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Kenneth Dolin

Kenneth Dolin

Seyfarth Shaw LLP, United States

Work Department

Labor & Employment Department; Labor Management Relations Practice Group

Career

Mr. Dolin is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He represents management in the area of labor and employment law.  He has extensive experience in the area of traditional labor relations law including significant NLRB case handling experience, collective bargaining, arbitrations, strikes and lockouts, and strategizing and advising management on complex labor relations issues.  He also has an extensive employment litigation practice, including discrimination and restrictive covenant litigation. He has counseled numerous Fortune 500  employers in business restructurings such as plant closings, work relocations, and outsourcings.  Mr. Dolin has successfully planned the strategies and negotiated complex labor agreements for numerous clients.  He has successfully defended dozens of union unfair labor practice charges filed against clients during these negotiations and managed the legalities of those clients operating during a strike, including security issues, obtaining state court injunctions for striker misconduct, the client’s use of replacement workers and on occasion, the client’s locking out bargaining unit employees. 

Relatedly, he has helped clients win several dozen union organizing campaigns, representing clients at the NLRB hearing and assisting clients in lawfully but effectively communicating to employees during a union organizing campaign.

Mr. Dolin has investigated numerous sexual harassment complaints involving senior executives, including the presidents of major companies. He has also counseled on dozens of major reductions-in-force, each involving anywhere from 100 to several hundred layoffs without a single meritorious lawsuit resulting.  Mr. Dolin was an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board, Region 29, Brooklyn, New York.

Memberships

ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law (Committee on the Development of the Law under the National Labor Relations Act)

Education

J.D., University of Illinois College of Law (1980) cum laude; L.L.M. in Labor Law, New York University School of Law (1987); M.I.L.R., Cornell University (1981) New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations; B.A., University of Wisconsin (1978) with honors

Leisure

Running, Biking & hiking.