Melvin H. Osterman

Education, Mediation
One Commerce Plaza
Albany, New York 12260


Education

Admitted

1957, New York

Law School

Cornell University, LL.B., with distinction, 1957

Law School Graduation Year

1957

College

Cornell University, B.A., 1955

Memberships

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committees on: Law Reform, 1960-1963; State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction, 1966-1968; Labor and Social Security, 1971-1974); Albany County, Saratoga County, New York State (Member, 1977, 1984 and Chair, 1979-1982, Committee on Public Sector Employee Relations; Member, Executive Committee, Labor Law Section, 1979-1982, 1989—; Committee on Arbitration, 1982-1984; Chair, Committee on Practice and Procedure before the NLRB and SLRB, 1989-1991; Chair, Committee on Public Sector Book, 1991—) and American Bar Associations.

Biographical

Editor, Cornell Law Review, 1955-1957. Author: Federal Legislation for Public Sector Collective Bargaining, IPMA & AAA, 1974; Productivity Bargaining in New York State, Cornell University, 1975; New York State Disciplinary Procedure, 47 New York State Bar Journal 181, 1975; Productivity and Disciplinary Rules: How to Negotiate Them and Make Them Work, New York State School Boards Association, 1976; Jurisdictional Gaps & Overlapping Jurisdiction in Labor Relations, 47 Brooklyn Law Review, 1105, 1982. Contributor: The Evolving Process, Labor Relations Press, 1985; Laboratories for Change, ALRA, 1994; New York Lawyers Deskbook, New York State Bar Association 1989, 1991-2001 (Labor Law); Labor Management in the Public Sector, ALRA, 1999. Editor, Public Sector Labor and Employment Law, New York State Bar Association, 1988—. Adjunct Professor, Public Sector Labor Law, State University of New York at Albany, 1977-1986. Adjunct Faculty, Siena College, 2000. Legal Secretary to Mr. Justice Charles D. Breitel, 1958-1959. Assistant Counsel to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1961-1964. Counsel to the Governor's Committee on Public Employee Relations (Taylor Committee), 1965. Consultant on the Judiciary to the Temporary State Commission on the Constitutional Convention, 1966. Special Counsel to the Governor on Employee Relations, 1968-1972. Director of Employee Relations of the State of New York, 1972-1975. Member, Board of Directors, Bethlehem Soccer Club, 1995-1999. Member, Temporary State Commission on Eminent Domain and Real Property Tax Assessment Review, 1974-1975.

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