JOHN R. MOONEY
Senior Counsel
Since starting in the profession in 1982, John
Mooney's practice has been primarily devoted to advising unions in
both the private and public sector on a wide array of labor and
employment issues, including local, intermediate and international
unions. His practice also includes the representation of employee
benefit plans. Long recognized as an expert in labor law and
union-side labor relations, including collective bargaining and
internal union affairs, Mr. Mooney was selected as a Fellow in the
College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is listed as one of
the Super Lawyers in the District of Columbia. He completed his
undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary in
Virginia and received his law degree from the Columbus School of
Law at Catholic University where he was a member of the Law
Review.
Mr. Mooney's practice has taken him before the full range of
adjudicative bodies. In addition to representing labor
organizations before the National Labor Relations Board, Mr.
Mooney regularly participates in litigation and arbitration on
behalf of his clients. In particular, he has been extensively
involved in federal litigation in courts throughout the country
seeking to protect retiree health care in the coal industry. To
that end, he has been involved in numerous cases at each level of
the federal system and participated in collective bargaining
matters involving retiree health care. Over the course of the last
15 years, these cases consumed a significant amount of his time
and the successful conclusion of these matters is one of his most
significant accomplishments. In addition to the federal court
litigation involving retiree health care, he has also had
extensive involvement in complex federal RICO and state defamation
cases. Most notable was the successful representation of United
Mine Workers of America before the United States Supreme Court in
the matter of Eastern Associated Coal Company v. United Mine
Workers of America.
Mr. Mooney currently serves as the General Counsel of the
Strategic Organizing Center ("SOC"), formerly known as Change to
Win. The SOC is a democratic coalition of national and
international labor unions and represents more than 4 million
workers.
Although actively practicing throughout this period, Mr. Mooney
has also been committed to the legal education of law students as
well as practitioners. Starting in 1985, he was a member of the
adjunct faculty at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic
University teaching a course in the labor-management areas of
pension law. After teaching at Catholic University for five years,
he taught various labor law school classes, both undergraduate and
postgraduate, at Georgetown University Law Center for 10 years. He
has also presented papers at numerous conferences on a variety of
labor law and litigation topics including presentations to the
International Foundation of Employee Benefits, the AFL-CIO Lawyers
Conference and the International Conference of Teamsters Lawyers.
He has presented papers on Electronically Stored Information and
E-Discovery at the Teamster Lawyers' Conference in 2007, the ABA
Section of Labor and Employment Law's CLE Conferences in 2008,
2012 and 2013 and the AFL-CIO Lawyers' Conference in May, 2009.
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