Albert G. Kroll
is the founder and managing member of Kroll Heineman Carton. Mr. Kroll has extensive experience in
representing labor and employee benefit clients in the building construction
trades, service and health care industries.
He serves as General Counsel to the New Jersey State AFL-CIO and New
Jersey Building and Construction Trades Council. He has gained national attention as an attorney
in areas including project labor agreements and mergers of labor organizations
and employee benefit plans.
Mr. Kroll served
as an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board from 1974 until 1978. He is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, the
leader in professional excellence and ethics, and was selected as a New Jersey
“Super Lawyer” by his peers.
Recognizing the depth of his experience Mr. Kroll was
appointed to serve as Commissioner of The New Jersey Department of Labor. He served from January 2002 to June
2004. During his tenure Commissioner
Kroll supervised 4,000 government employees and was responsible for
administering unemployment insurance benefits, disability insurance benefits,
workers’ compensation benefits, job training, work incentives, occupational
health and safety, vocational rehabilitation, and state labor laws. During his tenure, over 260 contractors were
debarred from bidding on public construction jobs, over twenty-five million
dollars were recovered for workers and over fourteen million dollars in
penalties and fines were paid to the NJDOL for wage violations. Also, during his tenure, New Jersey became
the only state to enact legislation authorizing project labor agreements. In December of 2005, Governor- Elect Jon
Corzine selected him to serve as Chairperson of the Labor and Workforce
Development Transition Team.
Mr. Kroll has
held a number of executive and leadership position with the New Jersey Bar
Association, including Co-Chairperson of the Legislative Committee, Executive
Coordinator for the Committee of Arbitration and Collective Bargaining, and
Co-Chairperson for the committee on Practice and Procedure before the National
Labor Relations Board.
Scholastic History