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Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ) selected Fellow Carol Miller (Birmingham, AL) for its Best of the Bar awards program. As an honoree, she was featured in the April 15 edition of the BBJ and honored at an April 14 event at City Club Birmingham. The Best of the Bar awards program is designed to acknowledge the work of accomplished area lawyers across a wide range of practice areas. Honorees are selected from a public pool of nominations which are submitted through BBJ’s website and are determined by a panel of editorial judges. Top criteria includes contributions to their fields, tangible accomplishments in their practice area, and contributions to their respective firms. Factors such as professional reputation and civic involvement are also considered.
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Fellow Rosemary Townsley (New York, NY) was recently appointed by the NYS Senate to serve a six-year term as a member of the three-person NYS Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). PERB primarily governs and regulates all public sector labor and employment law matters, pursuant the statute known as the Taylor Law, including the recognition or certification of an employee organization to serve as the exclusive representative of a unit, elections, improper practices, duty of fair representation, impasse procedures including mediation, fact-finding, and binding interest arbitration. She was again listed in the current editions of Best Lawyers and SuperLawyers for the New York State region in the ADR area. She resides in New York City with her husband, Fellow Howard Edelman.
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The Ohio Board of Professional Conduct reelected Fellow Patricia Wise (Toledo, OH) as board chair for a second, one-year term which started January 1, 2022. Patty has served on the board since 2014 and has chaired the Budget and Personnel Committee. In 2019, she chaired the ad hoc board committee that recommended the appointment of Disciplinary Counsel Joseph Caligiuri for the Ohio Supreme Court. Patty Wise is a partner with the Toledo firm Spengler Nathanson PLL.
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In Memoriam
The College mourns the recent passing of Fellow Stanley Lubin.
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Stan Lubin, 2nd from the left, along with Jimmie Dulaney Sr., far left, and Fellows Samantha Dulaney and Mark Gaston Pearce at the 2019 Induction Dinner, New Orleans, LA.
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Stanley Lubin (Phoenix, AZ) passed away on April 6, 2022 at the age of 80. Inducted in the Class of 2008, Stan spent his legal career practicing labor and plaintiff-side employment law. He started his career at the NLRB in the Appellate Court Section of the General Counsel’s office. In 1968, he became Assistant General Counsel to the United Automobile Workers in Detroit, and in 1972, moved to Phoenix where he went into private practice representing labor unions and employees. He started his own solo practice in 1986 which eventually became Lubin & Enoch in 1997.
Committed to improving the lives of working people, Stan was recognized with an AV Martindale Hubbell rating for forty years. He founded the Labor & Employment Section of the State Bar; served as a founding member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee and was given the Albert Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Who’s Who for demonstrating unwavering excellence throughout his career. He also won the prestigious Member of the Year Award for the Employment & Labor Section of the State Bar of Arizona in 2015. A committed College Fellow, Stan served on the Circuit Credentials Committee for the 9th Circuit South from 2010 to 2015 and was a member of the Regional Activities Committee for the same area, where he had worked to initiate programming for the state of Arizona. Unfortunately, the passing of his wife Barbara and the pandemic made such efforts difficult.
Stan’s complete obituary can be read here. A celebration of life will take place on May 20th at 2 pm (local time) at IBEW Local 640 in Phoenix, AZ and will be broadcast via Zoom using this link:
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Members of the College strive to promote achievement, advancement and excellence in the practice of labor and employment law. Mr. Lubin distinguished himself as a leader in the field, and the College was proud to call him a Fellow.
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I hope this finds everyone well. This Newsletter typically speaks to the goings on of the College, such as the importance of nominating those who meet the highest standards for admission into the College (with an emphasis on increasing the number of Fellows from underrepresented constituencies), diversity and inclusion, regional activities and programs, active projects and new directions. However, I thought given the recent world events, a deviation from “normal” is appropriate. In particular, I thought it worth discussing two topics that are in the forefront of our lives - resiliency and collegiality.
I grew up in a liberal Jewish home in New York fighting for the underdog and protesting injustices. I always knew I wanted to be a civil rights lawyer. I went to University of Wisconsin School of Law in Madison, where I had the opportunity to do prisoners’ rights work and to co-found the Women’s Law Journal. In 1985, I held a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center. During my fellowship year, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted certiorari in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986), the landmark sexual harassment case, and I was assigned, as part of my fellowship, to work on Mechelle Vinson’s legal team. I had the great good fortune to work with a team of seasoned and brilliant women’s rights lawyers -- Marcia Greenberger, Judy Lichtman, Linda Singer, Sarah Burns, Susan Deller Ross, Katherine McKinnon, Wendy Williams to name a few -- to devise a winning strategy. 
A lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area, my goal after law school was to return home (primarily to start attending Philadelphia Eagles games in person again). But my law school, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was viewed as too parochial in that marketplace, and my applications for a summer position after my second year received tepid response. One of my Father’s business partners pulled some strings, and I was hired to summer in the labor and employment group of the largest firm in the city. I had the privilege of being mentored by future NLRB Member Peter Walther and others who later would become CLEL Fellows. When the Mailer’s union at the local evening newspaper (an evening newspaper - what a concept?) went out on a wildcat strike, my path to a future career as a management-side lawyer was set. I was hooked.
