Distinctions · AV-rated, Martindale-Hubbell · Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Labor and Employment Associations · American Bar Association
- Labor and Employment Section · American Immigration Lawyers Association · Louisiana Bar Association · Tennessee Bar Association · Memphis Bar Association 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. · Negotiated collective bargaining agreements for employers in healthcare, forestry/wood products, and other industries. · Chickasaw Nation Industries, NLRB Case No. 5-CA-060999 (2011) (successfully defended successor employer's withdrawal of recognition from union). · Weyerhaeuser Company, NLRB Case No. 19-RC-15275 (2010) (represented employer in union organizing campaign; union withdrew petition prior to election). · Alliant Techsystems, Inc. and United Steelworkers Local 8-593 (2006) (successfully defended employer's changes to benefits during contract term). · Hialeah Hospital, 343 NLRB No. 52, 2004 WL 2461358 (2004) (reversed Administrative Law Judge's Decision imposing bargaining order on employer). · Saint Vincent Hospital, LLC, 2004 WL 1629745 (N.L.R.B. July 20, 2004) (represented employer in hearing on challenged ballots and objections to election). · Marquette Transportation/Bluegrass Marine, 2001 WL 1589778 (N.L.R.B. Aug. 28, 2001) (successfully represented employer in case finding barge pilots to be supervisors and upholding termination for engaging in strike). · Alter Barge Lines, Inc., 2000 WL 33664304 (N.L.R.B. July 12, 2000) (successfully represented employer in case finding barge pilots to be supervisors and upholding termination for engaging in strike). · Fleming Companies, Inc., 1998 WL 1985249 (N.L.R.B. Sept. 18, 1998) (successfully defended employer regarding allegations of discrimination). · In re Alter Barge Lines, Inc., 336 NLRB 1266 (2001) (affirmed Administrative Law Judge's Decision that barge pilots are supervisors and dismissing complaint alleging employer unlawfully discharged pilots for engaging in strike). · Brown & Root, Inc. and Charleston Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, 314 NLRB 19 (1994) (represented employer in hearing on unit determinations for multi-site election). · Lewis Grocer Co. v. Holloway, 874 F.2d 1008 (5th Cir. 1989) (defended employer in claims of discrimination under Surface Transportation Assistance Act). |