News

In May of 2007, the Missouri Supreme Court changed the law relating to public employee collective bargaining that had been in place for more than 60 years.  In response to this dramatic change in the law, some of the firm’s clients requested that Chris Hesse and Andy Martone prepare an analysis of the changes.  In response to a number of recent court decisions, Bobroff, Hesse, Lindmark & Martone, P.C. is making this analysis (which dates back to June 2007) available in our knowledge bank. It can be found here.

Based on a rigorous peer-review process, Andy Martone has been selected for inclusion in the 2011 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America^® in the practice area of Labor and Employment Law.

On July 28, 2010 eight BHLM clients, Pass One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning, Voss Heating & Air Conditioning, Holloway Heating & Air Conditioning, Collards Heating & Air Conditioning, DeRousse Heating & Air Conditioning, Genesio Refrigeration, D & C Sheet Metal and Charlie’s AC & Heating prevailed on a series of unfair labor practice charges filed by Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 268.  They were successfully represented before the National Labor Relations Board by Andy Martone and Angie Scott.

On June 9, 2010, BHLM client APL Logistics prevailed in a decertification election against the International Chemical Workers Union Council of the UFCW in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.  APL was represented in the decertification campaign and before the National Labor Relations Board by Andy Martone and Dan Doetzel.

On May 25, 2010, Arbitrator William Sigler ruled in favor of APL Logistics in the case and dismissed the Union’s grievance in its entirety.  Andy Martone successfully defended APL in this case, in which the Union alleged that grievant Richard Scott had been wrongfully discharged.  A copy of the decision can be found here.

On Friday, May 7, 2010, the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (Peoria Division) granted Keystone Steel and Wire’s Motion for Summary Judgment in the case of Gray v. Keystone Steel and Wire.  Andy Martone and Mindy Mahn successfully defended Keystone against charges of race discrimination, violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and claims of retaliation, with the Court dismissing all counts of plaintiff’s Complaint and finding that Keystone did not discriminate against the plaintiff on account of his race, violate the ADA or retaliate against the plaintiff.

The February 2010 issue of St. Louis Magazine reported that Michael Bobroff and Andy Martone were named as two of the top labor attorneys in the St. Louis region based on a national survey conducted by Woodward/ White for Best Lawyers®.

On December 8, 2009, Andy Martone will give a presentation entitled “Overview of Pension Fund Withdrawal Liability” at the Annual Convention of the Associated General Contractors of Illinois.  The Convention is  December 7 and 8, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Springfield, Illinois.  For more information about the presentation, contact Andy.  For more information about the Convention, contact the Associated General Contractors of Illinois at 217-789-2650.

Andy Martone has been selected in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, in the specialty of Labor and Employment Law.  Selection to the respected publication is based on a rigorous peer-review survey process.

For the fourth consecutive year, Andy Martone has been named as one of the Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States by Labor Relations Institute, Inc.  Andy was selected from more than 9000 attorneys evaluated by LRI based on his successful representation of clients in NLRB cases.