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| Practice Areas | ERISA Litigation; Employment Litigation; Labor Law; Unfair Competition; Wrongful Termination Defense; Whistleblower Litigation | | | Education | Creighton University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1987, Texas Tech University, B.A., cum laude, 1984 | | | Admitted | 1987, Nebraska and U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska; 1988, Texas; U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | State Bar of Texas; State Bar of Nebraska; Fifth Circuit Bar Association; Texas Association of Business. | | | Born | Sioux City, Iowa | | | Biography | Student Articles Editor, 1985-1986, Creighton Law Review; Board of Editors, Creighton Law Review, 1985-1987. Judicial Law Clerk to Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Thomas Shanahan, 1987-1988. Author: Editor-in-Chief, Texas Employment Law Desk Reference (4th Ed. 2006); Employment Law Commentary for the Houston Business Journal's "Business Survival Guide" (2001-2005); "Closing Your Doors on a Sixty-Day Hinge: Complying with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act," Texas Bar Journal, June 1992; "Workplace Romance: Should Employers Act as Chaperones?" 20 Employee Relations Law Journal 47, Summer 1994; "When Faith and Work Collide: Defining Standards for Religious Harassment in the Workplace," 21 Employee Relations Law Journal, Summer 1995; "Have Gun Will Carry: Concealed Handgun Laws, Workplace Violence and Employer Liability," 22 Employee Relations Law Journal, Summer 1996. Member, Exam Committee for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization Labor and Employment Law Exam Commission, 2005-2009. Exam Coordinator, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Labor and Employment Specialization Exam Committee, 2008-2009. Member, National Finance Industry Employment Law Committee. Member, Board of Directors, Houston West Chamber of Commerce. Named as a Texas Super Lawyer in Texas Monthly Magazine in Employment Litigation Defense from 2003-2009.(Board Certified, Labor and Employment Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization) | | | Reported Cases | Amos v. Wheelabrator Coal Services Co., 47 F. Supp. 2d 798 (N.D. Tex. 1999); Green v. Industrial Specialty Contractors, 1 S.W.3d 126 (Tex. App.-Houston [1st Dist.] Mar. 25, 1999); Krug v. Caltex Petroleum Corporation, No. 05-96-0079-CV, 1999 WL 652495 (Tex. App.-Dallas 1999); Patitu v. NationsBank, N.A., 90 F. Supp.2d 781 (S.D. Tex. 2000); Tiemeyer v. Quality Publishing, Inc., 144 F. Supp. 2d 727 (S.D. Tex. 2001); Burgos v. Tex. Trude, et al., 286 F. Supp. 2d 812 (S.D. Tex. 2003); Bodine v. Employers Casualty Co., et al., 352 F.3d 245 (5th Cir. 2003); Bourgeois v. The Pension Plan for the Employees of Santa Fe Int'l Corps., 308 F. Supp. 2d 761 (S.D. Tex. 2004); Costello v. Bank of America, N.A., 2007 WL 4303499 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 2007); St. John v. NCI Bldg. Systems, Inc., 537 F. Supp. 2d 848 (S.D. Tex. 2008). | | | ISLN | 904001493 | |
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Recent Case Dismissal Challenges "Geographic Presumption"Matthew T. Deffebach, Dean J. Schaner, October 16, 2009 A recent decision from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission provides employers who must log workplace injuries and report workplace fatalities some latitude as to when an injury or fatality is "work-related." Specifically, in a matter in which Haynes and Boone represented...
The ADA's Rebirth: Complying with the ADA Amendments of 2008Arthur T. Carter, Matthew T. Deffebach, Felicity A. Fowler, Melissa M. Goodman, Laura E. O'Donnell, Dean J. Schaner, William C. Strock, Jonathan C. Wilson, October 19, 2009 Based on several new amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the statute has been reborn - it offers vastly expanded coverage to a wide variety of employee physical and mental impairments and will require employers to focus on creating and offering reasonable accommodations to... |
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