| Biography:
Peter Conrad is a 1977 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo
School of Law. He began his career at the National Labor Relations Board, where
he worked in the Board's New York City Regional Office for three years as a
trial attorney and hearing officer.
Peter joined Proskauer's Labor and Employment Law Department in 1980 and became
a partner in 1986. He has represented employers in numerous industries (including
health care, higher education, finance, transportation, pharmaceutical, petrochemical,
telecommunications, legal services, publishing, retail, broadcasting, entertainment,
hotel and professional sports) in the full range of unfair labor practice and
election proceedings before the NLRB. In the nearly 30 years that Peter has
handled matters at the NLRB, he has confronted virtually every issue that a
labor lawyer specializing in this area of practice could expect to see, from
the straightforward discharge for union activity, to the most complex secondary
boycott, successorship and refusal-to-bargain situations.
The remainder of his time is devoted to the related areas of union avoidance
and corporate campaigns (defending employers against organizational activity
in its many forms), as well as arbitration, negotiation, and litigation under
collective bargaining agreements. Although primarily engaged in a more traditional
labor relations practice, Peter also represents companies in employment discrimination
cases (before state and federal administrative agencies and in the courts),
workers' compensation and unemployment insurance proceedings, and general client
counseling in all areas of labor relations and employment law.
The clients which Peter represents on a regular basis include T-Mobile USA,
United Parcel Service, The Museum of Modern Art, Castle Oil Corporation, Otis
Elevator Company, The Elevator Manufacturers' Association of New York, and the
New York Public Library, to name a few.
As a member of the Firm's interdepartmental Sports Law Group, Peter also has
done work over the years for the National Basketball Association, the National
Hockey League, Major League Baseball and the Major Indoor Soccer League, primarily
in matters pending at the NLRB, including the 1995 attempted decertification
of the National Basketball Players' Association and the much more recent season-long
lockout by the NHL.
Peter has been a member of the faculty of the Practising Law Institute since
1987, speaking on the labor and employment law aspects of "Acquiring or
Selling the Privately Held Company." He is also a member of the New York
State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, and Management Co-Chair
of the Section's Committee on Labor Relations Law and Procedure. In addition,
Peter has served as a member of the Committee on Labor and Employment Law of
the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
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