JIM PETROFF

James Petroff is a Board-Certified Specialist in Labor & Employment Law by the Ohio State Bar Association with thirty years of national practice experience in all aspects of collective bargaining and traditional labor law matters for a variety of private sector, public sector, federal sector, and Railway Labor Act unions. He has represented pilot, railroad, and other RLA unions, since 2001. Prior to joining Wentz, McInerney, Peifer & Petroff, LLC, he practiced union-side labor law for more than thirty years, and was a Judicial Clerk with two judges on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals in Franklin County, Ohio. He concentrates his practice on collective bargaining and litigation, including employee benefits cases and class actions in the federal and state courts. He has appeared on the Ohio Superlawyers website with a star credential.

He has frequently served as an author on labor issues including: New Topic Author, Chapter 19, “Constitutional Issues in Public-Sector Arbitration,” A. Ruben, Elkouri & Elkouri, How Arbitration Works (Bureau of National Affairs 6th ed. 2003); Contributing Author, Chapter 14, “Change in Bargaining Representative,” P. Hardin, The Developing Labor Law (Bureau of National Affairs 2002- present) (Main Volume and Cumulative Supplements); Senior Editor, Chapter 3, “Scope and Coverage of the Railway Labor Act,” The Railway Labor Act (Bureau of National Affairs 2016-present). He has also frequently served as a speaker for the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee in the Midwest and at the national level, for the national Teamsters Lawyers Conference, for bar associations, for business employment law seminars, and for RLA union training programs.