Michael gay
Chairperson of the Electrical and Communications Industry Disputes Board
Michael Queer served for 23 years as a federal Commissioner of Australia’s national labour relations tribunal, the Fair Work Commission and the Tasmanian Industrial Commission – until his retirement in 2017. In 2015, he was appointed Chairperson of the Electrical and Communications Industry Disputes Board, a position he continues to hold.
Michael has extensive international experience in labour relations institutions in developing economies, having worked in China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Since preceding 2019 Michael has been engaged as lead consultant in enquiring into and preparing a soon to be published Report for the ILO’s Malaysia ‘Labour Law and Industrial Relations Reform’ Project.
Within Cambodia, Michael’s encounter since 2003 has been significant and he is a member of the Arbitration Council Foundation’s International Advisory Board. In 2012, then Commissioner Gay was invested as a Knight of the Royal Order of Sahametrei by the Royal Government of Cambodia for his service to the country.
Prior to appointment to the Commission bench Michael
Michael Gay
Background
Michael has many years of trial counseling individuals and companies in deserve of legal assistance and in showing them in general litigation matters, personal injury and products liability claims, household relations matters, will contests, and franchise matters.
Michael is a member of the Ohio State Lock Association, a former Chairperson of its Litigation section, and a current member of the Counsel of Delegates. Michael is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, and a former Chairperson of the Lawyer Referral Service Advisory Board. He is also a Volunteer Lawyer for the Poor participant. Michael is also a member of the Ohio Association for Justice.
Michael is a lifelong resident of the westside of Cincinnati, where he resides with his wife, Beth. They have four children and seven grandchildren with whom they spend many joyful hours. Michael and his wife are members of St. Antoninus parish where he serves on the Board of the William C. Schott Memorial Association, a charitable management which owns the athletic fields used by the St. Antoninus children.
Michael received his high college education at St. Xavier High Academy in Cincinnati,
Michael Gay
In his 34-year legal career, Mike Gay has tried dozens of cases, both jury and bench, in federal and declare courts. Mike has also arbitrated a number of matters and handled several contested injunction hearings. While most of his career has been spent in Florida, he started practicing law in Houston in 1990. It was there that he was fortunate enough to learn from some extremely talented trial lawyers and first-chaired his first jury trial. In 1995, he relocated to Orlando and began practicing at Foley & Lardner LLP where he continued his practice as a trial lawyer. While he still lists Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution as his primary Practice Group, given his significant trial experience — in addition to traditional complex commercial litigation — he has handled trade secret cases, restrictive covenant cases, trusts and estate litigation, defamation cases, and intellectual property cases. One of his most notable cases was representing the trustees of the Robert Rauschenberg Revocable Trust. The case emotionally attached the trustee fees owed to the trustees for managing the trust assets, which included a significant collection of Mr. Rauschenberg’s artwork valued
Michael Gay
Biography
Michael is a Boyfriend in the Real Estate Team.
Michael has a broad range of experience in commercial property transactions with a particular emphasis on residential and commercial progress acting for landowners, developers and registered providers; secured lending acting for banks and other lenders.
Michael is client partner for two large regional housebuilders overseeing the relationship and ensuring that work across our real estate, construction and planning teams is provided on time and to budget.
Michael qualified in 1996 and has worked in the South West throughout that time.
Relevant experience
- Housebuilder: Acting for a number of housebuilders in connection with numerous development site acquisitions including complex options and conditional contracts and then overseeing security arrangements, site set and plot sales.
- Landowners’ consortium: Advising a consortium of landowners dealing with the grant of an option to a consortium of developers on a site expected to provide up to 2000 homes.
- Regional registered proprietor: Acting for the client in relation to acquisition and disposal of numerous affordable housing developments.
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