Lake County man named ABA Attorney of the Year

Lake County resident Daniel Nielsen has been awarded the American Bar Association's Arvid Anderson Award as 2021's public sector labor and employment law Attorney of the Year.

The award is given annually to an attorney whose career has substantially contributed to the development of public sector labor law in the United States. The award was recently presented at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

Since graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1982, Nielsen's career has included work as a mediator with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, an assistant professor of labor relations, and as a private mediator and arbitrator.

He has mediated labor agreement and arbitrated disputes across the country, although his primary focus is in Chicago and the upper Midwest.

Nielsen recently completed his term as president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, the professional organization for arbitrators in North America, where he led the profession's response to the COVID-19 crisis.

He formerly served as president of the Association of Labor Relations Agencies for the U.S. and Canada, and as co-chair of the ABA's State and Local Government Labor Law Committee.

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