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Francis J. Raucci (Helena)
Mr. Raucci, an Of Counsel partner with the firm, continues a legal career that spans over 35 years. Most recently “Hank” was Executive Vice President and Chief Labor Counsel for American Stores, the largest food and drug retailer in the United States and one of the top ten private employers, with over 120,000 unionized employees.
Throughout his 30 years with that company, Mr. Raucci was Counsel for its largest operating companies in the Northeast, West Coast and Intermountain regions, including over 15 years with Buttrey Food and Drug in Great Falls, Montana. In 1993 he assumed overall responsibility as Executive Vice President for the labor and employment functions throughout the country. He has participated in the negotiation of over 500 labor agreements with the Teamsters, UFCW and Bakery Workers unions and has handled scores of arbitrations. He has supervised over 200 employment-related litigated cases, including what was the largest sex and race discrimination case in the retail industry. He has served as trustee on several Taft-Hartley pension and health and welfare trusts with combined assets in excess of 5 billion dollars. Mr. Raucci is a member of the Montana Bar as well as the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia Bars, and is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit and Third Circuit Courts of Appeal. He has served on the faculties of the University of Montana, University of Great Falls, Saint Joseph’s University, California State and Temple University School of Law. He is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Joseph’s University, President’s Club of Carroll College and Chair of the Law-Alumni of Saint Joseph's University. He has written and lectured extensively on labor and employment issues in the public and private sector. Hank is a Charter Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers - an association of preeminent practitioners in that field. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Court Appointed Masters. There are currently 83 Fellows in the United States serving as Rule 53 Masters in the Federal Court systems. Mr. Raucci is the only Fellow in Montana. He regularly serves as a mediator and arbitrator. In that connection, he is a panel member of the Association of Attorney-Mediators, the National Employment Mediation Service, and National Panels with Labor, Employment and Contracts of the American Arbitration Association and National Panel of FINRA Arbitrators. Hank continues to be active in civic and community affairs. He is a former Chair of the Montana Board of Personnel Appeals, Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, and Great Falls Library Board, as well as a trustee of the Ronald McDonald House Charities.
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