Albert G. Kroll is the Founder and Managing Partner of KHPP. Mr. Kroll has extensive experience in representing labor and employee benefit clients in the building construction trades, transportation service and health care industries. He serves as General Counsel to the New Jersey State AFL-CIO. 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 during which time he was twice awarded Region 22′s Sustained Superior Performance Award. He is rated Preeminent “AV” by Martindale- Hubbell, the leader in professional excellence and ethics, and has been selected repeatedly 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 Mr. Kroll’s tenure,New Jersey became the only state to enact legislation authorizing project labor agreements. In December of 2005, Governor-Elect John Corzine selected him to serve as Chairperson of the Labor and Workforce Development Transition Team.