Focus Areas
- “Supreme Court Green Lights ‘Reverse Discrimination’ Complaint,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, June 2025
- “NLRB Bans Captive-Audience Meetings,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, November 2024
- “Employers Beware: National Labor Relations Board Makes It Easier to Qualify as a Joint Employer,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, October 2023
- “NLRB Issues Historic Decision on Employer’s Duty to Recognize and Bargain With Union,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, August 2023
- “SCOTUS Clarifies Workplace Religious Accommodation Standard,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, June 2023
- “NLRB Reworks Independent Contractor Test Under NLRA,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, June 2023
- “NLRB General Counsel Issues Enforcement Memorandum Targeting Non-Competes,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, June 2023
- “Michigan Repeals Right-to-Work Law,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, March 2023
- “NLRB Issues Employer Guidance on McLaren Macomb Decision,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, March 2023
- “National Labor Relations Board Issues Decision in McLaren Macomb,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, February 2023
- “Banks and Other Financial Institutions Are the Newest Targets of Unionization Efforts,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, December 2022
- “NLRB Rules Dues Deductions Continue Even After Expiration of Collective Bargaining Agreement,” Thompson Hine Labor & Employment @lert, October 2022
- “OSHA Issues Updated COVID-19 Enforcement Plan and Guidance for Employers,” Thompson Hine COVID-19 Update, May 2020
- “Employment Law Considerations as Our Economy Begins to Reopen,” Thompson Hine COVID-19 Update, May 2020
- “How Much Leave Is Enough? Reasonable Accommodation, Undue Hardship, and the Intersection of the FMLA and the ADA,” Employee Relations Law Journal, 2014
- Contributing editor, The Developing Labor Law (Bloomberg BNA)
- Contributing editor, Personnel Law Desk Manual (Georgia Chamber of Commerce)
- “NLRB Update: Looking Back & Planning Ahead,” Thompson Hine Webinar, January 2024
- “Back to the Future: Will Biden Take Us Back to the Obama-era NLRB?” Thompson Hine Webinar, February 2021
- Listed as a Labor and Employment Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation, 2020, 2021, 2024
- The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Fellow
- Selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Labor & Employment, Georgia
- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for more than 30 years for Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management and Litigation-Labor and Employment
- Selected to the Georgia Super Lawyers list, 2004–2023
- Named to Lawdragon Corporate Employment Lawyers Hall of Fame, 2018, 2020
- Listed in “Guide to the Most Powerful Employment Lawyers,” Lawdragon and Human Resource Executive magazine, 2009–2017
- Listed in Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite, 2016
- Listed in “Top 10 Attorneys in Georgia,” Atlanta magazine, 2008–2010
Professional Activities
- Institute of Applied Management and Law, faculty member
Community Activities
- Morris Brown College Foundation, vice chair
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, past board chair
- Lekotek of Georgia, board member
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1974
- University of Alabama, B.A., 1971
Bar Admissions
- Alabama
- Georgia
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Supreme Court Green Lights “Reverse Discrimination” Complaint,
Labor & Employment @lert
, June 6, 2025 - NLRB Bans Captive-Audience Meetings,
Labor & Employment @lert
, November 15, 2024 - Employers Beware: National Labor Relations Board Makes It Easier to Qualify as a Joint Employer,
Labor & Employment @lert
, October 31, 2023 - Five Thompson Hine Lawyers Recognized by Lawdragon 2024,
Thompson Hine LLP
, October 16, 2023 - NLRB Issues Historic Decision on Employer’s Duty to Recognize and Bargain With Union,
Labor & Employment @lert
, August 28, 2023 - SCOTUS Clarifies Workplace Religious Accommodation Standard,
Labor & Employment @lert
, June 30, 2023 - NLRB Reworks Independent Contractor Test Under NLRA,
Labor & Employment @lert
, June 14, 2023 - NLRB General Counsel Issues Enforcement Memorandum Targeting Non-Competes,
Labor & Employment @lert
, June 1, 2023 - Michigan Repeals Right-to-Work Law,
Labor & Employment @lert
, March 27, 2023 - NLRB Issues Employer Guidance on McLaren Macomb Decision,
Labor & Employment @lert
, March 23, 2023