Strategic labor and employment litigator and advisor

Steve Kruzel is an experienced litigator and counselor who supports a wide range of employers — from multiple international manufacturers to startups — on traditional labor and employment issues. Steve’s practice has an emphasis on:

• Union relations
• Grievance arbitrations
• Collective bargaining
• Strategic defense of complex labor and employment disputes
• Mergers and acquisition support
• Class and collective action litigation

Steve works closely with his clients to gain a deep understanding of their businesses to help inform his legal and business advice. He also has completed two secondments for large clients and understands the unique pressures of serving in an in-house role. Steve relies upon this knowledge and experience to create negotiation, arbitration and litigation strategies that are comprehensive, practical and address each client’s needs and budgetary objectives.  

Steve is a frequent lecturer and trainer on labor law and employment topics.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Marquette University Law School (J.D., summa cum laude, 2014)
  • Marquette Law Review, editor-in-chief (2014)

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., 2011)

• "Developments at the National Labor Relations Board and Their Impact on Employers and Franchisors"
• A Thank You (Of Sorts) To My Mentors
• Bye, Bye Browning-Ferris: NLRB Overturns Browning-Ferris Joint Employer Standard
• Checkmate: Dues Checkoff Limitations In Wisconsin's Right To Work Law Found Preempted By Federal Law
• Congress Bars Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Harassment Claims
• Everything From The Obama Board Must Go! NLRB Majority Overturns Many Obama Board Decisions Prior to Chairman Phillip Miscimarra's Departure
• Lights Out on Class Action Arbitration: What Employers Now Need to Consider
• Navigating COVID-19 Summer Employment Issues
• New School Year Brings New Bargaining Units—NLRB Rules That Student Teaching Assistants Can Unionize
• New School Year Brings New Bargaining Units—NLRB Rules That Student Teaching Assistants Can Unionize
• NLRB Announces Withdrawal of Proposed Rule Preventing Private Student Unionization
• Plan Now for Workforce Reentry as Shelter-in-Place Orders Come to an End
• Sweeping Changes Proposed To Wisconsin Law Governing The Enforceability of Non-Competition Agreements
• Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down FTC Non-Compete Ban
• What Should Employers Expect in 2022, Non-COVID Edition
• What To Do (And Not Do) When A Union Campaign Hits
• Who Let the Dogs (Cats, Miniature Horses, and Mallard Ducks) In: Navigating Service and Emotional Support Animal Accommodations
• ​NLRB Rules That Employers' Private Email Systems Aren't So Private Anymore
• ​Pro Plaintiff Pockets More Than $200k Targeting Businesses' Background Check Procedures: Is Your Company Next?

Seminar

• 2019 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Annual Labor & Employment Law Symposium - Listen. Execute. Succeed.
• Annual Labor & Employment Symposium - Get the Big Picture
• Developing In-House Skills: Pathways to Success at Every Level
• Developments at the National Labor Relations Board and Their Impact on Employers And Franchisors
• Independent Contractors or Accidental Employees? The Latest On The Independent Contractor and Joint Employer Wars
• Labor Considerations for Non-Unionized and Unionized Employers in the COVID-19 Crisis
• Navigating the Changing Tides at the NLRB
• NLRB Closes Decade with a Bang! Learn How the Board's Recent Decisions and Rulemakings May Impact Employers in 2020
• The NLRB Is Remaking Federal Labor Law: Why Should You Care?
• The NLRB is Remaking Federal Labor Law: Why Should You Care?
• Union Organizing and The Brewing Industry: Recent Trends and Future Prospects
• Video Replay | 2019 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• Who Let the Dogs (Cats, Miniature Horses, and Mallard Ducks) In: Navigating Service and Emotional Support Animal Accommodations