Eugene K. Connors, Esq. Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh Mr. Connors guides local, national and international companies of every type and size on how to best balance employer-employee needs and concerns with far-sighted but fair employment practices. He focuses on maximizing management options under every circumstance. This includes purchasing, consolidating, relocating, automating or closing businesses; retaining or regaining union-free status; and negotiating hundreds of labor and other employment agreements with affordable, flexible working conditions critical to competitive success. Beyond strategic planning and problem avoidance, Mr. Connors represents employers before federal and state courts, federal, state and local administrative agencies, arbitrators and mediators. In 1979, for instance, Mr. Connors, the youngest Reed Smith lawyer in its 125+ year history to appear before the Court, persuaded the Supreme Court of the United States to accept for review and then overturn a 9-0 federal appellate court decision which had vastly expanded rights and options for employees alleging employment discrimination. Prior to Reed Smith, Mr. Connors worked with the New York City law firm of Poletti Freidin Prashker Feldman & Gartner, which represented several of the major airlines and other companies in labor and employment matters. Mr. Connors has been: - an adjunct professor since 1978 with St. Francis College of Loretto, Pennsylvania in its Personnel Administration/Industrial Relations Master of Arts Program, teaching problem solving courses in “hot” employment concerns, fair employment practices, collective bargaining, and alternative dispute resolution; - a faculty member for several years at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Annual Employment Law Institute for employment and other lawyers; and - a speaker for clients, educational institutions, and international, national, state, county, regional and community associations.His publications include federal, state, and local employment laws for Pennsylvania employers; acquiring, selling, relocating, automating, or closing businesses; legal and practical considerations in effective employer-employee relationships; employee privacy rights; the Internet, electronic mail and voice mail; hiring and firing; and alternative dispute resolution. Listing Mr. Connors are publications such as Chambers USA’s Leading Lawyers in America, Philadelphia Magazine’s Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America. Mr. Connors received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York City and his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Connors, a citizen of the United States and the Republic of Ireland, is both a U.S. and U.K. partner with Reed Smith. - an adjunct professor since 1978 with St. Francis College of Loretto, Pennsylvania in its Personnel Administration/Industrial Relations Master of Arts Program, teaching problem solving courses in “hot” employment concerns, fair employment practices, collective bargaining, and alternative dispute resolution; - a faculty member for several years at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Annual Employment Law Institute for employment and other lawyers; and - a speaker for clients, educational institutions, and international, national, state, county, regional and community associations.His publications include federal, state, and local employment laws for Pennsylvania employers; acquiring, selling, relocating, automating, or closing businesses; legal and practical considerations in effective employer-employee relationships; employee privacy rights; the Internet, electronic mail and voice mail; hiring and firing; and alternative dispute resolution. Listing Mr. Connors are publications such as Chambers USA’s Leading Lawyers in America, Philadelphia Magazine’s Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America. Mr. Connors received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York City and his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Connors, a citizen of the United States and the Republic of Ireland, is both a U.S. and U.K. partner with Reed Smith.