Michael Best: Announces date for 23rd annual Labor and Employment Relations Law Seminar

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Susan E. Steberl

Client Development Manager

Direct Dial: 414.270.2703

E-Mail: sesteberl@michaelbest.com

(January 13, 2011) Milwaukee, WI – The law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP has announced that their Annual Labor and Employment Relations Law Seminar will be held on Thursday, May 12, 2011, at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee. Now in its 23rd year, this seminar has grown to become one of the largest of its kind in the area, drawing over 300 attendees from local and regional companies.

In addition to providing updates on legal matters regarding benefits, FMLA, employee hiring, firing and discipline, and wage and hour matters, just to name a few, this year the attorneys at Michael Best will include a workshop track that focuses on the management-side employment challenges within the manufacturing, technology, energy, financial, and health care industries.

“Many of our clients in these industries face unique challenges within their workforce,” said Jose Olivieri, Chair of Michael Best’s Labor and Employment relations Practice Group. “We intend to address some of the most acute challenges and provide the attendees with best practices that can be implemented as they plan for the future.”

More information will be available on this seminar in the coming months. Please visit michaelbest.com for updates.

Michael Best’s Labor and Employment Relations Practice Group

Michael Best’s Labor and Employment Relations Practice Group is one of the largest in the Midwest. The attorneys are recognized by their clients and peers as among the best and most respected management-side labor, employment and employee benefits attorneys in the country. According to the 2010 issue of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Michael Best’s Labor and Employment Relations Practice Group “retains its preeminent position in the market thanks to the supreme quality of the dedicated attorneys and litigators that comprise the team” which has “great breadth of experience” and the attorneys are “leaders in their specialties.” Additionally, Michael Best was ranked number one exclusively in terms of having the most labor and employment law attorneys in the state of Wisconsin listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and a survey conducted by U.S. News and World Report (October 2010) identifies Michael Best as a nationally-ranked law firm focusing on management-side labor and employment law.

About Michael Best

Founded in 1848, Michael Best has earned its reputation as a leading Midwestern law firm. The firm has more than 220 attorneys in Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha and Manitowoc, Wisconsin; and Chicago, Illinois. The firm provides a full range of legal services to clients on a local, regional, national and global basis in areas including: labor & employment, general corporate, health care, land & resources (environmental and real estate), litigation, tax, and wealth planning services.