Late last October, Lafe Solomon received word in the mail that a section of the American Bar Association had named him Federal Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year. Given the relentless public pummeling he has taken as the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, he was more than a little surprised. “I was shocked,” Solomon says.

Under ordinary circumstances, the ABA’s recognition of an NLRB lawyer might have been seen as, well, normal. After all, the association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law had twice given top honors to NLRB counsel in the previous five years. But for Solomon and the rest of the board, the months preceding the notification had hardly been run-of-the-mill.

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