Mr. O’Meara is a shareholder in the Philadelphia office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. He is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School, and is Managing Director of the Wharton School Council on Employee Relations. Mr. O’Meara is the author of a series of articles and books, including O’Meara, Employment Arbitration (Matthew Bender/Lexis 2007) and Arbitration of Employment Disputes (University of Pennsylvania 2002). Mr. O’Meara holds an MBA from the Wharton School, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and was on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Mr. Pasek is a member of Cozen O’Connor, working out of the firm’s offices in Philadelphia and New York, and past chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice group. He concentrates in representing management in all facets of labor and employment law and also represents senior executives in their employment matters. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1976 and received his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1973 from the University of Pittsburgh. He is active in the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, where he serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Mr. Pasek is called upon to lecture frequently to business groups and continuing legal education programs. He is widely published on a range of employment law issues, and his work has been translated in six languages. Mr. Pasek is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, and has tried cases and argued appeals in the federal courts throughout the United States, including before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Pasek is an elected Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has twice been chosen by Best Lawyers in America as a Lawyer of the Year for his work as a litigator and representative of management in workforce issues. He served for six years as a public member of the Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association, which accredits veterinary colleges worldwide for the US. Department of Education, and is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Marc Sanders Foundation, which supports excellence in academic philosophy and is committed to using philosophy to help the world approach larger personal and societal issues with the thoughtfulness, care, and rigor needed to drive understanding and change and to cultivate and preserve civil discourse, public dialogue, and a healthy democracy.