Professional Profile
Mr. Irving focuses his practice on labor and employment litigation and counseling on mergers, acquisitions and consolidations, downsizing, plant relocations, union representation elections, labor negotiations, strikes and lockouts, NLRB unfair labor practices, arbitration, wage and hour, wrongful discharge and equal employment. Mr. Irving was selected as a global leader in the field of employment & labor law in The International Who's Who of Labor and Employment Lawyers by Law Business Research.
Mr. Irving has written several articles relating to his field of practice. Click to view:
Operational Changes: The First National Maintenance/Fibreboard Dual
Representation Rights for Non-Union Employees
Premature Recognition: Isn't There a Better Way?Memberships & Affiliations
Governor, College of Labor and Employment LawyersMember, Labor and Employers Advisory Counsel, National Association of Manufacturers
Other Distinctions
Listed in Best Lawyers in America and Guide to the World's Leading Labour and Employment LawyersPrior Experience
Appellate Division and Legal Assistant to Board Member, National Labor Relations Board, 1965-1969.
Special Assistant to the Solicitor of Labor, 1969-1970.
Executive Assistant to Under Secretary of Labor, 1970-1971.
National Labor Relations Board Associate General Counsel, 1971-1972, Deputy General Counsel 1972-1975 and General Counsel, 1975-1979.
Courts
United States Courts of Appeals for the D.C., 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th Circuits

John S. Irving