Peggy Browning Virtual Awards Program - New York 2020

Board of Governors. She is also a Past Chair of the NewYork State Bar Association’s Section on Labor and Employment and currently serves as an ex-officio member of its Executive Committee. Ms. Townley is a former adjunct professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law where she taught a course on collective bargaining and client counseling. Her labor arbitration experience includes work in the airlines industry, telecommunications, universities, medical centers, newspapers and related dotcoms, entertainment, and matters involving cities and states. Her employment arbitration cases since 1998 have involved multi-plaintiff cases to individual matters involving claims such as breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, honest services, tortious interference and other matters in sectors such as banking/ investment banking/financial services, corporate entities, hedge funds, pharmaceuticals, retail, and fashion, among others. Ms. Townley has served as speaker at many conferences in her area of specialty, presenting to professional organizations such as the ABA, NELA, the NYSBA, the FMCS, and UC Berkeley School of Law. She has authored many articles or edited books on the topics of labor and employment law. Her publications include contributions to the Elkouri treatise How Arbitration Works (BNA), the Brand treatise Discipline and Discharge in the Workplace (BNA) and co-editor of the 2nd edition of the treatise Public Sector Labor and Employment Law in NewYork State (NYSBA). Ms. Townley holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.