Prior to becoming a full time neutral, Arbitrator Nancy E. Hoffman worked in labor relations and employment law both at the local government and at the State level.  Ms. Hoffman also spent a summer interning at the federal government level as well as a year in private practice representing school districts in labor relations and collective bargaining.  As a school teacher, city employee, state employee, attorney, manager, administrator, and a general counsel, Ms. Hoffman has directly experienced and worked with numerous and varying issues and concerns of employees, supervisors, managers, and appointees in the difficult task of delivering public service effectively, efficiently, on budget and on mission.

Ms. Hoffman is a graduate of the ILR School at Cornell University (B.S.), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University (M.A.), and the School of Law at St. John's University (J.D.), where she received the American Jurisprudence Award in Labor Law and in Contracts.  She is admitted to the New York Bar, the four federal District Courts in New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

During her many years practicing law in the labor relations and employment law fields, Ms. Hoffman was a frequent speaker at programs sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.  She also was a frequent presenter at programs sponsored by Cornell University, particularly the ILR School and the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution, as well as at St. John's University School of Law's Center for Labor and Employment Law, and at Albany Law School's Government Law Center programs.  Ms. Hoffman has designed and delivered numerous training programs for attorneys and for lay advocates in arbitration skills and jurisprudence, and in many other aspects of labor relations and collective bargaining.

Representing the City of New York during the "first" fiscal crisis in the seventies and on to her involvement with school districts,  local government and the State  during more recent fiscal crises in the nineties and periodically thereafter, Ms. Hoffman has dealt directly with issues involving the impact of such fiscal realities on collective bargaining agreements, pension funds, retirement benefits, and health benefits, among other related issues.

This varied and deep first hand experience, along with the knowledge, rigor and discipline of her legal training, gives Arbitrator Hoffman unique perspective and insights with which to hear the contractual and disciplinary issues she entertains as a neutral.