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, American Bar Foundation · Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation Associations · American Bar Association
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- Labor and Employment Section · Mississippi Bar 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 · "Labor Relations Section," Human Resources Management in the Healthcare Setting (American Hospital Association). · "Commonsense Strategies in an Age of Uncertainty," Law360, October 2010. |