Practice Areas - Employment Litigation
- Health Care Subrogation
- Title VII Discrimination
| - Employee Benefits
- ERISA
- ERISA Litigation
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 901-844-4430
Fax: 901-844-4435
http://www.lawrencerussell.com
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| University | Baylor University (B.B.A., 1988; M.P.P.A., 1989) |
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| Law School | South Texas College of Law, J.D., 1993 |
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| Admitted | 1993, Texas; 1995, Tennessee, U.S. District Courts, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, and U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third, Sixth, Eighth and Tenth Circuits; 1997, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Ninth Circuits, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas; 2000, U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 2001, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 2002, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas |
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| Memberships | State Bar of Texas; Tennessee and American (Management Co-Chair, Collective Bargaining and Employee Benefits Subcommittee, Employee Benefits Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations. |
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| Born | McAllen, Texas, July 9, 1966 |
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| Biography | Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in: Civil Trial Advocacy; Legal Research and Writing; Moot Court Competition. First Place, Fisher, Gallagher & Lewis Mock Trial Competition, Spring, 1992; First Place, Advanced Civil Litigation Mock Trial Competition, Spring, 1992; Finalist and Best Speaker, Spurgeon Bell Moot Court Competition, 1993. Lead Author: ERISA Subrogation: "Enforcing Recoupment Provisions in ERISA-Covered Health and Disability Plans," Tort and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association. Co-Author: "The "Make-Whole Rule" and Attorney Fee Reduction Doctrines: Maximizing Third-Party Recoupment Opportunities by Understanding How the Courts Have Created and Applied Different Standards." published in the Self-Insurer, June 1999. Chapter Editor: "Employee Benefits Law," American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law and BNA Books. Co-Author: "Traversing the Preemption Triangle: ERISA, the ADA, and State Disability Discrimination Laws," 12 The Lab. Lawyer 57 (1996); "Substantive and Procedural Considerations in Initiating a Recoupment Action Under Section 503(a)(3)," 34 Tort & Insurance Law Journal 969 (Summer 1999). |
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| Reported Cases | Sereboff v. Mid Atl. Med. Servs., 126 S.Ct. 1869 (2006); Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Knudson, 534 U.S. 204 (2002); BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina v. Carillo, 461 F.3d 1367 (11th Cir. 2006); Primax Recoveries, Inc. v. Gunter, 433 F.3d 515 (6th Cir. 2005); Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Berlin, 99-16180, 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 18362 (9th Cir. May 15, 2002); Bauhaus USA, Inc. v. Copeland, 292 F.3d 439 (5th Cir. 2002); GMRI, Inc. v. EEOC, 149 F.3d 449 (6th Cir. 1998); Borg-Warner Protective Servs. Corp. v. Guardsmark, Inc., 156 F.3d 1228 (6th Cir. 1998); Doyle v. Bellsouth Communs. Sys., No. 97-5122, 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 7072 (6th Cir. April 3, 1998); Nwosun v. General Mills Restaurants, Inc., 124 F.3d 1255 (10th Cir. 1998); Mut. of Omaha Ins. Co. v. Arachikavitz, 2:06-cv-00830-BES, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71172 (September 21, 2007); Infinity Ins. Cos. V. Copeland, No. 1:05-CV-64 (WLS), 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30018 (N.D. Ga. November 18, 2005); Wausau Benefits, Inc. v. Liming, 393 F. Supp. 2d 713 (W.D. Wis. 2005); BlueCross BlueShield v. Carillo, 372 F.Supp.2d 628 (N.D. Ga. 2005); State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Smith, 342 F.Supp. 2d 541 (W.D. Va. 2004); Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Hofmann, No. 01 C 2470, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9317 (N.D. Ill. May 22, 2002); Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Miller, No. 3:02-CV-0334-D, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5936 (N.D. Tex. April 8, 2002); Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Smith, 180 F. Supp.2d 1311 (M.D. Fla. 2002); Bunting Bearings Corp. v. Miller, 139 F. Supp.2d 858 (N.D. Ohio 2001); Great-West Life v. Brown, 192 F. Supp. 2d 1376 (M.D. Ga. 2002); HCA v. Clemmons, 162 F. Supp. 2d 1374 (M.D. Ga. 2001); Harris v. Patel, No. 00 C 5442, 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1911 (N.D. Ill. February 21, 2001); Parker v. Ross, 147 F. Supp. 2d 1376 (M.D. Ga. 2001); Great-West Life v. Moore, 133 F. Supp. 2d 677 (N.D. Ill. 2001); Greenwood Mills, Inc. v. Burris, 130 F. Supp. 2d 949 (M.D. Tenn. 2001); Armstrong v. Columbia/HCA, 122 F. Supp. 2d 739 (S.D., Tex. 2000); New England Emple. Benefits Group v. Klapperich, No. 00 C 4427/00 C 5114, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16545 (N.D. Ill. October 26, 2000); Scotti v. Los Robles Reg'l Ctr., 117 F. Supp.2d 982 (C.D. Cal. 2000); Miller v. Federal Express Corp., 186 F.R.D. 376 (W.D. Tenn. 1999); Great-West Life v. Clingenpeel, 996 F. Supp. 1348 (W.D. Ok. 1998); Great-West Life v. Barnhart, 19 F. Supp. 2d 584 (N.D. W. Va. 1998); McCotter v. Longo, No. 95 C 5985, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15357 (N.D. Ill. September 22, 1997); Walker v. Rose, 22 Supp. 2d 343 (D.N.J. 1996); Health and Welfare for Employees of REM, Inc. v. Ridler, 942 F. Supp. 431 (D. Minn. 1996), aff'd 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 30922 (8th Cir. 1997); Lake v. Marten, 946 F. Supp. 605 (N.D. Ill. 1996); Nunez v. Hunter Fan Co., 920 F. Supp. 716 (S.D. Tex. 1996); Health Cost Controls, Inc. v. Gifford, No. W2001-02267-SC-R11-CV, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 183 (Tenn. Ct. App. Mar. 20, 2006). |
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| ISLN | 900089143 |
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