James M. Mets, Esq.

Advisory Board Legal Adviser

James M. Mets, is a founding partner of Mets, Schiro & McGovern, LLP. He concentrates his practice in representing both public and private sector unions in all aspects of labor-management relations, with a particular emphasis on public sector collective negotiations.

Mr. Mets has served for many years as an instructor in many different venues, including the State PBA Collective Bargaining Seminar, the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the American Arbitration Association, and the Rutgers Union Leadership Academy. He has been a guest speaker at the National Labor Relations Board Annual Conference, the N.J. League of Municipalities Annual Conference, and the Association of Labor Relations Agencies Annual Conference.

Mr. Mets graduated magna cum laude from Montclair State College and received his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, where he was awarded the Reitman Labor Law Scholarship. He is admitted to practice law in the courts of the States of New Jersey and New York and in the Federal Courts (United States Supreme Court, United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and United States District for the District of New Jersey).

Mr. Mets has received the following honors in the field of Labor and Employment Law: New Jersey Super Lawyer by New Jersey Monthly Magazine from 2005 through 2013; The Best Lawyers in America from 2006 through 2014; New York Area’s Top Lawyers by New York Magazine from 2006 through 2013; top Lawyer by Inside New Jersey in 2011; and a top lawyer by The American Lawyer in 2011. His Firm has been ranked as a 1st tier Law Firm in the area of Labor and Employment Law by U.S. News & World Report, Best Law Firms Edition (2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013).