David P Radelet

Career

David has practiced law for more than three decades, representing private-sector employers across the country in a wide variety of labor and employment matters. His clients have included manufacturing; transportation; retail industry leaders; multi-employer associations; and a variety of firms in the service sector.

Radelet has represented employers in scores of collective bargaining negotiations; arbitrations; union organizing and decertification situations around the U.S.; and related NLRB and court proceedings. He has also handled a diverse assortment of employment litigation before various state and federal courts and government agencies.

Additionally, Radelet provides general employment counseling and compliance advice on a wide variety of labor and employment matters, such as drafting and enforcing employment contracts and restrictive covenants; strategizing asset transfers; structuring indirect service relationships; developing employee handbooks and policy manuals; and many other issues impacted by the increasingly complex and daunting array of federal and state employment statutes.

Radelet has been particularly active in advising employers as they define the labor and employment elements of their core business strategies. He assists mature union-represented employers in developing and implementing next-generation business strategies for new product development; complexity reduction; facility shutdown or relocation; and other essential strategic initiatives.

Among Radelet's vast strategic planning and litigation experience, he co-represented a Fortune 100 company in a massive declaratory class action in federal court, relating to a $1 billion reduction in retiree health benefits affecting nearly 100,000 retirees and dependents in 49 states.

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