GARY A. MARSACK is Chairman of the Board of Directors and a senior shareholder of the Milwaukee-based labor and employment Law Firm of Lindner & Marsack, S.C.

Mr. Marsack obtained his B.A. degree in 1965, Marquette University; J.D. 1968, Marquette University Law School.

Mr. Marsack has practiced exclusively in the area of labor and employment law since his graduation from law school.  From 1968 to 1971, he was trial counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, Region 7, located in Detroit, Michigan. While with the Board's Regional Office, he was responsible for the litigation of complex unfair labor practice matters before administrative law judges and the NLRB and injunction proceedings in federal district court.  In 1971, he joined the Detroit law firm of Clark, Hardy, Lewis and Fine.  While with the firm, he represented primarily school boards in suburban school districts outside the City of Detroit, Michigan.  The majority of his representation consisted of collective bargaining on behalf of the districts providing labor strategy and representation of the district in arbitration proceedings.  In 1972, Mr. Marsack served as primary counsel to the Pontiac, Michigan School Board in all labor matters arising out of the desegregation of the Pontiac school system.

In 1973, Mr. Marsack joined the firm of Peck, Brigden, Lindner, Petajan and Peck, the predecessor law firm to Lindner & Marsack, S.C.  A substantial part of his legal work with the firm has involved the representation of national clients in all phases of traditional labor law.  In this capacity, he has consulted with clients on collective bargaining issues and collective bargaining strategies, employee communication campaigns, general labor matters, contract administration issues, plant closings, third party outsourcing, consolidations, work relocations and transfers and subcontracting issues and has represented clients in the litigation of complex labor issues in arbitration, before state and federal agencies and before state and federal courts.

Mr. Marsack has been sought out by venture capitol groups and other law firms and major accounting firms to assist their clients in the labor law aspects of mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and corporate downsizing, and the myriad of labor and employment issues which arise as a consequence of such entrepreneurial decisions.  As a result of his expertise in this area of labor law, he was asked to co-author the definitive work: Management's Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions published by John Wiley & Sons; specifically, he wrote the chapter entitled, "Strategies for Dealing with a Labor Union." 

Mr. Marsack writes and lectures extensively on labor law issues, including trends in collective bargaining, legal developments before the National Labor Relations Board and courts, compensation and benefits issues, and equal employment and discrimination matters.  He has published a law review article on the labor relations aspects of mergers, acquisitions and successorship law entitled: Successorship Law.  The Impact on Business Transfers and Collective Bargaining, Marq. Law Rev., Vol. 65, No. 2 (1981). 

Mr. Marsack is recognized as an expert in his field as represented by his inclusion for over fifteen years in the definitive work:  The Best Lawyers in America.  Chambers USA has rated Mr. Marsack one of the 25 best lawyers in the state of Wisconsin and the best labor lawyer in the State.  In their most recent edition, he was referred to as one of the Dean's of the Wisconsin Bar.  In addition, since its inception, he has been designated a Super Lawyer By Wisconsin's Super Lawyers.

Mr. Marsack serves on the American Bar Association, Developing Labor Law Committee and is a past member of the Board of the State of Wisconsin Bar, Labor and Employment Law Committee.  He is a contributor to the book Developing Labor Law and its annual supplements. 

He is a member of the American Bar, Michigan and Wisconsin Bar Associations and is admitted to practice before United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and Michigan and before several Circuit Courts of Appeal.