Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP's (Los Angeles, California, USA) Labor & Employment Department Chair William Cole has been selected as the 2012 Los Angeles Labor Law - Management Lawyer of the Year by The Best Lawyers in America. For more than 30 years, Mr. Cole has been a go-to lawyer among employers who have relied on his knowledge of the highly regulated labor-management relationship and his experience in complex labor arbitrations, negotiations, hearings and administrative proceedings, in litigation and at trial in state and federal courts.