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Douglas P. Seaton is a founding shareholder of Seaton, Beck & Peters, P.A. He counsels and advises employers and trade associations on employment policies and practices and employment problem-solving of all kinds, and represents employers in federal and state court litigation and administrative proceedings involving labor and employment claims and charges. Mr. Seaton also advises and represents employers in connection with union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, strike management and National Labor Relations Board proceedings. He has handled numerous individual employee termination proceedings and arbitrations in non-union and union settings.
Prior to founding Seaton, Beck & Peters, in 1995, Mr. Seaton was a shareholder with Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., where he also represented employers in all types of labor and employment matters. Mr. Seaton was one of the originators of Popham Haik’s Labor and Employment Law Section and chaired the section for several years.
Before joining Popham Haik in 1982, Mr. Seaton served for four years as legislative analyst and counsel to the Minnesota House of Representatives Labor-Management Relations Committee and to the Joint House-Senate Legislative Commission on Employee Relations. He worked on all the significant employment and labor legislation passed in Minnesota during that period, including major acts affecting public and private sector labor relations, employment discrimination, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, occupational safety and health, retirement, wage and hour regulation, arbitration and employment regulation. He also counseled the Joint Commission in the course of its management of State labor relations and review of State employee labor contracts.
Mr. Seaton graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University in 1970 and 1975, concentrating on labor relations history. He attended the University of Minnesota Law School and William Mitchell College of Law, graduating from the latter in 1981. Mr. Seaton is admitted to the Minnesota Bar and the Federal District Court, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court Bars.
Mr. Seaton has taught numerous employment and labor law legal education and employer training sessions, has published a book and numerous articles in legal and trade periodicals, and has spoken on employment law topics to legislative committees, gubernatorial task forces, trade association meetings and legal education seminars in several states. He is a member of the local, state and federal employment and labor law bar sections, and has chaired the Hennepin County Bar Labor and Employment Law Section and the Minnesota State Bar Labor and Employment Law Section. Mr. Seaton has been designated one of Minnesota’s “Leading American Attorneys” in a poll of lawyers conducted by American Research Corporation and as a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics and Twin Cities Business magazines. |
