been an Adjunct Professor at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, and is a frequent lecturer and speaker on federal sector legal and labor relations matters. He works exclusively on federal sector labor/management related matters, has negotiated several contracts and handled numerous cases at arbitration and before the FLRA, FSIP, MSPB, EEOC and in the federal courts as well as working and managing organizing campaigns. Mr. McAuley is a member of the bar in the District of Columbia, New York and Illinois as well as various Federal District and Circuit Courts of Appeals and is a graduate of Georgetown University and Union University, Albany Law School.

Daniel C Mullenix Related Seminars and Products

Area Counsel

U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Office of Chief Counsel

Mr. Mullenix is an Area Counsel with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Office of Chief Counsel.  He supervises and directs a staff of attorneys who provide legal advice and litigate cases concerning federal sector personnel and labor-management issues before the Merit Systems Protection Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before third parties in arbitration.  Mr. Mullenix has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he taught an advanced legal writing course focused on labor and employment law.  He received his B.A. in Classics, cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis, and graduated with honors from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2009.