Dr. John LaRocco

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Courses::Professional Status & History::Professional Experience::Education::Affiliations

Courses :

• MGMT 10: Introduction to Business Law
• HROB 157: Industrial Relations
• HROB 155: Conflict Management and Negotiation
• MBA 203: Legal Enviroment of Management - (Syllabus, PDF file)
  
• MBA 232: Negotiation
• MGMT 234 : Industrial Relations

Professional Status & History::

• Arbitrator/Mediator/Factfinder practicing nationwide with home base in Northern California.
• Professor of Law, California State University, Sacramento, California (1993 - Present)
• Adjunct Instructor - California State University at Sacramento, California (1983 - 1992)
• Coordinator - California State University, Sacramento, Labor-Management Relations Extended Learning Program (1988 to 1991).
• Instructor - University of California, Davis, Extension Program (1987 - 1992)
• Attorney - Chicago, Illinois (1977 - 1980).

Professional Experience ::

Arbitrator on the arbitration panels maintained by the American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Mediation Board, Sacramento County Judicial Arbitration Committee, California State Mediation and Conciliation Service and California Public Employment Relations Board. Member, National Academy of Arbitrators. Licensed to practice law in California, the District of Columbia and Illinois (inactive). Author of many published articles on labor relations and labor law.

As an Arbitrator, since 1980, I have heard approximately 3,000 cases involving many different issues and parties. Extensive experience in interest arbitration, mediation and factfinding in both private and public sectors. Arbitration experience in the federal, state and local governments (including education, special districts, fire and law enforcement) and the following private industries:

Mediation of grievance and bargaining disputes in the private and public sectors including mediation activities as a member of Presidential Emergency Board No. 211.

• Permanent Arbitrator: BN and TCU (1984-1995); TCU and NRLC (Joint National Salary Board) (1991-Present); BLE and NRLC (1987-1993); IBF&0 and BN (1980-2003); BMWE and NRLC Work Stabilization (1991-2000).
• Member of Presidential Emergency Board No. 211 (1986).
• Served on the panel of arbitrators for: McClellan Air Force Base and AFGE; IAM and NWA; IBT and NWA; IAM and AS; ALPA and AS; AFGE and GSA; CSEA and JUHSD; ALPA and SOU; IWA and Champion; AFGE and Hill AFB; IBT and Sea-Land; IBT and MMA; ALPA and AE; ALPA and NWA; IBT and SJUSD; and UTU and AR.
• Neutral on Roster List for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
• Hearing Officer for Civil Service Commission of Sacramento.
• Hearing Officer for Sacramento County Employees' Retirement System.

Education ::

• Master of Laws, Georgetown University Law Center at Washington, D.C.
• Juris Doctor, University of San Diego School of Law at San Diego, California
• Master of Science, Industrial Relations, Loyola University at Chicago, Illinois
• Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Professional Affiliations ::

• National Academy of Arbitrators
• American Bar Association
• Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of America
• State Bar of California
• Section of Labor and Employment Law of the Sacramento County Bar Association (Chair, 1995-1996, Newsletter Co-Editor, 1997-1998)
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Bar
• United States District Court Bars for the Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts
  of California and the Northern District of Illinois
• Industrial Relations Research Association
• Industrial Relations Association of Northern California
• International Society for Labor Law
• Italian American Attorneys Association of Superior California (President 1983-84)
• Academy of Legal Studies in Business