Profile of Arbitrator Drucker
Jacquelin F. Drucker is a full-time arbitrator of employment, labor, and complex commercial cases, with a nationwide and international practice. Ms. Drucker serves on the American Arbitration Association's panels for employment, labor, commerical, and class-action arbitrations, as well as the Association’s panel for large, complex commercial disputes. She is a member of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s Roster of Labor Arbitrators, the National Mediation Board’s Panel of Arbitrators, the rosters of many state labor boards, and other major national and local arbitration panels.
A Governor of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), Ms. Drucker serves as a permanent labor arbitrator under dozens of collective bargaining agreements and handles cases in a wide variety of industries, including airlines, automotive manufacturing, communications, construction, corrections, defense contractors, education, entertainment, federal government, financial services, food service, food production, gaming, hauling, health care, higher education, hotels, law enforcement, local government, journalism, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceuticals, plastics, publishing, retail, security services, shipping, social services, state government, steel, technology, theater, transportation, trucking, and utilities. She also arbitrates ERISA matters and has served as a deadlock arbitrator for various funds.
As an employment arbitrator, Ms. Drucker handles cases involving the full range of statutory and contract claims under employment ADR systems and pursuant to individual employment contracts. She has arbitrated many statutory claims of discrimination (race, sex, religion, age, national-origin, and sexual orientation) and has heard cases asserting violations of state and federal wage and hour laws. Arbitrator Drucker has decided numerous actions involving alleged breaches of individual employment, compensation, and severance contracts of CEOs, COOs, mid-level managers, fund managers, sales personnel, entertainers, physicians, and other professionals, and she has handled a variety of claimed breaches of non-compete, trade secret, and anti-poaching clauses. She also has arbitrated complex cases between commercial entities based in the United States and abroad.
Ms. Drucker is on the adjunct faculty of Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Cornell Institute on Conflict Resolution, where she teaches programs on employment arbitration, labor arbitration, mediation, employment law, and labor law. Ms. Drucker served for five years as the Director of Programs for Neutrals at the Cornell School of Industrial Relations and as Deputy Director for Educational Programs for the Cornell Institute on Conflict Resolution. She also has conducted basic and advanced arbitrator-training seminars for Pepperdine University Law School's Straus Institute, and she served as a consultant to the W. J. Usery, Jr. Center for the Workplace in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Drucker developed and presented the American Arbitration Association’s first nationwide training program for its Employment Arbitration Panel and was a lead trainer for the Association’s 2002-2007 nationwide advanced employment arbitrator training program. In 2002 and 2003, at the request of La Junta de Relaciones Laborales de la Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, Ms. Drucker traveled to the Republic of Panamá to conduct a series of training programs that she designed for local arbitrators.
During her 30-year career in labor relations and employment law, Ms. Drucker practiced law on the management side, spent several years as a union lobbyist, and, before relocating to Manhattan in 1990 upon her marriage to a New Yorker, served as the General Counsel, Vice Chair, and Executive Director of the then newly formed Ohio Employment Relations Board. She was instrumental in the development of Ohio's public sector collective bargaining law, the formation of its adjudicatory and impasse-resolution board, and the creation of the state's labor arbitration and mediation service. While in the private practice of law, Ms. Drucker served as counsel to the Governor's Task Force on Collective Bargaining, handled NLRB matters, represented employers in arbitrations and negotiations, and litigated employment discrimination and individual contract cases on behalf of management.
Arbitrator Drucker has written and lectured extensively on employment law, labor law, arbitration, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). (Please see "Publications and Speeches" page.)
Playing a leadership role in many professional organizations, Ms. Drucker is a Past Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section. She also served as that Section's CLE Chair and was Neutral Co-Chair of its Committee on ADR in Employment. Arbitrator Drucker also served as Neutral Chair of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section Committee on ADR in Labor and Employment Law and was Chair of the New York County Lawyers Association Committee on Labor Relations and Employment Law. In 2006, she was elected as a Governor of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), having previously served as Chair of its 2006 Annual Meeting and as a member of the NAA’s Task Force on Employment Arbitration. Ms. Drucker is the official liaison to the NAA from the American Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law. She is a member of the National Executive Board of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA, formerly IRRA). Arbitrator Drucker was inducted in 2006 as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and in 2004 as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
In the Martindale-Hubbell attorney listings, Ms Drucker carries the highest possible rating (AV).
Ms. Drucker earned her law degree from The Ohio State University College of Law, where she served as Chief Justice of the Moot Court Governing Board and was an award-winning member of the National Moot Court Team. She is admitted to the practice of law in Ohio, New York, and various federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States.
Click here to view an article about Ms. Drucker from the March 2007 edition of MoritzLaw, This Month @ Moritz, the on-line newsletter for alumni of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.