Constangy, Brooks & Smith Attorney Reappointed As Vice Chairman of the Labor Relations Committee for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Wendy Angel
Public Relations Coordinator
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP
404-230-6724 Office
Wangel@constangy.com

ATLANTA- National labor and employment law firm, Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP, has announced that W. Melvin Haas, partner, has been reappointed as vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee. He was first appointed to the position in 2009. Haas has also recently been elected executive vice president of Georgia Defense Lawyers Association.

Haas has a wealth of labor and employment law experience, having handled more than 100 union elections, including several of over 1,000 employees in the voting unit. He has represented management in numerous unfair labor practice proceedings, representation case hearings, objections case hearings, as well as arguments before the Courts of Appeals. Haas was recently named to Human Resource Executive Magazine's 2010 list of "Top 10 Most Powerful Labor Attorneys” in the nation and has been named to the Labor Relations Institute’s list of Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States. He has successfully represented management in the largest elections in Georgia and North Carolina in the last ten years.

One of the Chamber’s largest and most active policy committees, the Labor Relations Committee is responsible for helping to form the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor & Employment agenda. The committee’s nearly 150 companies, law firms and trade associations from across the country develop Chamber policy and programs on a wide range of labor and employment issues, including: employment nondiscrimination, minimum wage and wage-hour, occupational safety and health, immigration, labor-management relations, union corporate/strategic campaigns, workplace privacy, work-family issues and leave mandates, and emerging international labor policy issues.

The head of Constangy, Brooks & Smith’s Macon office, Haas has served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Labor Relations Committee for four years.

He has been active with the Georgia Defense Lawyers Association (GDLA)  for more than 10 years, having previously served as secretary-treasurer before now being elected executive vice president. The GDLA was founded over 40 years ago by a group of civil defense attorneys who wanted to create a forum for networking outside of the office, courtroom and arbitration table.

Before joining Constangy, Haas was an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board and an in-house labor counsel. He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law and received his undergraduate degree from Emory University.

About Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP:
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP has counseled employers on labor and employment law matters, exclusively, since 1946. A “Go To” Law Firm in Corporate Counsel and Fortune Magazine, it represents Fortune 500 corporations and small companies across the country.  Its attorneys are consistently rated as top lawyers in their practice areas by sources such as Chambers USA, Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, and Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States.  More than 120 lawyers partner with clients to provide cost-effective legal services and sound preventive advice to enhance the employer-employee relationship.  Offices are located in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey. For more information, visit www.constangy.com.