Clark Hill Attorney Joseph B. Urban to Participate in Michigan Association of School Board’s “Getting the Relationship Right” Panel – March 15

LANSING, MICH. –

Clark Hill attorney Joe Urban will participate in a panel of prominent management and labor negotiators on “Getting the Relationship Right.” The panel, hosted by the Michigan Association of School Boards, will examine the dynamic that evolves during negotiations and explore the ingredients in relationships among negotiators, even in difficult bargaining, that foster contracts which can be accepted by both sides as fair outcomes.

Urban is a member in Clark Hill’s Birmingham office, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of municipal finance, education law, and real estate law.

Urban routinely represents school employers in the areas of collective bargaining, grievances and arbitration, unfair labor practices, wrongful discharge and the day-to-day matters arising in personnel administration. With respect to education law, Urban regularly counsels school districts and public school academies in the operational issues involved in administering educational organizations, including compliance with the Revised School Code, the Open Meetings Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and other laws governing public bodies.