American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
Amicus Curiae
Laurence Gold, Counsel of RecordThe AFL-CIO is a federation of 75 national and international unions with a total membership of 13,000,000. Laurence Gold is a partner at the firm Bredhoff & Kaiser. Prior to that, he served as the AFL-CIO’s general counsel. He also teaches at New York University and is a 1961 graduate of Harvard Law School. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 14, 1999.This Court’s mandatory fee cases through Glickman v. Wileman Bros. & Elliott, Inc. (1997) define, in a variety of contexts,…
