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Jim Baird
Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Mr. Baird’s labor and employment practice is particularly focused on the representation of public and private sector clients in union representation, collective bargaining and unfair labor practice matters. He has successfully negotiated over 200 collective bargaining agreements on behalf of public, private and federal employers, throughout the country. Mr. Baird is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a member of the American Bar Association’s Board of Governors.
Mr. Baird served as a Legal Assistant-Attorney Advisor to Sam Zagoria, Member, and later to Frank W. McCulloch, Chairman, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C. from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1972, he was Assistant Director and Counsel to the Washington, D.C. based Labor-Management Relations Service of the National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and National Association of Counties.
In August of 2004, Mr. Baird was elected to the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association, where he serves as one of the 36 Governors of the 405,000 member attorney Association. Prior to his election to the Board of Governors, Mr. Baird served as the Section of State & Local Government Law’s Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates, and has held office in that Section since 1994.
Mr. Baird has also served as Management Chairman of the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section's Committee on State and Local Government Bargaining (1976-79) and was Management Chairman of that Section's Committee on State Labor Law (1975-76).
Mr. Baird serves as Labor Relations Counsel to the National Public Employer Labor Relations Association and the Illinois Public Employer Labor Relations Association. Additionally, he has served as Chairman of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Committee (1978-80) and is a former member of the National Dispute Panel of the American Arbitration Association.
Mr. Baird has authored or co-authored the following books: Maintaining Public Services: The NPELRA Strike Planning Manual (NPELRA 1978); Practical Labor Relations for Public Employers (Colorado Municipal League 1979); Smarter Bargaining: A Guide to Contract Language for Today's Public Negtiator (IPELRA 1981, 1988); Surviving Police/Fire Collective Bargaining and Interest Arbitration in Illinois (1985); Public Employee Privacy: A Legal and Practical Guide to Issues Affecting the Workplace (ABA 1995); Freedom of Speech in the Public Workplace (ABA 1998); and Sexual Harassment in the Public Workplace (ABA 2001).
Mr. Baird has spoken extensively on labor and employment relations issues to colleges, universities and such professional associations as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the International Personnel Management Association, the National Academy of Arbitrators, and the National Public Employer Labor Relations Association, as well as to numerous state PELRAs, the National Employment Law Institute, Police Chief and Fire Chief’s Associations, and the California and Illinois Municipal League Attorneys Conferences, among others.
Education
J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School (1968)
Master of Laws-Labor Law, George Washington University School of Law, with highest honors (1970)
B.S., Michigan State University (1965)
Admissions
Illinois
Wisconsin