Ron Mendrick helped managers solve legal problems, including:
- Discrimination, Employment Contract, Disability, & Harassment Claims, and Settlement Negotiations & Dispute Mediation, and Religious Issues
- Leaves and Absenteeism, Handbooks and Work Rules
- Employee Discipline, Severance Arrangements Negotiations, Discharge and Termination
- Union Organizing Campaigns, Collective Bargaining, Unfair Labor & Improper Practice Charges, and Grievance/Arbitration
- Pay for Performance, Executive Employment, and Compensation Plans
- Recruitment, Promotions, Transfers, Re-training, and Downsizing & Layoffs, and Early Retirement Programs
- Wage-Hour, EEOC, and OSHA Investigations
- School Board Policies and Procedures, Tenure and Probation, Elections and Electioneering, Student Rights, Bullying, & Discipline, Bids, Contracts, & State Mandates, and Capital Projects, Land Purchases, Sale & Use
- Open Meetings Law and FOIL
Prior to legal practice, Ron served in various managerial positions in higher-education institutions in New York, Vermont and Pennsylvania, and since retiring from legal practice has served as a consultant conducting Board and Superintendent Workshops, Investigating Allegations of Discrimination, Hostile Environment, & Bullying, and Administrative Organization, and other matters.
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
- Board of Education, Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District (President, six terms)
- President, Monroe County School Boards Association
- Vice President, New York State Public Employers Relations Association
- Chair, Labor Relations Committee, Monroe County School Boards Association
- Board Member, Rochester Human Resources Association
- Board Member, Center for Dispute Settlement
- Board Member, Monroe County Bar Association
- Chair, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Monroe County Bar Association
- Chair, Labor and Employment Law Committee, Monroe County Bar Association
- Chair Settlement Week Task Force, Labor & Employment Law Committee, Monroe County Bar Association
HONORS & AWARDS
- AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Named the Best Lawyers® 2015 Education Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Rochester
- Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the fields of Education Law, Labor Law – Management, and Employment Law – Management
- Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers® 2012-2013