Salvi, Albert

Richard Saks represents labor unions and employees in all aspects of collective bargaining and individual employment relationships. Since 1993, he has represented the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, and represents other unions including the Office and Professional Employees International Union Midwest United Local 2009, Teamsters Local 743, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998 and Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association Local 599. Rich represents individual employees in a wide range of claims including workplace discrimination, wages and overtime, sexual harassment, workers compensation, and covenants not to compete. Rich also represents citizens and organizations such as the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP in voting rights and campaign finance matters.

Rich graduated with a B.A. in Labor Relations from Rutgers University in 1976 and from Chicago-Kent College of Law with High Honors in 1992. He then clerked for one year for federal judge Elaine Bucklo of the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Rich has published articles on the voting rights act and judicial elections (Note, Exemption or Redemption: The Voting Rights Act and Racial Discrimination in Judicial Elections, 66 Chi-Kent L.Rev. 245 (1990-91), Balancing Wisconsin's Judiciary, 67 Wis. Law. 6 (Nov. 1994)).