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John A. Entenman
Member
Employment
Automotive

jentenman@dykema.com

Detroit, Michigan
313-568-6914

Education
University of Michigan, B.A.
  Phi Beta Kappa
Harvard University, J.D.
  cum laude

Admitted to Practice
Michigan
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

John Entenman, a labor and employment attorney, has been representing corporations, governments, educational institutions and other businesses in labor and employment matters for more than 35 years.  The Detroit-based labor lawyer, who has extensive experience in public sector labor relations, union-related matters and employment law, is a certified labor arbitrator.  Mr. Entenman represents clients in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, the Michigan Employment Relations Commission and in collective bargaining and arbitration.

He provides top quality, cost-effective general labor counsel to clients such as the PGA TOUR, the City of Dearborn, Alma Products Company and United Parcel Service.  He is often sought to provide legal counsel on wage/hour matters, employment discrimination, non-union arbitration, freedom of speech and constitutional issues.  In addition, he frequently represents clients at the bargaining table with the UAW, Teamsters, SEIU, USW, MEA, POAM and other unions.  
 
Mr. Entenman is a frequent speaker on union organizing, collective bargaining, freedom of speech, successorship and other timely labor and employment issues.  He is also the author of many articles on union-management relations and served as an adjunct professor of Public Sector Labor Law at the University of Detroit Law School.

Seminars and Speeches

  • 9/2008  Legal Update, MPELRA
  • 9/2007  Legal Update, MPELRA
  • 11/2006  Freedom of Speech
  • 5/2006  Personality Testing
  • 11/2005  Union Organizing
  • 5/2005  Contemporary Employment Issues
  • 1/2005  News From The Bargaining Table

Publications

  • How Arbitration Works (Contributing Editor) BNA  (2005)
  • Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration (Contributing Editor) BNA  (1998)
  • "After Acquired Evidence," State Bar of Michigan - Labor and Employment Section  (1997)

Awards

  • Named a Michigan Super Lawyer by Law & Politics (2007 & 2009)

  • Named a Best Lawyer in America each year since 2007