David P. Jaqua

Practice Group Leader
Labor and Employment Group

Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry Group

Memphis Office
Tel: (901) 680-7343
E-mail: david.jaqua@butlersnow.com

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Areas of Emphasis

• Employment Litigation (Defense)
• Arbitration and Mediation
• Traditional Labor Practice, including Representation Campaigns, NLRB hearings, and Labor Arbitration
• Management Counseling and Training

Distinctions

• AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• The Best Lawyers in America®, Labor and Employment Law
• Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Labor and Employment
• Mid-South Super Lawyers®, Employment and Labor
• Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation

Education & Honors

• University of Mississippi, J.D., with honors, 1976
• Board of Editors, Mississippi Law Journal
• United States Naval Academy, B.S., Mathematics, 1973

Associations

• American Bar Association
• Labor and Employment Section
• Tennessee Bar Association
• Labor and Employment Section
• Mississippi Bar

Bar Admissions

• Mississippi, 1977
• Tennessee, 1977
• U.S. District Court
• Tennessee: Eastern, Middle and Western Districts
• Mississippi: Northern and Southern Districts
• Arkansas: Eastern and Western Districts
• Texas: Northern and Western Districts
• Illinois: Southern District
• U.S. Courts of Appeals
• 5th Circuit
• 6th Circuit
• 8th Circuit
• 9th Circuit
• 11th Circuit
• District of Columbia Circuit
• U. S. Supreme Court

Legal Experience

• Over 250 federal and state court cases and contested agency hearings.
• Lead counsel in more than 55 jury trials tried to verdicts in 16 states.
• Appellate experience in six United States Courts of Appeals and nine state appellate courts.
• Created the country’s first company-wide Fair Treatment Process and Mandatory Arbitration Program for a major national healthcare corporation employing more than 110,000 employees and led the successful defense of the program in key cases decided by five federal courts of appeals.
• Arbitrated 80+ cases arising under collective-bargaining agreements and dispute resolution policies.
• Hollins v. Methodist Healthcare, Inc., 474 F.3d 223, 18 A.D. Cases 1510 (6th Cir. 2007).
• Ortiz v. Winona Mem'l Hosp., 2003 WL 21696524 (S.D. Ind., June 4, 2003).
• Virts v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. of Del., 285 F.3d 508 (6th Cir. 2002).
• Hardin v. Caterpillar, Inc., 227 F.3d 268 (5th Cir. 2000).
• Covey v. Methodist Hosp. of Dyersburg, Inc., 56 F. Supp. 2d 965 (W.D. Tenn. 1999).
• Rosamond v. Pennaco Hosiery, Inc., 942 F. Supp. 279 (N.D. Miss. 1996).
• Ogunsalu v. Davenport, 1994 WL 397303 (Tenn. Ct. App. Aug. 2, 1994).
• General Drivers, Salesmen & Warehousemen's Local Union No. 984 v. Malone & Hyde, Inc., 23 F.3d 1039 (6th Cir. 1994).
• Hammontree v. National Labor Relations Bd., 925 F.2d 1486 (D.C. Cir. 1991)(en banc).
• Kozam v. Emerson Elec. Co., 739 F. Supp. 307 (N.D. Miss. 1990).
• Woods v. Helmi, 758 S.W.2d 219 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1988).
• Wilmoth v. Durfey, 1988 WL 136391 (Tenn. Ct. App. Dec. 21, 1988).
• Taff v. Media Gen. Broadcast Servs., Inc., 1986 WL 12240 (Tenn. Ct. App., Nov. 3, 1986).
• United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1529, AFL-CIO, CLC v. Chambers Big Star #52, Inc., 1986 WL 311, 124 L.R.R.M. 2120 (W.D. Tenn. 1986).
• Bringle v. Methodist Hosp., 701 S.W.2d 622 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1985).
• Sones-Morgan v. Hertz Corp., 725 F.2d 1070, (6th Cir. 1984).
• National Labor Relations Bd. v. Consolidated Freightways Corp. of Del., 651 F.2d 436 (6th Cir. 1981).
• Equal Employment Opportunity Comm'n v. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 84 F.R.D. 337, (W.D. Tenn. 1979).
• Wimberly v. American Cas. Co. of Reading, Pa., 584 S.W.2d 200 (Tenn. 1979).
• Shelby County Health Care Corp., 343 NLRB No. 48, 2004 WL 2461368 (2004).
• Shelby County Health Care Corp., 2004 WL 724949 (N.L.R.B. March 31, 2004).
• South Fulton Med. Ctr., 2003 WL 22123263 (N.L.R.B. Sept. 10, 2003).
• Pepsi America, Inc., 339 NLRB No. 125, 2003 WL 21959750 (2003).
• Pepsi America, Inc., 2001 WL 1589770 (N.L.R.B. Oct. 1, 2001).
• Mid-South Bottling Co., 1992 WL 1465969 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 12, 1992).
• FMC Corp., 1991 WL 1283418 (N.L.R.B. Dec. 4, 1991).
• Fleming Companies, Inc., 332 NLRB No. 99, 2000 WL 1675502 (2000).
• Consolidated Freightways Corp. of Del., 288 NLRB 1252 (1988).

Papers, Presentations, & Publications

• Author, Labor Relations Section, Human Resources Management in the Healthcare Setting (American Hospital Association)