| Biography | Waverly Crenshaw is a partner at Waller Lansden and serves on the firm's Board of Directors and Diversity Committee. With over 25 years of experience, he concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment and all employer/employee-related issues as well as government regulatory issues. Mr. Crenshaw provides day-to-day advice to management on all aspects of employment and labor law. His primary concentration lies in the areas of federal employment litigation, including complex, multi-plaintiff discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases. He is currently defending a hiring and promotion class action. In recently litigated matters, Mr. Crenshaw successfully defended a 92 plaintiff race discrimination action; a race-based class action challenging hiring practices; a multi-plaintiff racial harassment, discrimination and retaliation lawsuit through jury trial; successfully defended a diabetes protocol in response to a challenge under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); successfully defended against 301 Labor Management Relations Act actions at trial and on appeal; and obtained defense judgment in cases filed under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Mr. Crenshaw was the first African-American attorney and partner at Waller Lansden and has been a partner in a majority law firm longer than any other African-American attorney in Nashville. For his work in labor and employment law, he has been recognized in America's Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers & Partners) since 2004 as well as the Nashville Business Journal's "Best of the Bar," "Best 101 Lawyers" by Business Tennessee, and Mid-South and Tennessee Super Lawyers. Clerkships and Previous Affiliations: Assistant Attorney General, State of Tennessee, 1984-1986; Law Clerk, United States District Judge John T. Nixon, 1982-1984; Law Clerk, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Chancellors, 1981-1982. Professional Activities: Named one of the "Best 101 Lawyers" in Tennessee by Business Tennessee; Recognized and listed in the current edition, America's Leading Lawyers for Business (Chambers & Partners); Recognized in the Nashville Business Journal's 2005 and 2008 "Best of the Bar" ; Fellow, Nashville and Tennessee Bar Foundations; Life Member, Conference of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the United States; Chair, Labor & Employment Section, Tennessee Bar Association, 2005; Former Chair, Merit Selection Panel, U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee, 1998; Former Chair, Tennessee Supreme Court's Advisory Committee, Board of Professional Responsibility, 2003-2004; Member, Board of Trustees, Napier-Looby Bar Foundation; Former President, Napier-Looby Bar Association, Chapter of National Bar Association; Former Secretary, Treasurer and Director, Nashville Bar Association; Charter Member and Legal Counsel, Harry Phillips American Inn of Courts; Former Hearing Committee Member, Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee; Former Member, Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; Frequent lecturer throughout the Middle Tennessee area on various employment law issues. Civic and Other Activities: Board Member, Tennessee Performing Arts Center; Member, Leadership Nashville 2009; Board Member, Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee, Inc.; Member, by mayoral appointment, to the Metropolitan Nashville Hospital Authority Board of Trustees; Elected Board Chair November 2008; Member, Governor's Advisory Committee on Equal and Fair Employment Opportunity; Board Member, You Have the Power, Inc.; Board Member, Nashville Bar Pro Bono Board; Board Member, Community Nashville, Inc.; Board Member and Executive Committee Member, Middle Tennessee Workforce Development Board; Member and Legal Counsel, 100 Black Men of Middle Tennessee, Inc.; Legal Counsel, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, 1996. Articles: 7/10/2008, Waller Lansden News: Ten Waller Lansden Attorneys Recognized as "Best of the Bar" by Nashville Business Journal; 3/14/2008, Waller Lansden News: Eighteen Waller Lansden Attorneys Recognized as "Leaders in their Field" in the 2008 edition of Chambers USA; 7/18/2007, Thirteen Waller Lansden Attorneys Ranked as "Leaders in Their Field" by Chambers USA; 2/3/2005, Time is Money: The Wage & Hour Monthly February 2005 Edition. |