Jerry D. Redmond Lawyer-Mediator-Arbitrator

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Jerry Redmond is a seasoned peer, industry, and non-industry recognized and results focused attorney, certified mediator, and arbitrator, with extensive experience and practice area expertise, in management-side traditional labor & employment law, global immigration law, and commercial litigation, as well as a long history of providing general counsel services to businesses of various sizes, including risk management assessments, corporate and ethics compliance guidance, advice, and recommendations, to ensure businesses remain abreast of, and, compliant with, U.S. and global employment, immigration, privacy, healthcare, and banking laws that may govern their operations and/or industry. Jerry has enjoyed a successful career in private practice, characterized by roles as a partner with a leading southwest regional law firm, an Am Law 100 firm, and leading, managing, and overseeing client services for his own fully staffed multi-state corporate defense firm.

History of Successfully Representing Corporations In A variety of Matters

For over 20 years, Jerry has represented, counseled, advised, trained, and defended stakeholders, decision makers, management, labor and employee relations personnel, human resources, and employers with, and, without unionized work forces, in traditional management-side labor & employment law matters, including, but not limited to:

• Union employees’ performance, disciplines, terminations, pay, etc., grievances, labor arbitration, union avoidance campaigns, decertification proceedings, strikes, ULP proceedings before the NLRB, and good faith collective bargaining agreements—contracts negotiations with multiple international unions, including various unions under the AFL-CIO, such as SEIU, IBEW, USW, and ALPA, as well as several International and National Teamsters division locals, while providing counsel to clients in the airline, energy, oil & gas, medical, retail, education, processing, manufacturing, distribution and transportation industries;

• Investigating and defending federal and state employment-related disputes before the EEOC, DOL, OSHA, DOJ, DHS, FINRA, DFEH & DLSE etc., managing and leading the litigation of single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, collective and, class action matters, under Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, PDA, ERISA, HIPAA, FLSA, overtime, misclassification, wage and hour, worker’s compensation, various whistleblower actions, including Qui Tam, SOX, and AIR 21 actions, theft of trade secrets and trademarks, non-competes, non-solicitation and non-disclosures agreements, FEHA, TCHRA and various state law employment-related disputes;

• Counseling and advising on efficient global privacy issues and global mobility programs, handling global business, employment, expat and family immigration matters, as well as strategies for defending traditional labor & employment-related disputes under international, federal, and state law, developing forecasts, budgets, and decision-tree analysis, counseling and training stakeholders, human resources, and labor and employee relations personnel on leave management, including the interplay between FMLA and ADA, EEO, AA, USERRA, and OFCCP compliance, tactically assessing, negating, mitigating and/or managing risks, developing and implementing strategies to avoid and/or manage litigation, ensuring ethics and global compliance with applicable regulatory and statutory laws, as well as implementing impact analysis and best practices for human resources and corporations;

• Drafting, negotiating, executing, administering, analyzing, and disputing and/or defend the terms and conditions of, among other agreements/contracts, business formation, joint venture, and merger and acquisition, buy-sell, and dissolution contracts, founders, shareholder, executive compensation, severance, collective bargaining, employment, independent contractor, consulting, restrictive covenants, exclusivity, confidential, and non-disclosure agreements, management, master services, indemnity, arbitration, and waiver/release of liability agreements, OEM, intellectual property, invention, and franchisee agreements, as well as vendor, service, supply, distribution, transportation, and construction contracts;

• Managing, as lead counsel, the defense of general and complex commercial litigation actions on behalf of a variety of corporations, financial institutions, insurers, hospitals, universities, contractors, etc., in fraud, contract, shareholder, deceptive trade practices, oil & gas, environmental, insurance, malpractice, and other tort and/commercial actions, in administrative and regulatory proceedings, arbitration, trials and on appeal.