Representative Experience
- Chief labor negotiator for labor agreements covering 3,500 represented employees in four bargaining units
- Litigate labor arbitration cases
- Handle Title VII, ADEA, NLRB, FMLA and related state charges
- Develop and review human resource policies and procedures
- Represent employers before the Workers' Compensation Office of Judges, Board of Review and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- Represent coal companies in the defense of federal black lung claims
Employment History
- Weirton Steel Corporation, Senior Director, Industrial Relations and Personnel, 2001 - 2004
- Weirton Steel Corporation, Senior Director, Industrial Relations, 1998 - 2001
- Weirton Steel Corporation, Corporate Attorney, 1990 - 1998
- Volk, Frankovitch, Anetakis, Recht, Robertson & Hellerstedt, Associate and Partner, 1985 - 1990
- Bogarad and Robertson, Associate, 1980 - 1985
Education
- Allegheny College, B.A., 1976
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 1980
Admissions
- West Virginia State Bar
- West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
- United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth and Sixth Circuits
Other
- Weirton United Way, Appropriations Committee