Biography

Mr. Livingston is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP where he represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. He chairs Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s national labor relations practice, reflecting over 60 seasoned labor relations attorneys across the Firm's nine domestic offices. He regularly handles both traditional union organizing and union anti-corporate campaigns, unfair labor practice matters before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), labor injunction proceedings and grievance arbitrations. He has extensive experience in handling complex collective bargaining negotiations, strikes, lockouts, and other work stoppages involving virtually every major labor union. He has served as chief spokesperson for management in reaching more than 100 collective bargaining agreements, and has acted as a member of or legal advisor to management’s bargaining team on hundreds of additional occasions.

Mr. Livingston’s litigation experience includes a broad range of federal and state equal employment opportunity and wrongful termination matters at both the trial and appellate level. In responding to hundreds of administrative agency and civil lawsuit claims, he has handled issues that span the full range of employment-related claims and protected categories. He also regularly advises employers on how to avoid litigation through the development of effective labor and employment practices and employee education and training programs.

Mr. Livingston has been elected as a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc. and is noted in “The Legal 500” for his work representing management in labor relations. He is a member of the International and National Labor Relations Act Subcommittees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Committee. In addition to his practice, he is a trainer for Seyfarth Shaw at Work and regularly writes and lectures on a number of national and international labor and employment law topics.

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law School, cum laude (1979)

B.A., University of Michigan, with High Distinction (1976)

Admissions

• Illinois
• Wisconsin

Courts

• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Seventh Circuits
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern District (Trial Bar) and Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin