Labor and Employment Law: Current Developments

Kenneth A. Sprang is an accomplished labor and employment law specialist and corporate and transactional lawyer with experience in all aspects of labor and employment law gained as in-house counsel, private attorney, government counsel (NLRB), and law professor. He began his career at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and subsequently served as in house counsel to a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. and Cyclops Corporation. He has started legal departments for several growing companies, most recently serving as Senior Vice-President, General Counsel, and Secretary to Onit Digital, Inc.

Mr. Sprang advises employers on a wide variety of labor and employment law matters, including labor relations and collective bargaining; issues under the National Labor Relations Act; employee benefits; and discipline and discharge and other human resources policies. His wide-ranging experience includes labor relations and collective bargaining as well as federal, state, and local employment regulation, e.g., Title VII, FMLA; employee benefits; and common law employment issues.

In addition, he is a skilled corporate generalist with experience in corporate governance; reviewing, drafting and negotiating myriad agreements; M&A; environmental law; real estate transactions; regulatory compliance; and risk management.

He has achieved notable success in reducing risk and employer expense by building effective working relationships with unions; implementing internal training and compliance procedures; and carefully drafting policies; effectively representing employers in adversarial proceedings. He also has an excellent track record of seizinig initiative to reduce client costs.

Core Competencies include Employment Discrimination ▪ FLSA, FMLA, WARN, etc. ▪ Training & Corporate Compliance ▪ NLRA and Labor Relations ▪ Collective Bargaining ▪ Labor Arbitration ▪ Employee Benefits ▪ General Corporate ▪ Business Transactions ▪ Contracts

Mr. Sprang is the author or co-author of several books and articles on labor and employment law. He has taught labor and employment law as a full time professor, and continues as an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University Columbus School of Law, where he teaches a Labor Seminar.