Just as the areas of specialization within labor law are numerous and varied, so are the sources of legal materials. Listed below is a sample of the variety of materials available in the King County Law Library.
Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law: A Manual for Attorneys Representing the Labor Movement, by the National Labor and Employment Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, Thomson West (1981): "Our aim is to provide a practical manual that will help start serious research, answer basic questions, and help avoid some common pitfalls."
Employee Benefits Law, 2nd ed., Employee Bene-fits Committee, Section of Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association, Bureau of National Affairs (Washington, D.C., 2000) - "A comprehensive, case law-based treatise in a complex and rapidly developing area of law."
Family and Medical Leave Act, Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee, Section of Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association, Bureau of National Affairs (Washington, D.C., 2006): "Attempt[s] to address in a logical, comprehensive, and accurate way the issues that practitioners on all sides must face in exercising rights under and complying with the Act."
Mark Filipp, Covenants Not to Compete, 3rd ed., Aspen Publishers (New York, 2005): "Fully explores legal principles for forming, drafting and implementing sound non-competition agreements."
How Arbitration Works, 6th ed., by Elkouri & Elkouri, Committee on ADR in Labor & Employment Law, American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment Law, Bureau of National Affairs (Washington, D.C., 2003): "How Arbitration Works has been justly acclaimed as the most comprehensive, definitive, and authoritative treatise on labor arbitration."
Ethan Lipsig, Downsizing: Law and Practice, American Bar Association, Bureau of National Affairs (Washington, D.C., 1996): "Downsizing discusses the major business, legal, and human resources issues encountered in RIFs." It also contains fully annotated model forms.
Jeffrey Mamorsky, Health Care Benefits Law, Law Journal Press (New York, 2001): "Designed to É make sense out of the non-stop parade of federal and state legislation and regulatory actions and ever-growing issuance of decisional law by federal and state courts."
Please stop by the library to view these and other resources dealing with labor law.
