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George E. Yund
Retired Partner
Cincinnati, OH
Retired Partner
Cincinnati, OH
Before retiring effective January 2024, George practiced for his entire career as a labor and employment lawyer with Frost Brown Todd and its predecessor firm, Frost & Jacobs.
George’s nationwide experience includes labor negotiations and arbitrations (including MLB salary arbitration cases), employment law trial work and counseling, wage/hour collective actions, and assisting employers with affirmative action compliance and defending OFCCP audits. George’s practice also included sports law issues, serving as chief outside counsel to Minor League Baseball from 1988 until the Minors became franchised by MLB in 2020.
In addition, George is experienced in law firm management, having served as Claims Counsel to the firm from 2001 through 2008, and then as the firm’s Managing Partner and CEO from 2009 until 2018.
Although now retired from the practice of law, George is available for arbitration employment disputes (including disputes between law firms and their employees and partners), and as a labor and sports law arbitrator.
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1977, cum laude
The Ohio State University, B.A., 1974, summa cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
United States Supreme Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Fourth, Ninth, Eleventh and D.C. Circuits
United States District Courts in Ohio’s Northern and Southern Districts
The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers, Fellow
Selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers®, 2017-2018
The Best Lawyers in America®: Employment Law – Management, 2011-2025; Labor Law – Management, 2011-2025; Litigation – Labor and Employment, 2011-2025, “Lawyer of the Year,” 2012, 2013, 2014
Chambers USA, Labor & Employment, 2015-2022; Eminent Practitioner
2009 Ranked Band 1 (Top 7) Labor & Employment Attorneys in Ohio; 2008 Ranked Band 1 (Top 7) Labor & Employment Attorneys in Ohio – “George Yund receives wide acclaim as one of the leading attorneys in the field. ‘A considerable force in the Ohio market.’”, “He is credited with having excellent business sense and the ability to recognize when his client has a problem, and peers admire his work ethic and expediency: ‘He knows the facts inside-out.’”; 2010-2012 Ranked Band 1 (Top 7) Labor & Employment Attorneys in Ohio; 2012 Band 2 Labor and Employment
Commercial Club
Queen City Club
Coldstream Country Club
Ryland Lakes Country Club
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, past President, 2019-2022; Board Member, 2012-present
DePaul Cristo Rey High School, Board Member, present
REDI Cincinnati, Board Member, 2019-2024
Cincinnati Regional Business Committee, Member, 2013-2019
CBA/BLAC Roundtable (founded in 1987 to promote diversity in Cincinnati law firms), 1987-2019
United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Board Member, 2011-2017
United Way Foundation, Board Member and Chair, 2014-2018
Visiting Nurse Association, Board Member, 2009-2018
Inroads of Greater Cincinnati, past Board Member
Urban League of Greater Cincinnati, past Board Member
School Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, past Board Member
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