Collective Bargaining Agreements: Critical Issues and Strategic Practices Explored

Patrick Campbell is a partner at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP. His practice includes both complex litigation and transactional matters. Patrick has represented clients in an array of different aspects in the labor field including certification proceedings, decertification proceedings, unfair labor practice proceedings, duty of fair representation cases, breach of collective bargaining agreement cases and negotiating collective bargaining agreements mostly in the sports field. Patrick’s clients have included Major League Baseball umpires, PGA Tour rules officials, PGA Tour agronomists and South Eastern Conference football referees.

Mr. O’Meally is an equity member and Chair of the Labor, Employment and Education department at PK Law.

Mr. O’Meally has worked closely with superintendents, boards of education, private schools, and private sector employers for over 36 years on a wide-variety of matters including collective bargaining, employment litigation, Title IX, civil rights litigation, construction and procurement issues, and Open Meetings Act compliance. A 1984 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law where he served as Executive Editor of the Maryland Law Review, Mr. O’Meally clerked for the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upon his graduation.

Mr. O’Meally is an Adjunct Professor of School Law at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, McDaniel College, and Morgan State University and has given numerous presentations on employment and education issues for the North American Association of Education Negotiators, the Education Law Association, the Maryland Association of Boards of Education, the Maryland Negotiations Service, the Association of School Business Officials, the Public School Superintendents Association of Maryland, the Office of Administrative Hearings, MICPEL, and other groups.