Michael Zinser is president of The Zinser Law Firm, P.C., in Nashville, Tennessee. His firm represents over 250 daily newspapers, stretching geographically from Hawaii to Iowa to New York. He has particular experience with the independent contractor issue, Wage and Hour laws, and the National Labor Relations Act.
During his career, he has defended independent contractor status for newspapers in 40 of the 50 states. Zinser is general counsel to seven circulation trade associations, assisted numerous press associations with newspaper industry legislation and assisted the New York News Publishers Association with legislation to make it easy to preserve independent contractor status.
In 2014, Zinser was inducted into the National Circulation Director Hall of Fame. He is the first non-circulation director recipient of this honor.
