Background
King, Bernard T. was born on February 28, 1935 in Gouverneur, New York, United States.
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Bernard T. King
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Le Moyne College College (Bachelor of Science, 1956). Syracuse University (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1959).
Career
Worked at Blitman and King Limited Liability Partnership (Syracuse, New York) specializing in Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Employee Benefits Law, Labor and Employment, Personal Injury, Trials and Appeals. Admitted to the bar, 1959, New New York Order of the Coif; Phi Alpha Delta.
Member, Justinian Honorary Society.
Associate Editor, Syracuse Law Review, 1958-1959. Recipient: Distinguished Alumni Award, Le Moyne College College, 1979.
American Arbitration Association Whitney M. Seymour Award, 1986. Distinguished Industrial Relations Alumni, Le Moyne College College, 1994.
Lecturer: Labor Studies Program, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1974.
Member: Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association. Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
Author: "Recognitional & Organizational Picketing," Syracuse Law Review, 1957.
"Union Democracy A Case Study," Syracuse Law Review, 1958. "The Taylor Acting, Experiment in Public Employer-Employee Relations," Industrial Relations Review, 1968 and Syracuse Law Review, 1969.
"Pre-Election Conduct - Expanding Employer Rights and Some New and Renewed Perspectives," Industrial Relations Law Journal, School of Law, University of California-Berkeley, 1978. Company-Author: "Current Trends in Construction Industry Labor Relations - The Double-Breasted Contractor and the Pre-hire Contract," Syracuse Law Review, 1979.
"Labor Relations and Antitrust: Developments After CONNELL," 3 Industrial Labor Relations Law Journal, 1979.
"The Rising Costs of Labor Arbitration: A Symposium," Labor Law Section Newsletter, New York State Bar Association, Volume 4, Number. 1, March, 1980; "Procedural Problems in Arbitration and Some Proposed Remedies," 1980 Annual Meeting of Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution. "Structuring Employee Benefit Plans Under the ADEA," Age Discrimination In Employment Acting, A Compliance & Litigation Manual, 1982.
"New Antitrust Developments Affecting Labor Law," Syracuse Law Review, Volume 33, Number.
4, Fall, 1982; "The Aging Workforce And Health Care Cost Containment," The 1988 Commerce Clearing House Labor and Employment In Symposium, November 17, 1988. "Current Issues In Collective Bargaining," Labor Law Developments 1988, 34th Annual Institute, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1988.
"Recent Developments Under Employee Retirement Income Security Act," Labor Law Developments 1990, 36th Annual Institute, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1988. "Recent Developments Under Employee Retirement Income Security Act," Labor Law Developments 1990, 36th Annual Institute, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1990.
"The Continuing Explosion of Employee Retirement Income Security Act Litigation," Labor Law Developments 1991, 37th Annual Institute, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1991.
"Employee Retirement Income Security Act - Recent Litigation and Other Significant Developments," Labor Law Developments 1992, 38th Annual Institute, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1992. "Current legal Developments Under Employee Retirement Income Security Act," Labor Law Developments, 1993, 39th Annual Institute, Southwestern Legal Foundation, 1993. Company-Editor: "The Developing Labor Law, Cumulative Supplement, 1971-1975," and Editor-In-Chief of 1976, 1977 and 1978 Annual Supplement, Section of Labor Relations Law, American Bar Association.
"New Antitrust Developments Affecting Labor Law," Legal Notes & Viewpoints, Volume 3, Number.
4, August, 1983. Editor: "The Developing Labor Law, Second Edition," BNA-American Bar Association, 1983. Secretary, Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency, 1978-1981.
Member, Editorial Board of "The Labor Lawyer," Journal of the American Bar Association Section of Labor & Employment Law, 1983. Secretary, Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency, 1978-1981.
Member, Board of Directors, Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corporation, 1972-1975.
Member, Board of Regents, 1973, Secretary, 1983 and Member, Board of Trustees, 1984-1990, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, 1988, Le Moyne College College. Member, 1974-1980, Vice President, 1977-1979, President, 1979-1980, Board of Trustees, Manlius Pebble Hill School. Corporate Member, United Way of Central New York, 1971-1975.
Member, Board of Directors, 1981-1987.
President, Alumni Association, Le Moyne College College, 1974-1977. Committee Member, 33rd Congressional District, Naval Academies Selection Board, 1980-1983.
Committee Member, American Arbitration Association Regional Advisory Council, 1982. Member, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association, 1988.
Member, Syracuse University Law School Board of Visitors, 1985.
Member: Onondaga County, New York State (Member, Executive Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section 1976 and Chairman, 1980-1981) and American (Member, Labor Law and Employment Law Committee, 1963. Chairman of Labor and Employment Section of American Bar Association, 1987-1988. Company-Chairman, Subcommittee B, Committee on Development of the Law under the NLRA, 1971-1976.
Company-Chairman, Committee on Development of the Law Under The NLRA, 1977-1979.
Member, American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits, 1981. Company-Chairman of Partito Liberale Italiano (Italian Liberal Party) Program presenting Construction Industry Labor Relations, 1977 and 1979, Council Member, Section of Labor Relations Law, 1979.
Company-Chairman, Publications Committee, 1982. Member: Liaison Committee on Developing Labor Law, 1982-1992.
Employee Benefits Committee, 1982.
Chairman, Section of Labor and Employment Law, 1987-1988. Delegate to American Bar Association House of Delegates, 1992. Member, American Bar Association Committee on the Drug Crisis, 1992) Bar Associations.
American Judicature Society.
Military: With: United States Air Force, 1961-1962. Air National Guard, 1959-1965.
Working for a better workplace since 1933, Blitman & King Limited Liability Partnership concentrates on the exclusive representation of labor organizations, fringe benefit funds and employees. We represent pension plans, health and welfare plans, apprentice plans and other trust funds which provide fringe benefits to employees.
We also represent individuals in wrongful termination matters.
Achievements
Membership
Member, board directors Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corporation, 1972-1975, Regents, since 1973, secretary, 1983—1984, board trustees, 1984-1990. vice chairman, board trustees, 1988, Le Moyne College College, 1974-1980, vice president 1977-1979, president, 1979-1980. Board trustees Manlius Pebble Hill School Corporation. Member United Way Center New York, 1971-1975, board directors, 1981-1987.
Committee member 33rd Congressional District Naval Academise Selection Board, 1980-1983. With United States Air Force, 1961-1962, Air National Guard, 1959-1965, Salvation Army, member board 1995. Fellow American Bar Foundation.
Member American Bar Association (labor law and employment law committee since 1963, chairman labor and employment section 1987-1988, section delegate to house of deals, member joint committee on employee benefits), Society Professionals in Dispute Resolution, Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association (board directors 1988), Onondaga County Bar Association, New York State Bar Association (executive committee, labor law section since 1976, chairman 1980-1981), American Judicature Society, American Bar Association Standing communications on substance abuse. Fel. American Bar Association College Labor and Employment Lawyers, American Bar Association American College Employment Benefits.
