Andrea Clark-Smith is the vice president of Employee Relations and Senior Associate Counsel with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in Pittsburgh, PA . Prior to supporting UPMC, Smith worked for American Airlines, in Fort Worth, TX as its Senior Employment Law Counsel. A Pittsburgh native, Smith started her legal practice with the law firm, Reed Smith and later the firm Jackson Lewis; she also taught a graduate course at LaRoche College in Pennsylvania on the Legal Aspects of Human Resources Management. Smith began her in-house legal practice in 1995 as an Assistant General Counsel with Rockwell International in Pittsburgh.
At UPMC, Smith leads the Labor Relations team, whose focus includes counseling management on employment law and immigration issues as well as managing employment litigation, negotiating, and administering the companies collective bargaining agreements. She received her undergraduate degree from Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) and her law degree from Emory University's School of Law (Atlanta, GA). She is a member of a number of legal and community organizations, including the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and the Advisory Board of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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