Professional Experience:

2004 – 2007: Attorney and Member, McCarthy Smith Law Group, PLC.

2007 – present: of counsel


Practice is exclusively in employment and labor relations law, primarily representing management, in:

  • General employment counseling
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Arbitrations
  • Union avoidance advice and campaigns
  • Employment-related litigation
  • Civil rights litigation
  • NLRB and MERC proceedings
  • EEOC and MDCR proceedings
  • Employee handbooks & personnel policies
  • Defense of wage & hour claims
  • Training of managers and supervisors
and Aviation law and litigation including:
  • FAA regulatory practice
  • Pilot enforcement actions
  • Products and accident litigation

1996-2004 Lewis Reed Allen (Partner).

1976-1996 Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey (Partner, management committee 1991-1994).

1973-1976 Seyfarth Shaw, Chicago and California

Law School :

University of Michigan , J.D., 1973

Undergraduate:

Kalamazoo College , B.A., 1970

Memberships:

American Bar Association; Michigan Bar Association Aviation Section (Chair, 1997-98); ABA Labor and Employment Law Committee on Alternate Dispute Resolution; ABA Litigation Section; Industrial Relations Research Association; Kalamazoo Human Resources Management Association; Society for Human Resource Management; Lawyer Pilot Bar Association; Flying Physicians Association (honorary member).

Community Activities:

Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum

  • Board Member 1997-present
  • Executive Committee 2003-present

Habitat for Humanity

  • Board Member 1996-2002
  • Labor Counsel 1996-present

Kalamazoo College Alumni Association

  • Executive Board
  • Chair

Kalamazoo College Hornet Club

  • Executive Board Chair 1988-1990

High on Kalamazoo Air Show

  • Executive Board 1987-1995
  • President 1990-1993

Admitted to Practice:

Michigan State Courts (1974); Illinois State Courts (1974); California State Courts (1975); U.S. District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan, Northern District of Illinois, and Southern District of California; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and D.C. Circuit; National Labor Relations Board.