Management-side Traditional Labor Lawyers: What does your day to day look like? Bonus if you do elections or collective bargaining work, but would also love to hear from people who do ULPs and arbitrations. Would you recommend the speciality for someone who wouldn't mind traveling across the US for months at a time?

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i’ve been a labor lawyer for 15 plus years. Spend 80-120 nights per year on the road. Typically in bargaining three days a week or on a campaign for 2-4 weeks at a time. Days consist of bargaining prep and all day meetings, putting out fires, and negotiating with the board on things. Campaign comes in, you have to be able to shuffle and drop things to piss off to nowhere Louisiana. Have a good associate to keep track of thing since you make partner and try to focus on big picture/strategy.

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A1 - big three.

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For another perspective, I practiced on the union side for several years and rarely traveled overnight. I was in a major (heavily unionized) metro, and most of our union clients were local. I traveled for bargaining and campaigns, but it was mostly just an hour or so away from the office max. Traveled overnight maybe 2-3 times per year for out of town work.

A typical day was spent in the office or at a union hall preparing for arbitrations, bargaining, elections, and Board hearings (Board office was also in our city), providing client counsel on issues as they arose, and attending said arbitrations, hearings, elections, and bargaining sessions.

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This makes sense to me. I do not live in a heavily unionized area so I have to go where the unions are, except for campaigns which can be anywhere. My guess is that most of your union clients were local to your city, whereas most of my clients have multiple locations and once they find a lawyer they like, they want that person to travel as opposed to giving it to a local lawyer (if there even is one) in my firm.

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I used to do it. Negotiations and arbitrations were remote. ULPs is just investigating and drafting a position statement so lots of writing. Hearings require like 2-4 weeks prep and travel to hearing. I handled local elections on-site. We had enough people around the country to cover in-person stuff so I only traveled for ULP hearings. I think how much you travel is firm dependent. If there’s only a small group at a firm, then more travel since there’s no one else to cover.

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Lol I'm on the Union side. Most of our bargaining, arbs, and mediations are remote. 🤣

10 to 15???? What I wouldn’t give, i’m
in year 2 of at least three separate negotiations.

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