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Brian Clauss Related Seminars and Products

Arbitrator Mediator Attorney

Clauss ADR, Inc.

Brian Clauss is professional neutral Arbitrator and Mediator with a national practice resolving Labor, Employment, and Commercial disputes. Now in his twentieth year as a neutral, he has resolved thousands of disputes in arbitration and mediation.   Brian is a frequent speaker and published author with hundreds of presentations in the US, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, and more than twenty books, articles, and chapters. He serves the community on a number of non-profit boards.

Brian is also an educator.  He cofounded and served as Executive Director of the UIC-Chicago John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic – a nationally

recognized program providing free legal assistance to veterans in VA benefit appeals. In 2019, he served as interim director of the Veterans Clinic at the University of Arizona Rogers School of Law and then remained to co-develop the Dispute Resolution concentration for the Masters in Legal Studies program.  He currently teaches Arbitration and Dispute Resolution courses in the program.

In addition to Brian, Clauss ADR, Inc. is administered by the other attorney in the Clauss house, Andrea Stulgies-Clauss. They are bilingual English - German.

Amy Moor Gaylord, JD Related Seminars and Products

Partner, Co-Chair, Traditional Labor Practice Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

Akerman LLP

With over 25 years of experience, Amy Moor Gaylord focuses her practice on traditional labor matters and employment litigation for both public and private sector employers with an emphasis on National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proceedings, union organizing drives, NLRB-conducted elections, arbitration cases, contract negotiations, and employment discrimination matters. She has experience counseling clients in various industries, including higher education, not-for-profit, public safety (fire/rescue, police, 911 emergency dispatch centers), hospitality, and entertainment, among others.

Amy has served as lead negotiator in hundreds of collective bargaining negotiations in both the public and private sectors. She frequently represents employers in state and federal court, including class action and TRO/preliminary injunction proceedings, in arbitrations, and before administrative agencies. In addition, she counsels clients regarding union avoidance, workplace harassment, and compliance with a variety of employment-related statutes, including Title VII, the NLRA, the ADEA, the ADA, the FMLA, and the FLSA.

Amy previously worked as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in Peoria, Illinois.

Notable Work

Higher Education:

• Representation of a large community college in contentious labor negotiations where the client was able to avoid a strike through creatively resolving a health insurance issue that was at the center of the conflict.
• Representation of a religiously affiliated college against a union that was trying to organize contingent faculty (adjunct and non-tenure track employees). By proving to the NLRB that the college was exempt from unionization as a religious educational institution, the union ultimately withdrew their petition on the day of the representation hearing rather than litigate the issue.

Not-For-Profits Organizations:

• Representation of multiple clients in countering union organizing campaigns, including defending clients against unfair labor practice charges filed during and after the union organizing drives.
• Representation of clients in various discrimination and harassment lawsuits.

Jerry J. Marzullo Related Seminars and Products

Shareholder

Asher Gittler & D'Alba Ltd.

Jerry Marzullo is a shareholder in the firm of Asher, Gittler & D’Alba Ltd. and concentrates his practice in the representation of Labor Unions and Pension Funds.  He has successfully represented clients in both pension and labor matters, including collective bargaining, discipline, arbitrations, pension hearings (representing Pension Boards), administrative review, and declaratory judgment proceedings at Administrative, State, and Federal Levels.  Jerry has considerable experience in both litigation and appellate work with numerous decisions. He also serves as Deputy General Counsel for the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association and the Metropolitan Alliance of Police.  He serves as an Advisory Committee Member for the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Law Conference and on the Board of the Chicago Chapter of the Labor and Employment Relations Association.

Jerry received his Juris Doctorate from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law and his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with a dual concentration in Strategic Management and Managerial and Organizational Behavior.

He has previously taught undergraduate, Master’s Degree, and Law School courses in various labor and employment law topics. Jerry has been a frequent speaker on both labor and pension-related issues for the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association, the Metropolitan Alliance of Police, the Associated Firefighters of Illinois, the Illinois Professional Firefighters Association, the Illinois Government Finance Officers Association, and the Chicago-Kent Illinois Public Sector Labor Relations Conference and the American Bar Association. Jerry has authored legal articles for publication, including, most recently, the Illinois Public Employee Relations Report (A Statement of Facts: The Reality of Public Safety Employee Pension Funds in the State of Illinois; Vol. 37 No. 3; Possible Wisdom and Wit regarding the Arbitration of Discipline; Vol. 39 No. 3). He has also helped train command staff police officers and firefighters at the Northeastern Illinois Public Safety Training Academy (NIPSTA).

Jerry is a City of Berwyn Battalion Chief (IAFF-AFFI Local 506), where he currently has 24 years of creditable service and is former President of the City of Berwyn Firefighter's Pension Fund and former Vice-President of IAFF-AFFI Local 506. He is a Certified Fire and Arson Investigator, Advanced Technician Firefighter, and Chief Fire Officer.

Finally, and most importantly, he is happily married to one of Chicago's finest Police Lieutenants and has two evil pugs that he barely restrains from taking over the world.