JAMES E. CONWAY
10906Thimbleberry Lane
Great Falls, Virginia 22066
OCCUPATION: Attorney; Arbitration & Mediation Services; Intermittent Adjunct Professor - The Law of Sports - Washington College of Law, The American University, Washington, D.C.; George Mason University School of Law.EXPERIENCE: Includes extensive collective bargaining, mediation, arbitration, interest arbitration and litigation experience over a period of 39 years in airlines; railroads; trucking; professional sports; hotel/restaurant; public sector; and manufacturing. Full-time arbitrator/mediator since 1997.
FORMER POSITIONS/DUTIES: Assistant City Attorney, City of Minneapolis; Labor Counsel and Director of Labor Relations, Northwest Airlines (1968-76); Vice President Labor Relations, National Airlines, Inc. (1976-80); Vice President & Executive Director, Airline Industrial Relations Conference (1980-84); Assistant Executive Director & General Counsel, National Football League Management Council (1987-91); Partner and Of Counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. (Washington, D.C.) (1985-86 & 1991-96).
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/ACTIVITIES Member – National Academy of Arbitrators. Panel Member: National Mediation Board; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; New Jersey State Board of Mediation; Pennsylvania Bureau of Mediation; District of Columbia Public Employee Relations Board. Member: National Association of Railroad Referees; (Vice-President 2000-2006) & Program Chair - 2003 Annual Meeting.); Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals. Admitted: District of Columbia Court of Appeals; various federal districts; Supreme Court – State of Minnesota. Member - Board of Trustees - College of Saint Benedict – 1995-2001.
EDUCATION St. John’s University (MN) (Jan., 1963); William Mitchell College of Law (MN) (JD) 1967. (Editor “The Opinion;†American Jurisprudence Awards - Evidence, Contracts); Georgetown Law Center (LL.M). 1982. (Labor Law); Member, Steering Committee and panelist at numerous ABA, ALI-ABA, and other Sports Law and Railway Labor Act symposia. Publications include: “Standards Governing Permissible Self-Help,†Cleared For Takeoff: Airline Labor Relations Since Deregulation,†Jean T. McKelvey, ed., ILR Press, Cornell University, 1988
NOTE: His early career was spent on the management side of the fence with both Northwest and National. Additionally Mr Conway was "Of Counsel" to Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Read about Akin Gump here
One has to wonder what if any due dilegence was conducted by Velvet/CWA? Corret me if I'm wrong but don't BOTh parties have to agree to the arbitrator chosen?