Background
Mishkind, Charles S. was born on May 18, 1944 in New York, New York, United States.
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Charles S. Mishkind
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University of Arizona (Bachelor of Arts, 1966. Juris Doctor, 1971); New York University Law Center (Master of Laws, Labor Law, 1972).
Career
Worked at Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. (Detroit, Michigan. Also Grand Rapids) specializing in Labor, Employment and Benefit Law and Related Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1974, Pennsylvania.
1979, New Mexico; 1981, Michigan and United States. Supreme Court.
Listed in Euromoney Guides to the World's Leading Lawyers and Leading United States. Labor and Employment Lawyers.
Attorney, Enforcement and Advice Divisions, National Labor Relations Board, 1973-1976. Trial Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1976-1979. Member, Equal Employment Opportunity, Employee Rights, Employee Benefits and International Labor Law Subcommittees of the Labor Section.
Employment Litigation and Corporate Counsel Subcommittees, American Bar Association Litigation Section. Labor Section Liaison Chair with the Michigan Offices of the EEOC and OFCCP. Member: Banking Industry Labor Law Committee and National Retail Federation Committee on Employment Law. Program Chair, American Bar Association Equal Employment Opportunity Subcommittee, Labor Section, 1986-1989.
Member, Editorial Advisory Boards, Employee Relations and Employee Benefits Law Journal. Member, Board of Directors of Grand Rapids Urban League, 1989-1992. Adjunct Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Davenport College.
Chapter Editor and Contributing Writer for Schlei and Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law. Columnist on Employment Litigation for Employee Relations Law Journal and Benefits Law Journal which has included, most recently, the following articles: "Litigating to Settlement on your terms," "Update on Recent Trends in the Law: After-Acquired Evidence, Fraudulent Joinder and Alternative Dispute Resolution," "Diversity of Citizenship is a Virtue Everywhere but in Federal Court: Joinder of Non-Diverse Individual Developments to Defeat Federal Jurisdiction of Employment Disputes," and Joinder of Individual Defendants in Employment Litigation: Is Removal Still Possible." Speaker: National Employment Law Institute, "Employee Benefits Litigation," Chicago, Illinois, November, 1996. The Southwestern Legal Foundation Forty-Second Annual Institute on Labor and Employment Law, "ADR-Growing Use of Mediation/Arbitration to Handle Employment Claims/Cases.
1995 annual American Bar Association Meeting, "A Defense Perspective of the After-Acquired Evidence Defense After McKennon," American Bar Association Employee Rights and Responsibilities Subcommittee, March, 1995, "Settlements - the Right Time - the Right Amount - the Right Language". American Bar Association EEO Subcommittee Midwinter Committee Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March, 1994, "Retiree Insurance Benefit and Early Retirement Incentive Plan Litigation;" The Corporate Bar Association of Westchester and Fairfield, Inc. May, 1994 "Employee Benefits Litigation;" New York University's 47th Annual National Conference on Labor, June 1994, "Litigation Under Section 510 of ERISA" and "After-Acquired Evidence;" Chair and Speaker: Michigan ICLE Update on Employment Discrimination and Litigation, June, 1994, "Negotiating and Drafting Settlement Agreements;" National Employment Law Institute on Litigating Glass Ceilings, May, 1994, "Litigating Glass Ceiling Cases;" Co-Chair, Prentice Hall Second Annual Employment Litigation Institute, February, 1993, San Francisco, California and New York City Co-Chair and Speaker on The Controversy Over an Employer's Obligation to Continue to Provide Post-Retirement Benefits.
Co-Chair, 1992 Prentice Hall Seminar on The Civil Rights Act of 1991 and Sexual Harassment Developments, "Establishing and Administering Policies Against Racial and Sexual Harassment," Chicago. Co-Chair of 1992 ICLE Seminar on "Defending Claims Under ADA," Dearborn, Michigan. Speaker, American Bar Association National Institute Section of Labor and Employment Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, October, 1992, "Alternative Dispute Resolution of Employment Issues," Co-Chair, 1991 Prentice Hall Annual Employment Law Institute, "The Controversy Over the Duration of an Employer's Obligation to Continue to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits to Retirees," 1990 Defense Research Institute's ERISA Litigation Seminar, NYC, "Protected Rights Under Section 510 of ERISA: "Avoiding Something for Nothing;" 1990 ALI-American Bar Association Advanced ERISA Program, "The Controversy Over an Employers' Obligation to Continue to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits to Retirees," Phoenix, Arizona.
Practicing Law Institute's January 1990 Employment Litigation Seminar, on "Benefit Administration and Litigation;" Financial Accounting Standards Board Hearings on FASB's proposed "Exposure Draft for Employers Accounting for Post-Retirement Benefits Other Than Pensions;" 1990 Southwestern Legal Foundation's 36th Annual Institute on Labor Law, "The Controversy Over an Employers' Obligation to Continue to Provide Health and Welfare Benefits to Retirees;" Vanderbilt Law School's 1989 Symposium on EEO Developments, Nashville, Tennessee. Co-Chairman, September 27-28, 1989 Employment Claims and Litigation Conference, Executive Enterprises in Chicago, Illinois. Speaker, "Employee Benefit Litigation Over Retiree Insurance Benefits and Under Section 510 of ERISA;" June 1989 CCH Toronto, Canada Seminar, "Employee Benefit Regulation - Pension and Health Care Issues, Severance Pay, Employee Litigation;" "Establishing an Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures;" Practicing Law Institute's April 1988 Annual Employment Litigation Presentation, NYC. Chair, Executive Enterprises Seminar on "Age Discrimination, Wrongful Discharge and Employee Benefit Litigation." Member: American Bar Association (Member, Equal Employment Opportunity, Employee Rights, Employee Benefits and International Labor Law Subcommittees of the Labor Section.
Employment Litigation Subcommittee, Litigation).
Membership
Member, Equal Employment Opportunity, Employee Rights, Employee Benefits and International Labor Law Subcommittees of the Labor Section. Employment Litigation and Corporate Counsel Subcommittees, American Bar Association Litigation Section. Labor Section Liaison Chair with the Michigan Offices of the EEOC and OFCCP. Member: Banking Industry Labor Law Committee and National Retail Federation Committee on Employment Law.
Program Chair, American Bar Association Equal Employment Opportunity Subcommittee, Labor Section, 1986-1989. Member, Editorial Advisory Boards, Employee Relations and Employee Benefits Law Journal. Member, Board of Directors of Grand Rapids Urban League, 1989-1992.
Adjunct Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Davenport College. Chapter Editor and Contributing Writer for Schlei and Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law. Columnist on Employment Litigation for Employee Relations Law Journal and Benefits Law Journal which has included, most recently, the following.
