Lindner & Marsack, S.C., one of the region’s most respected and long-standing management-side labor and employment law firms, announced that Luis Padilla, Jr. has joined the firm as a Partner. Padilla will practice out of Lindner & Marsack’s Milwaukee office.

Padilla brings decades of experience in management-side labor relations, having led internal labor and employment operations for municipal governments, national health care providers, utilities, and private sector employers across the country. He has served successfully as first chair and chief spokesperson in collective bargaining for municipal, multinational, and regional employers, and has extensive experience representing employers in grievance arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, and before the National Labor Relations Board.

Padilla earned his JD from Golden Gate University and holds a Master’s Degree in Health Law from Loyola University of Chicago. He is fully bilingual in Spanish and previously served as an Administrative Law Judge for the State of Illinois—becoming one of the first Spanish-speaking judges hired in the state. He was also one of nine original hearing officers appointed by the Chicago Commission of Human Relations to adjudicate civil rights cases under the city’s ordinance.