Metropolitan Edison Lineman

Representing Labor since 1937

Kimmel Center

JAMES KATZ
JKatz@spearwilderman.com

Jim has been practicing union-side labor law since 1981, representing a wide array of public and private sector labor organizations in New Jersey. Jim graduated from Brandeis University in 1973 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1981, where he was awarded the Goldstein Memorial Labor Law Prize and the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award. Jim has been a speaker at seminars on behalf of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third and D.C. Circuits, and in state and federal courts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Jim has argued before the United States Supreme Court, and has frequently appeared in cases before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the New Jersey Supreme Court. Jim has been involved in a number of matters resulting in published opinions on a variety of important labor, employment, and civil rights issues.