Brentwood
Employment Lawyers
Compare 117 top rated Tennessee attorneys serving Brentwood.
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Jake VanAusdall
Brentwood, TN Employment Law Attorney with 3 years experience
Offers Video ChatEmployment, Business, Construction and IP
Tulane University
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John Leebron
Brentwood, TN Employment Law Attorney with 20 years experience
Employment, Business and Family
Employment, Business and Real Estate
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2300 21st Ave. South, Suite 201
Nashville,
TN 37212
Employment and Immigration
Vanderbilt University Law School
Bruce E. Buchanan is a founding partner at Sebelist Buchanan Law PLLC with offices in Nashville and Atlanta, where he represents employers and individuals in immigration law, with a special emphasis on employer immigration compliance, and employers in employment/labor law matters. Additionally, he is Of Counsel to Siskind Susser concerning employer immigration compliance matters.
Mr. Buchanan received his law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1982. He served as senior trial specialist for the NLRB for 20 years. Mr. Buchanan also served for 12 years as Adjunct Professor at William H. Bowen UALR School of Law. He...
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University of Notre Dame
Tom Shumate is the founder of Meridian Law, PLLC, which represents individuals and businesses across Tennessee in a variety of civil matters including business, contract, and employment litigation; disputes involving non-competition agreements and theft of trade secrets; insurance defense; personal injury and wrongful death actions; and probate cases. Mr. Shumate graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University in 1995 and from Notre Dame Law School in 1998. He has practiced in Nashville, Tennessee since that time. In 2011 and 2013, Mr. Shumate was selected as a “Rising Star” by the Mid-South edition of Super Lawyers Magazine. He...
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South Texas College of Law
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Morgan E Smith
Nashville, TN Employment Law Attorney with 12 years experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
Vanderbilt University Law School
I am a Vanderbilt educated lawyer living in Nashville, Tennessee, and primarily practicing in the areas of Family and Employment Law (Plaintiff's side). I have been involved in litigation since 2007, with experience in complex litigation in federal courts. When I am not working, you can find me at a Preds game or watching the University of Louisville and Vanderbilt on tv.
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University of Tennessee College of Law and DePaul College of Law
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Employment, Elder, Medical Malpractice and Workers' Comp
University of Memphis
Mr. Higgins is a Nashville native. He attended the University of Tennessee where he graduated with honors and returned to home to work with a large insurance defense law firm. About 17 years ago Mr. Higgins left the defense practice and created a firm that only represents injured victims and their families. To better serve his clients the firm is broken down into specific litigation groups, such as the nursing home neglect division and serious injury division.
Mr. Higgins is a member of the million dollar advocates forum, recognized by Best Lawyers and is a board...
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Employment, Estate Planning, Personal Injury and Probate
University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
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Employment and Arbitration & Mediation
Columbia Law School
With more than fifteen years' experience as a labor and employment attorney, I have a pragmatic business acumen developed through strategic partnership with clients, both as an outside counsel and in-house counsel at a Fortune 500 manufacturing and automotive services company. In addition to providing general employment advice and counsel to clients, I also have spearheaded employment compliance projects to ensure company policies and platforms match employment laws across all fifty states. I also have significant experience representing employers in claims brought through alternative dispute resolution programs. As such, I recognize the importance to both sides of getting...
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Robb C. Bigelow
Nashville, TN Employment Law Lawyer with 18 years experience
Employment and Civil Rights
Vanderbilt University Law School
Robb Bigelow is a trial lawyer with over 15 years of experience in the legal community. Bigelow began his career working for the Honorable Juliet Griffin in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. After gaining three years of invaluable insight into the judicial process, Bigelow began working as an employment lawyer at Stewart, Estes & Donnell. When that firm merged with Dickinson Wright PLLC, Bigelow continued his employment practice, ultimately becoming a partner in the firm. In 2015, Bigelow left Dickinson Wright to form his own firm. Since 2015, Bigeow has focused on workers rights...
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Nanette Gould
Franklin, TN Employment Law Attorney with 12 years experience
Nanette is an attorney with ten years of experience practicing civil rights law in the Nashville area. Having represented students, employees, and employers, Nanette is well acquainted with both sides of virtually all Title IX and employer/employee disputes.
Students accused of Title IX violations on today’s colleges and universities are afforded few, if any, rights. Students who do the accusing are almost always presumed to be telling the truth, but there are some false accusations. If your son, or daughter, is accused of sexual harassment or worse, he needs to know that the very first thing he should do is call...
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Employment, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
If you’re looking for distinction among attorneys in Franklin, TN, and surrounding areas, you’ll find it in John D. Schwalb, PLLC. Recognized as a Mid-South Super Lawyer by the Law and Politics Magazine, John D. Schwalb ranks among the top five percent of lawyers. His firm received and maintains an AV®-rating for providing exceptional legal services. After 30 years of experience in all aspects of the law, John D. Schwalb, PLLC, is qualified to supply superior legal knowledge and litigation skills to all in the Franklin, TN, area. We are prepared to assist you with family law cases, bullying...
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Employment, Education and Insurance Claims
Michael L. Russell is an employee rights lawyer and a mediator. He represents victims of employment discrimination, workplace harassment, and wage and hour violations.
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3200 West End Ave.
Suite 500
Nashville,
TN 37203
Employment
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Employment, Business and Consumer
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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(615) 726-5767
Commerce Center, Suite 1000
211 Commerce Street
Nashville ,
TN 37201
Employment and Business
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Charles K. Grant's experience includes defending clients in complex employment litigation, including class actions and collective actions (wage and hour litigation); litigation concerning claims under Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); wrongful discharge; sexual, racial, age, national-origin, disability, and religious discrimination and harassment under state and federal laws; Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA); retaliatory discharge; defamation; intentional infliction of emotional distress, tortious interference with contract; employment and non-compete agreements; protection of trade secrets; drug-testing; conspiracy; reductions in force; and the Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification Act (WARN).
His clients also include licensed professionals such as lawyers, physicians and dentists, whom...
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Fred R Denson
Mount Juliet, TN Employment Law Lawyer with 26 years experience
Employment, Elder, Estate Planning and Social Security Disability
Nashville School of Law
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Employment
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
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Employment, Bankruptcy and Consumer
Emory University School of Law
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Free ConsultationEmployment, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
Mississippi College School of Law
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Employment, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Nashville School of Law and Middle Tennessee State University
Maralee Downey
Brentwood, TN Employment Law Lawyer with 13 years experience
Employment, Bankruptcy, Business and IP
Baylor Law School
Charles Cain
Franklin, TN Employment Law Attorney with 14 years experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Bankruptcy, Business and Foreclosure Defense
Nashville School of Law
Nashville, TN Employment Law Lawyer with 13 years experience
Employment
Emory University School of Law
Employment, Antitrust, Business and IP
Employment, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Environmental
South Texas College of Law
Employment, Administrative, Business and Construction
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law - Texas Wesleyan University
(615) 601-1276
2002 Richard Jones Rd. , Suite B-200
Nashville ,
TN 37215
Employment
Employment
Vanderbilt University Law School
(615) 252-2357
1600 Division St
Nashville-Davidson (Balance),
TN 37203
Employment
Employment and Civil Rights
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Workers' Comp
2501 Park Plaza, B1-LLW
Nashville,
TN 37203
Employment and Health Care
SMU Dedman School of Law
Employment, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Employment
Univ of Tennessee COL
Brentwood Employment Legal Aid & Pro Bono Services
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee
(615) 244-6610
Nashville, TN
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Problems in the workplace?
Employment law governs the relationship between workers and their employers. This law, contained in federal and state statutes, administrative regulations, and judicial decisions, specifies the rights and restrictions applicable to each party in the workplace.
This area of law regulates such issues as employee benefits, discipline, hiring, firing, leave, payroll, and health and safety in the workplace. It also encompasses non-compete agreements, retaliation, severance, unemployment compensation, pensions, whistle-blowing, worker classification, wage garnishment, work authorization for non-U.S. citizens, worker's compensation, and employee handbooks.
Both federal and state laws govern the relationship between employees and employers. Federal laws such as Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibit employers from discriminating against employees based on certain characteristics. Many states have enacted their own laws similar to federal ones (and sometimes are more stringent). Cities and counties also can enact ordinances that affect employee rights, such as local minimum wage laws.
Employment lawyers can choose to accept only employees as clients, only employers, or both. Some attorneys focus on a specific area of employment law, such as workers' compensation, whistleblowing or discrimination, but many can handle a wide range of employment law issues.
Essential job functions:
The fundamental job duties of the employment position that the individual with a disability holds or desires. The term essential functions does not include marginal functions of the position.
Exempt employee:
An employee who is not entitled to the minimum wage or overtime pay protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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