Henry Murray

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hfmurray@lapm.org 860-570-4635

Hank Murray practices law in the area of employment discrimination and civil rights and represents unions on legal issues related to organizing, collective bargaining and contract enforcement. He joined the law firm of Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly in 1996 after spending almost thirty years in the labor movement.

A nationally recognized expert on union democracy, internal union election procedures and compliance issues, Hank Murray was special assistant to the first court-appointed election officer in the Teamsters union and since that time he has organized, conducted and supervised hundreds of local, regional, national and international elections for over several dozen AFL-CIO unions as well as serving as a court appointed special master overseeing international union delegate elections, nominating conventions and rank-and-file voting.

Prior to joining the law firm, Hank had been a member of the international staff for the United Auto Workers union since 1977 where he served the union in a variety of capacities but principally as senior negotiator for the UAW in a number of industries including machine tool, bearings and ship building. Both as a UAW official and attorney he has negotiated hundreds of national and local collective bargaining agreements, and represented unions in arbitration enforcement proceedings and enforcement actions and appeared before the National Labor Relations Board.

A former skilled tradesperson and merchant seaman, Hank shipped out at sixteen as an apprentice seaman and worked for the next eight years, during and after college, as a journeyman sailor and member of the Seafarers International Union. Returning to Connecticut in the 1970s, he went to work in an aerospace machine tool factory and became a member of the UAW.

Hank is member of the Connecticut Bar Association's Employment and Labor section, a member of both the National and Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association (NELA & CELA), a member of the Hartford County Bar Association and the AFL-CIO's Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC). He has written and lectured on labor and employment law and has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law since 2000. He has also been active for many years in labor, community and progressive organizations including serving on the boards of the Connecticut Lung Association, the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund (CWELF), the Connecticut Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (ConnCOSH), and, for the past twenty five years has chaired the board of the Connecticut Citizens Research Group (CCRG). He and his family have lived in Hartford's West End neighborhood for the past thirty years where they are active in community revitalization efforts.

Hank is a summa cum laude graduate of the University Of Connecticut School Of Law where he was a Blumberg Scholar and recipient of the Fleming James Award. He also holds undergraduate degrees in history and philosophy, cum laude, from Yale College.