Biography:
Willis Goldsmith represents management in a number of industries in all phases of labor and employment law. From 1991 to mid-year 2006, he was Firmwide chair of Jones Day's labor and employment practice and is currently Partner-in-Charge in New York. His experience includes practice before state and federal trial and appellate courts in matters arising under the National Labor Relations Act, Section 301 of the Taft-Hartley Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Section 1113 of the Bankruptcy Code, and in injunction, breach of contract, and employment cases. Willis also has been actively involved in collective bargaining and labor contract administration.
He was appointed to serve as an adviser to The American Law Institute in connection with its Restatement of the Law Third, Employment Law; from 1990 to 2002, he was a member of the editorial advisory board of the Benefits Law Journal for which he wrote a benefits litigation column; and in December 2002, he was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's 15-member National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics. He has authored numerous articles and participated in many conferences focusing on labor and employment law issues.
He is listed in the labor and employment law sections of The Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, the labour section of An International Who's Who of Legal Business Lawyers, has been named by Law & Politics as one of New York's "Super Lawyers," and identified by Human Resource Executive magazine and Lawdragon as one of the "The 50 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys in America."
He is a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a member of the Labor Law Advisory Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Litigation Center; the advisory board of the New York University School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the ABA (Labor and Employment Law Section: Employee Benefits Committee, Occupational Safety & Health Law Committee, and former associate editor of Occupational Safety and Health Law, published by the Bureau of National Affairs); and the New York State Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section). He is a member of the board of directors of the Legal Aid Society of New York City and of Appleseed.
