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Curtis L. Mack
Partner 
Promenade II
cmack@mcguirewoods.com1230 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2100 Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3534 F: 404.443.5782    |
Mr. Mack is a nationally recognized labor and employment lawyer. He has served as lead counsel in numerous labor and employment cases in state and federal courts. He has negotiated or tried more than 250 individual termination actions, as well as sexual and racial harassment cases, and NLRB and public sector hearings. He was previously regional director of the NLRB in Atlanta. He has also served as general counsel and as chair of the Florida Public Employee Relations Commission.
He has an unparalleled amount of experience in the counsel and representation of management in EEO, NLRA, OSHA, FLSA, ADA and general labor; and employment and personnel matters in the aerospace, automotive, chemical, construction, health care, hospitality, manufacturing, and pulp and paper industries. Over the course of his career, he has represented more than 30 of the nation's Fortune 100 companies, and has authored and co-authored several law review articles regarding labor and employment.
He has served as chair of the Human Relations Commission of the City of Atlanta since 1989, and is on the board of the We Are Family Foundation. He was a law professor at the University of Florida, where he taught labor and employment law. He served as adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law, and he serves as adjunct professor of labor law at the University of Michigan School of Law. He is a member of the Michigan State University College of Social Science Board of Visitors.
- Named One of "America's Leading Lawyers," Chambers USA, 2008-2011
- Named "Best of the Best," in the Article "Cutting-Edge Labor and Employment Practitioners," Diversity & The Bar, January/February 2006
- Named a Georgia "Super Lawyer," Labor and Employment, 2004, 2005
- "The Lawyer's Lawyer," Georgia Trend Magazine, 2004
- "America's Top Black Lawyers," Black Enterprise, 2003
- University of Akron Distinguished Alum, 1997
- Professor of Law, University of Florida, 1973-1974
- Florida Public Employees Relations Commission
- General Counsel, 1974-1975
- Chair, 1975-1976
- Adjunct Professor, Florida A.M. University School of Business, 1975-1976
- Adjunct Professor, Emory University School of Law, 1980
- Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan Law School, 1998
- Regional Director, National Labor Relations Board, Region 10, 1976-1981
- Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Georgia, 1989-Present
- "Challenging Recent Pro-Labor Executive Orders and The Employee Free Choice Act," (Co-authored with Mark L. Keenan and Brennan W. Bolt), Labor Law Journal, Winter 2009
- Co-Author, "Will Employment-At-Will Survive in Georgia?", Mack and Conti, Business Counselor, Vol. 4, No. 7, 1987
- "The Evolution of Recognition of Entrepreneurial Rights Under the NLRA," Mack and Conti, The Capital University Law Review, Vol. 14-3, 1985
- "NLRB Deferral to the Arbitration Process: The Arbitrator's Demanding Role," Mack and Bernstein, The Arbitration Journal, September 1985
- "Secondary Handbilling: The Need for a New Response," Briggs and Mack, Akron Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1984
- "Federal Fair Housing Laws: A Practical Guide," Mack and Briggs, Habitat, November 1984
- Author, "Constitutional and Statutory Liberties in the Employment Relationship," Mercer Law Review, Spring 1981
- "The Duty to Bargain in Good Faith-Recent Problems," Tennessee Law Review, Winter 1980, reprinted in National Law Journal Review, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1981
- "Promotions, Discharges and Seniority," (Chapter of "A Practical Guide to Equal Employment Opportunity: Law, Principles and Practices"), New York Law Journal, 1980
- "Florida Public Employees: Is the Solution to the Free Rider Problem Worse Than the Problem Itself," Florida State University Law Review, Fall 1978
- "Public Sector Collective Bargaining: Diffusion of Managerial Structure and Fragmentation of Bargaining Units," Florida State University Law Review, Spring 1974
- Chair, Human Relations Commission of the City of Atlanta, 1989-Present
- Who's Who in American Law, 6th Edition
- Alumnus, Leadership Georgia Foundation, Inc.
- Development Committee, University of Michigan Law School
- State Bar of Georgia
- Member, Labor and Employment Law Section
- State Bar of Michigan
- Florida Bar Association
- Gate City Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar
- Ohio State Bar
- American Bar Association
- Member, Section on Labor and Employment Law
- Committee on Practice and Procedure before the National Labor Relations Board
- National Bar Association
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EDUCATION University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, LL.M., 1973
University of Akron School of Law, Akron, Ohio, J.D., 1970 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, B.A., 1967 ADMITTED Georgia 1981 Florida 1975 Illinois 1975 Michigan 1971 Ohio 1970 PLACE OF BIRTH Valdosta, Georgia |