Experience

• Resolved 4 putative FLSA collective actions (3 nationwide) filed in Tennessee on individual basis in 2020.
• Obtained nationwide settlement of FLSA collective action filed in Tennessee in 2020.
• Reached individual settlements for 2 multi-state FLSA collective actions filed in Alabama in 2017-2018; nationwide FLSA collective action filed in Texas in 2017; and statewide wage and hour class action filed in California in 2015.
• Won summary judgment in all 12 rulings in multi-plaintiff employment litigation in New York from 2012-2015, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirming.
• Won jury verdict in eminent domain trial in Tennessee in 2015. Jury awarded client over 20 times the amount offered by the government agency.
• Obtained non-solicitation, confidential information and 6-state non-competition injunction in Tennessee and sanctions award in 2016 for contempt of the injunction.
• Resolved 70,000 member Fair Credit Reporting Act class action in Tennessee in 2013-2015 for lower amount than parallel case against smaller employer in same industry filed by same attorneys.
• Defeated certification efforts in nationwide employment class actions filed in New York (motion to dismiss), New Jersey (motion to dismiss class compensatory and punitive damage claims granted and class claims dropped) and Tennessee (defeated motion to certify) and state/local employment class actions in Texas (motion to dismiss) and Tennessee (motion for summary judgment).
• Resolved wage and hour class allegations for favorable settlements in Tennessee, California, Massachusetts, and elsewhere for employers in the trucking, restaurant, security, photographic studio, manufacturing, and distribution industries.
• Represented employers in hundreds of labor arbitrations and NLRB charges, work stoppages, union campaigns and union avoidance efforts.

Education

• J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1995
• Order of the Coif
• B.A., cum laude, Duke University, 1991

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