History of Illinois Public Sector Law
- Categories:
- Labor Law | Labor Relations
- Speakers:
- Ted Clark | Joel A. D’Alba | Martin H. Malin
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 01 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 01, 2023
- Product Type:
- On Demand
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
The panel will discuss major developments in the 40-year history of the Illinois public employee collective bargaining statutes.
- Ted Clark, Clark Baird Smith LLP
- Joel D'Alba, Shareolder, Asher Gittler & D'Alba Ltd.
- Marty Malin, Professor Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Speaker
Ted Clark Related Seminars and Products
Founding Partner
Clark Baird Smith LLP
TED CLARK is a founding partner of the law firm of Clark Baird Smith LLP. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree from Syracuse University and received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. With over 50 years experience, Ted represents both public and private sector management clients with respect to a wide variety of collective bargaining and employment law matters, including mediation and interest arbitration.
Ted is a co-author with Judge Harry Edwards and Professor Charles Craver of Labor Relations Law in the Public Sector: Cases and Materials (Bobbs-Merrill 1974), the first law school textbook in the area of public sector labor relations. The fourth edition was published in 1992. For many years he taught the public sector labor law course at Northwestern University Law School. Ted has also written numerous articles and publications that have been published by such journals as the UCLA Law Review, the Journal of Law and Education, the Wisconsin Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Oregon Law Review, and the Illinois Bar Journal. For the past thirty, he has been listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America. In 2005 Ted was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Bar Association’s State and Local Government Committee. In 2010 Ted was the first recipient of the American Bar Association’s Arvid Anderson Public Sector Labor and Employment Law Lawyer of the Year Award.
Joel A. D’Alba Related Seminars and Products
Shareholder
Asher Gittler & D'Alba Ltd.
Joel D'.Alba is one of the senior managing shareholders at Asher, Gittler & D’Alba,
Ltd. and has been in practice since 1971. He has been with the firm for over 50 years and he has devoted his entire professional life to representing working people, both through union representation and as individual clients. Joel is also frequently consulted for his opinions concerning internal and administrative union affairs. While he has represented clients from just about every segment of the private sector, much of his work has centered on the representation of union clients in the public sector, where Joel serves as counsel for firefighter and police unions. He has considerable experience in handling contract negotiations, grievance arbitrations and interest arbitrations. Further, he is extremely well-versed in all aspects of state labor law. In fact, he played an instrumental role in drafting the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, which is one of two state laws granting collective bargaining rights and labor protection to state and municipal employees throughout Illinois.
He is active in two prominent labor law organizations: (1) the American
Bar Association's Section of Labor and Employment Law, and (2) the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Between August 2013 and August 2014, Joel served as the Chair of the ABA's Section of Labor and Employment Law.
He has been listed with Best Lawyers in America, and has been selected as a Super Lawyer from 2005 through 2022.
In November Joel will receive the American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law 2023 Arvid Anderson Public Sector Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year Award. This award recognizes an attorney whose career substantially contributed to the development of public sector labor law.
Martin H. Malin Related Seminars and Products
Chairman
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Martin H. Malin is Professor Emeritus at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, where he taught for 41 years, founded the Institute for Law and the Workplace, and served as Director of the Institute for 25 years. He joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1980 after serving as law clerk to United States District Judge Robert E. DeMascio in Detroit and on the faculty of The Ohio State University. A renown scholar on the law governing the workplace, he has published more than 80 articles and seven books on labor law. Professor Malin has served as National Chair of the Labor Relations and Employment Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, Secretary of the ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law, member of the Executive Committee of the Labor Law Group, member of the Board of Governors and Vice President of the National Academy of Arbitrators, and member of the Board of Governors of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. In October 2009, President Obama appointed Professor Malin as a member of the Federal Service Impasses Panel. President Obama reappointed Professor Malin in 2014 and Malin served until May 2017. In 2016, the ABA presented Professor Malin with the Arvid Anderson Award for lifetime contributions to public sector labor law. He has a B.A. from Michigan State University and a J.D. from George Washington University.