Enrichment Opportunities

The Co-Directors of the LEL Concentration strongly recommend that students interested in this area of practice become involved in organizations and activities that enhance their professional development, expose them to different aspects of LEL work, and build networks for career advancement.

Suffolk University Law School LEL Activities

Suffolk Employment and Labor Law Society

Robert F. Fuchs Labor Law Conference at SULS (Professor Greenbaum, Chair)

2012 – Date and Topic TBD

2011 – Employee Rights in the Obama Era

2010 - New Directions and New Faces at the NLRB and the DOL

2009 – Employment Law: Looking Back, Looking Forward

2008 - National Labor Relations Board/U.S. Department of Labor Annual Conference

2007 - National Labor Relations Board/U.S. Department of Labor Annual Conference

2006 - National Labor Relations Board/U.S. Department of Labor Annual Conference

2005 - National Labor Relations Board/U.S. Department of Labor Annual Conference

2004 - Annual NLRB/DOL Joint Law Conference

Other Prior LEL Programs

2003 - Employment Litigation: Thinking Outside the Box

2002 – EEOC Mediation Training

2001 - Cutting Edge Courtroom Techniques in Employment Litigation

2000 - New England Conference on Workplace Bullying

New Workplace Institute (Professor Yamada, Director)

Minding the Workplace blog

Outside LEL Writing Competitions

The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law – Annual Student Writing Competition – 2011-2012

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law – (Co-sponsored by Jackson Lewis LLP and the Institute for Law and the Workplace at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law)

Workers’ Compensation Law Student Writing Competition

American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Employee Benefits Writing Competition

LEL-Related Organizations

Government Agencies:

National Labor Relations Board

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

United States Department of Labor

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

Neutral Organizations:

ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law

BBA Section of Labor and Employment Law

MBA Section of Labor and Employment

American Arbitration Association

National Academy of Arbitrators

College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

Other

AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

National Employment Lawyers Association

Labor and Employment Relations Association - (contact Prof. Yamada with questions)

Jobs with Justice - (contact Prof. Yamada with questions)

Society for Human Resource Management

International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence - (contact Prof. Yamada with questions)

Blogs

Workplace Prof Blog