Mark J Stepaniak

Practice Areas

Labor and Employment Litigation

Non-Competition Agreements

Wage and Hour Law

Workplace Safety and Health

Experience

Mark represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including litigation for employers in the federal and state courts involving wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, race and age discrimination, retaliatory discharge, and wage and hour matters. He is experienced in trade secret and non-competition agreement litigation.

Mark has extensive experience negotiating collective bargaining agreements in the broadcast, music, automotive, soft drink beverage, plastics, logistics, distributing, dairy, and paper working industries and for public sector employers, including hospitals, the Cincinnati Public Schools, and the University of Cincinnati. He has primary responsibility for all aspects of NLRB proceedings, strike preparedness, including coordination of security measures, obtaining injunctions against mass picketing and violence, pursuing contempt orders, initiating criminal prosecutions, coordinating the hiring of a replacement workforce, and defending management in related proceedings.

Education