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Areas of Emphasis
- Traditional Labor Practice, including Representation Campaigns, Union Decertifications, NLRB Hearings, Collective Bargaining, Labor Arbitrations
- Business Immigration Law
- Management Counseling and Training
- Employment Litigation (Defense)
Distinctions
- AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Labor and Employment
Education & Honors
- University of Tennessee, J.D., with honors, 1984
- Memphis State University, B.B.A., Economics, cum laude, 1981
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Associations
- American Bar Association
- Labor and Employment Section
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Louisiana Bar Association
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Memphis Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 1990
- Louisiana, 1984
- U.S. District Courts
- Tennessee: Western District
- Mississippi: Northern District
- Arkansas: Eastern and Western Districts
- Louisiana: Eastern, Middle and Western Districts
- Illinois: Central District
- U.S. Courts of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
- 7th Circuit
- 11th Circuit
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Legal Experience
- Represented employers across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean faced with union organizing, including mutli-facility organizing and corporate campaigns.
- Drafted and monitored right to organize/neutrality agreements governing union organizing in the healthcare industry.
- Directed management's response to union campaigns in which voters were predominantly Filipino, Chinese, Hispanic, African-American, or European-American, and in which campaign material was prepared in multiple languages.
- Dandridge v. Chromcraft Corp., 914 F. Supp. 1396 (N.D. Miss. 1996).
- Mississippi Employment Sec. Comm'n v. Phillips, 562 So. 2d 115 (Miss. 1990).
- Lewis Grocer Co. v. Holloway, 874 F.2d 1008 (5th Cir. 1989).
- ODECO Oil & Gas Co. v. Nunez, 532 So. 2d 453 (La. Ct. App. 1988).
- Hialeah Hospital, 343 NLRB No. 52, 2004 WL 2461358 (2004).
- Saint Vincent Hospital, LLC, 2004 WL 1629745 (N.L.R.B. July 20, 2004).
- Marquette Transportation/Bluegrass Marine, 2001 WL 1589778 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 28, 2001).
- Hialeah Hospital, 2001 WL 1603009 (N.L.R.B. Apr. 25, 2001).
- Alter Barge Lines, Inc., 2000 WL 33664304 (N.L.R.B. July 12, 2000).
- Marquette Transportation/Bluegrass Marine, 1999 WL 33454785 (N.L.R.B. June 30, 1999).
- Fleming Companies, Inc., 1998 WL 1985249 (N.L.R.B. Sept. 18, 1998).
- Brown & Root Power & Manufacturing, Inc., 1996 WL 33321329 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 13, 1996).
- Mid-South Bottling Co., 1992 WL 1465969 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 12, 1992).
- Choctaw Maid Farms, Inc., 1992 WL 1465391 (N.L.R.B. Feb. 26, 1992).
- Forrest City Grocery Co., 1991 WL 1283427 (N.L.R.B. Dec. 11, 1991).
- In re Alter Barge Lines, Inc., 336 NLRB 1266 (2001).
- In re Fleming Companies, Inc., 336 NLRB 192 (2001).
- Choctaw Maid Farms, Inc., 308 NLRB 521 (1992).
- Forrest City Grocery Co., 306 NLRB 723 (1992).
- Brown & Root, Inc. and Charleston Building and Construction Trades Council, ALF-CIO, 314 NLRB 19 (1994).
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