Mr. Ladov was a labor lawyer exclusively representing management in all areas of labor/employment law both in the private and public sectors.  Mr. Ladov regularly  practiced before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and many other regulatory agencies.  Mr. Ladov was also a prolific speaker on a wide variety of topics involving human resources and labor and employment law.  He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for labor and employment law, in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers where he is ranked among the most highly rated labor and employment lawyers in Pennsylvania, and in Philadelphia Magazine’s “Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.”

Mr. Ladov represented employers in:

• Union Avoidance Campaigns
• Matters before the NLRB
• Collective Bargaining
• Fair Employment Matters
• Labor Arbitrations
• General Labor and Employment Law Counseling 

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, 1973

Education

• J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1973
• B.A., Labor Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 1970

Noteworthy

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for labor and employment law
• Listed as one of the Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States
• Listed in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers where he is ranked among the most highly rated labor and employment lawyers in Pennsylvania
• Listed in Philadelphia Magazine’s “Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.”

Memberships

• Labor/Employment Law Sections of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations
• Labor Counsel, Pennsylvania Health Care Association
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Pennsylvania Society of Health Care Attorneys
• Society of Human Resource Management
• Pittsburgh Human Resource Association

Seminars & Speeches

• Arbitration Issues in the Health Care Industry - Why Health Care is Different, National Academy of Arbitrators 55th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (May 31, 2002)
• Labor and Employment Law Update, Pennsylvania Association of Directors of Nursing (PADONA), Harrisburg, PA (June 26, 1998)
• Performance Management, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (May 13, 1998)
• Gripers, Whiners and Complainers – Will Your Treatment of a Perpetual Complainer Put Your Business on Trial?, Council on Education in Management, Pittsburgh, Pa (April 8, 1998)

Publications

• Co-author, The Unions Aren’t Coming – They’re Here, Hospital News (July 2000)
• Co-author, The Unions Aren’t Coming – They’re Here, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 2000)
• Author, NLRB Requires Bargaining with Union Prior to Installing Surveillance Cameras, Update (June-August 1997)
• Co-author, Courts Hold Healthcare Employees to Higher Standards of Conduct, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 1996)
• Author, How I Spent The Afternoon Telling the Teamsters How to Bargain, The Legal Intelligencer (March 28, 1996); Manufacturing & Management (March/April 1996)
• Featured, Contract Squabbles Involve Care Issues at Nursing Homes, Pittsburgh Tribune Review (April 14, 1996)
• Featured, Nursing Home Operator is Under Heavy Pressure, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (April 2, 1996)
• Author, He Drives Home Bargaining Ideas, Pittsburgh Post Gazette (December 24, 1995)
• Author, Clinton Signs Executive Order Barring Government Contractors from Permanently Replacing Striking Employees, Perspectives (April 1995)