Our Labor Counseling, Litigation and Collective Bargaining practice group is among the largest and most experienced in the Twin Cities. We represent privately held businesses, local and national corporations, health-care facilities, non-profit institutions, and governmental employers before state and federal courts and administrative agencies across the country. We work closely with employers to develop short- and long-term strategies for successfully managing the work force to achieve quantitative and qualitative production and service goals while minimizing or eliminating the bases for the legal and labor disputes that disrupt operations.

Our attorneys have successfully defended employers against union- and employee-initiated lawsuits and unfair-labor-practice charges, have litigated to halt unlawful picketing, secondary boycotts and labor violence and have represented employers at the collective-bargaining table, before the NLRB and in arbitration. We believe the creation of constructive union-management relations requires firm but fair interactions backed by aggressive defense of employer rights to operate without compromising any decision-making authority.

Leonard, Street and Deinard works with clients to ensure that any strategy or action pursued is consistent with the overriding business philosophy as well as the nature of the dispute.

Leonard, Street and Deinard has represented a wide variety of clients in labor-related matters:

• General Mills, Inc.
• H.B. Fuller
• Grand Forks Herald
• Duluth News Tribune
• Shred-It
• WBI Holdings
• Griffiths Corp
• Wrico Stamping
• Le Meridien Hotel
• Alliant Techsystems
• Harvard Maintenance
• Crown Plaza Hotel
• Centerplate
• VEE Corporation
• Ethanol 2000
• Open Cities Health Care
• IR Bobcat Company
• Knight-Ridder, Inc.
• St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Canadian Pacific Railway
• Cenex-Harvest States
• Honeywell Corp.
• Intek Plastics, Inc.
• Marvin Windows & Doors
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative
• Lyman Lumber Company
• Roto-Rooter, Inc.
• NorthWestern Corporation
• Marshfield Door Systems, Inc.
• The Salvation Army
• Thermal Line Windows
• Rahr Malting Co.
• Americraft Carton, Inc.
• Souris River Telecommunications
• C.F. Industries, Inc.
• Public Housing Authority of the City of Saint Paul 
• Dakota Gasification Company
• Bridon Cordage, LLC
• Universal Cooperatives, Inc.
• McLaughlin & Schulz, Inc.
• Golden Oval Eggs
• D.B. Industries, Inc. (DBI Sala)