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Biography

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 to mediate employment disputes (including disputes between law firms and their employees and partners), and as a labor and sports law arbitrator.

Other Info About George

Education

Law School

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1977, cum laude

Undergraduate School

The Ohio State University, B.A., 1974, summa cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Memberships

George is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Ohio, 1977

Courts

George is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

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

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

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

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Commercial Club

Queen City Club

Coldstream Country Club

Ryland Lakes Country Club

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

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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