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Practice Areas: Employment Litigation; Labor Relations; Employment Law; Union Contract Negotiations; Wage and Hour Law.  

Additional Information: Admitted to bar, 1969, Tennessee; 1970, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee; 1972, U.S. Supreme Court; 1974, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th, 6th and 8th Circuits; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas; 1981, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; 1996, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois and U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 1997, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut. Education: University of Tennessee (B.S., 1966; J.D., 1968); Georgetown University. Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi (President, 1968). Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America (each edition) and Who's Who in American Law. Member, Western District of Tennessee Federal Court Advisory Committee, Civil Justice Reform Act, 1991- . Author: Labor Articles, "Proposals for Change in the Taft-Hartley Emergency Procedures: A Critical Appraisal," 40 Tennessee Law Review, 689. Co-Author: "Wright Line-An End to the Kaleidoscope in Dual Motive Cases?" 48 Tennessee Law Review, 879; "Re-Visiting the Tennessee Employment at Will Doctrine-What is the Exception and What is the Rule?" Vol. 19, No. 2, University of Memphis Law Review; "Employer Liability For Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Created By Supervisors: The Search For A Standard," Vol. 25, No. 2 University of Memphis Law Review; "Cain Sloan and the Employment At Will Doctrine - The Beginning of the End?" Tennessee Bar Journal, 1984. Instructor, University of Tennessee College of Law (1972-1973): Labor Relations Law (1980), Collective Bargaining (1996). Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Memphis, Fogelman College of Business. (Member, Employment Law Committee). Fellow: College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; Tennessee Bar Foundation. MEMBER: Memphis, Tennessee (Member, Labor Law Section), Federal (President, Memphis Chapter, 1990-1991) and American (Member: Equal Employment Opportunity Law Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section; Litigation Section, Employment and Labor Relations Law Committee) Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute, Inc.