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SWEET AND ASSOCIATES
ATTORNEY PROFILES
Mark
A. Sweet
Areas of Practice: Labor Law, Employment
Law
E-mail Address: msweet@unionyeslaw.com
Mark
A. Sweet practices primarily in the areas
of labor and employment law on behalf of unions and employees. He
received his B.A., with honors, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1990 and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota
Law School in 1994. During law school, Mr. Sweet served as Staff
Member and Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review.
A trial attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1994-1996, Mark has experience litigating both unfair labor practice and representation cases. Prior to opening his own law firm in 2001, Mark worked for the law firms of Shneidman Myers (Milwaukee) and Robein, Urann & Lurye (Louisiana). Mark has lectured to unions throughout the Southeast and the Midwest regarding the duty of fair representation, organizing strategies, steward training, and NLRB practice and procedure. Mark also represents unions before the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, and has represented individuals entitled to relief under the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act, Family Medical Leave Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Fair Housing Act.
Mark is licensed to practice before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and various federal district courts. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wisconsin State Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association, the Lawyers Coordinating Committee of the AFL-CIO, the Milwaukee Workers Rights Board, the American Bar Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and the Milwaukee Bar Association.
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