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| | Address | 3725 Champion Hills Drive
Suite 3000 | | Memphis, Tennessee 38125 | | (Shelby Co.) | | | |
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(Main Office)
| Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Prather, PLC practices in the following areas of law:
Labor Relations and Employment Law. | | Year Established: 1996 | Firm Profile:
Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Prather, PLC has an extensive nationwide practice limited exclusively to the representation of management clients in all areas of labor relations and employment law. | | Firm Size: 19 |
Other Office Locations of Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Prather, PLC
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
| | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | Sylvia R. Adams (Member) born Taunton, Massachusetts, May 21, 1970; admitted to bar, 1998, Tennessee; 1999, Mississippi; 2000, Massachusetts; 2001, New Hampshire. Education: Atlantic Union College (B.A., cum laude, 1992); University of Minnesota (J.D., cum laude, 1998). Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Sylvia R. Adams | | Howard L. Cleveland IV (Member) born Memphis, Tennessee, May 15, 1970; admitted to bar, 1995, Tennessee. Education: Rhodes College (B.A., 1992); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (J.D., cum laude, 1995). Phi Kappa Phi. Executive Editor, Tennessee Law Review, 1994-1995. Member, Moot Court Board, 1994-1995. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Awards in Pretrial Litigation; Legal Clinic (Civil Litigation); Legal Clinic (Criminal Defense). Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; American Immigration Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Business Immigration; Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Howard L. Cleveland IV | | Craig A. Cowart (Member) born Pascagoula, Mississippi; admitted to bar, 1995, Tennessee and Mississippi; 1996, Alabama and U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Middle Districts of Alabama; 1997, Louisiana and U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi; U.S. District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Tennessee. Education: University of Mississippi (B.B.A., 1991); University of Memphis (J.D., with honors, 1995). Phi Kappa Phi. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards: Civil Procedure; Corporation Law. Associate Counsel, Buckman Laboratories International, Inc., 2000-2001. Member: Tennessee and Louisiana State Bar Associations; The Mississippi Bar; Alabama State Bar. Practice Areas: Employment Defense; Employment Litigation; Sexual Harassment; Wrongful Termination Defense; Title VII Discrimination. | | Steven Hymowitz (Member) born New York, N.Y., April 4, 1944; admitted to bar, 1974, Tennessee; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1979, Louisiana. Education: Fordham University (B.S., Pharmacy, 1965); University of Memphis (J.D., 1974). Phi Delta Phi; Rho Chi. Member of Staff, Memphis State Law Review, 1972-1974. Associate Editor, Memphis State Law Review, 1973-1974. Editor and Contributing Author: "Employment at Will," A State by State Survey. Member: Tennessee, Louisiana State and American (Management Co-Chairman, Committee on Employee Rights and Responsibilities, Section of Labor and Employment Law, 1993-1996; Program Subcommittee Chairman, Committee on Employee Rights and Responsibilities, Section of Labor and Employment Law, 1985-1990; Privacy Subcommittee Chairman, Committee on Employee Rights and Responsibilities, Section of Labor and Employment Law, 1990-1993; Member, Committee on Employment and Labor Relations Law, Litigation Section, 1981—) Bar Associations. Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Wrongful Termination Defense; Discrimination and Civil Rights; ERISA; Litigation. Email: Steven Hymowitz | | Jonathan E. Kaplan (Member) born Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 14, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Tennessee. Education: Columbia University; Rhodes College (B.A., cum laude, 1979); University of Memphis (J.D., 1982). Research Editor, University of Memphis Law Review, 1981-1982. Editor-in-Chief, Tennessee Labor Letter, 1992-2001. Author: "How to Take a Case Before the NLRB," Chapter 2, 7th Ed. BNA, 2000. Member, Board of Directors, United Way of the Mid South. Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Section), Tennessee (Chair, Labor and Employment Law Section, 1998-2000) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section, Practice and Procedure Under the NLRA Committee, Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee, Management Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Drug & Alcohol Abuse in the Workplace, 1995-1996) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Jonathan E. Kaplan | | Jay W. Kiesewetter (Member) born St. Louis, Missouri, March 14, 1946; admitted to bar, 1974, Missouri; 1977, Tennessee. Education: University of Missouri (A.B., 1967); University of Southern California (M.A., 1971); St. Louis University (J.D., cum laude, 1974). Phi Delta Phi. Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Region 14, 1974-1977. Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section, Committees on the Development of the Law under the NLRA, Practice and Procedure under the NLRB, and Equal Employment Opportunity Law) Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar (Member, Labor Law Section). [U.S. Air Force, 1968-1971]. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Jay W. Kiesewetter | | Lisa Lichterman Leach (Member) born Memphis, Tennessee, January 6, 1965; admitted to bar, 1990, Tennessee. Education: Southern Methodist University; Rhodes College (B.A., 1987); Columbia University; Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1990). Selected University Scholar, Southern Methodist University, 1983-1985. Member, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1988-1989. Executive Editor, Tennessee Labor Letter, 1993-1998. Visiting Law Student, Columbia University, 1989-1990. Law Clerk to Hon. Odell Horton, Chief Judge, United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee, 1991-1992. Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Lisa Lichterman Leach | | Steven W. Likens (Member) born Spartanburg, South Carolina, August 17, 1963; admitted to bar, 1988, Tennessee; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Mississippi; U.S. District Court, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court; 2001, Mississippi. Education: University of Memphis (B.B.A., summa cum laude, 1985; J.D., 1988). Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Recipient: Herbert Berff Law Scholarship; American Jurisprudence Award in Federal Courts, Business Planning, Conflicts of Law, Antitrust. Managing Editor, Memphis State University Law Review. Judicial Clerk to Hon. Hewitt D. Tomlin, Jr., Presiding Judge, Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section, 1988-1989. Author, "The Per Se Sword No Longer Reigns Supreme Over the Boycott Battlefield, 17 St. L. Rev 279 1987. Previously Senior Counsel, Labor Relations Federal Express Corporation. Chief Justice, Student Government Association. Member: Memphis, Tennessee and Federal Bar Associations; The Mississippi Bar. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment. Email: Steven W. Likens | | George W. Loveland, II (Member) born Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1949; admitted to bar, 1976, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1979, Tennessee and U.S. District Court, District of Arkansas; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1982, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: University of Notre Dame (A.B., magna cum laude, Economics, 1971); Duquesne University (J.D., cum laude, 1976). Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure. Member, Trial Moot Court Board. Previously, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1976-1979. Member: Memphis (Member, Law and Employment Law Section), Allegheny County, Tennessee and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law and Business Law Sections) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: George W. Loveland, II | | Mark N. Mallery (Member) born Vicksburg, Mississippi, September 13, 1961; admitted to bar, 1986, Louisiana. Education: Mississippi State University (B.B.A., 1983); University of Mississippi (J.D., 1986). Phi Delta Phi. Member, Mississippi Law Journal, 1984-1986. Editor-In-Chief, Employment Termination: Rights and Remedies (BNA and ABA, 2003 Cum. Supp.). Contributing Editor: "Covenants Not To Compete, A State by State Survey" (1990-1991 Supplement and 1990-1992 Cumulative Supplement); "Employee Duty of Loyalty: A State-by-State Survey," American Bar Association, 1995; "Employee Rights and Responsibilities," 10 The Labor Lawyer 588, 1994. Author: "Supreme Court Review—Administrative Law," 55 Miss. L. Journal 735, 1985; "Privacy Concerns of Mental Illness," Balanced Health Report, June, 1995; "Legal Issues Arising in Connection with Workplace Investigations," Conducting Workplace Investigations, ABA Video Law Seminar, 1995. Co-Author: "Ethical Considerations in the Joint Representation of Supervisors and Employers in Sexual Harassment Cases," 5 The Labor Lawyer 115, 1989; "Recent Developments in Labor Relations and Employment Law," Louisiana State Bar Association's Manual of Recent Developments In The Law, 1988-1990; "Report on the Growing Tension Between the First Amendment and Harassment Law," 12 The Labor Lawyer 475, 1997; "Employee Privacy Issues Relating to Medical Information," HR Advisor: Legal & Practical Guidances, Vol. 1:6,35, May/June, 1996; "Resolution of Labor Employment Disputes - The Choice of Process in the 1990's and Beyond," Twelfth Annual Carl A. Warns, Jr., Labor and Employment Law Institute (Rothman 1999); "Remedies for Employer Negligence," Chapter 7 Negligence in Employment Law (BNA 2002); "Radical SOX Burden and Remedy Become Reality," Impact Lawbrief (La. Hosp. Assn., Baton Rouge, La.), Feb. 27, 2004, at 3; Attorney's Guide to Drugs in the Workplace (ABA 1996). Member: Louisiana State Bar Association (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American Bar Association (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section; Program Chair, Committee on Employment Rights and Responsibilities; Management Co-Chair of the Marketing Committee's Membership Subcommittee; Chair, Employment Rights and Responsibilities Basics Seminar, 2003; Chair, Employment Litigation Skills Training Seminar, 2002; Member, Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee; Marketing and Diversity Liaison, Administrative Chair, 2003-2004; Management Advisory Council, 2001—; Membership Chair, 2000-2002 and Chair, Subcommittee on Employment Privacy and Collateral Torts, 1994-2000; Served on the Labor and Employment Law Section's Marketing Committee as Management Co-Chair of the Membership Subcommittee); Member, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (Employee Relations Council). Reported Cases: Felder v. Winn-Dixie, 9 W.H. Cases 2d 585 (E.D. La. 2003) (dismissing FMLA claims); US GreenFiber v. Brooks, 12 ILR (P&F) 749, 2002 ULRWeb (P&F) 2803, 2002 WL 31834009 (granting employer's request for injunction against terminated quality control manager); Ware v. Cooper Cameron, 88 FEP Cases (BNA) 1496 (W.D. La. 2002) (dismissing terminated employee's race discrimination claims); Bailey v. CIGNA, 28 EBC 2856 (W.D. La. 2002), aff'd, 87 Fed.Appx. 347, 32 EBC 1720 (5th Cir. 2004) (dismissing ERISA claims); Whitten v. State Farm, 19 IER Cases (BNA) 240 (W.D. La. 2002) (dismissing retaliation and intentional infliction claims); Winters v. Cooper Lighting, 7 Wage & Hour Cases 2d (BNA) 639 (S.D. Miss. 2001) (dismissing terminated employee's punitive damages and infliction of emotional distress claims); Harris v. State Farm, 178 F.Supp.2d 680 (2001), cert. den. 537 U.S. 913 (2002), and 17 IER Cases (BNA) 222 (W.D. La. 2000) (dismissing employee's discriminatory failure-to-promote and defamation claims); Local 100, Serv. Employees Int'l Union, AFL-CIO, et al. v. Integrated Health Servs., 96 F.Supp.2d 537 (M.D. La. 2000) (dismissing Union's and employee's Family and Medical Leave Act claims); Henson v. Bassett Furniture, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14877 (E.D. La.) (dismissing intentional interference with contractual relations and infliction of emotional distress claims filed by terminated sales manager); Bahan v. Louisiana Chapter, 9 AD Cases (BNA) 116 (E.D. La. 1998) (dismissing terminated executive director's claims of defamation, infliction of emotional distress and interference with contractual relations); Gluck v. Casino America, 20 F.Supp.2d 991 (W.D. La. 1998) (dismissing terminated manager's tort and compensatory damage claims); Rimcor v. Bricklayers, 159 LRRM 2250 (W.D. La. 1998) (upholding employer's right to file suit against Union to void collective bargaining agreement as violative of Louisiana's Right-to-Work law); Stone v. Starnes, 13 IER Cases (BNA) 766 (1997) (dismissing terminated store manager's state law claims of wrongful termination and workers' compensation retaliation); Blouin v. Kaiser Alum. & Chem. Corp., 5AD Cases (BNA) 546 (E.D. La. 1996), aff'd 103 F.3d 127 (5th Cir. 1996), cert. den. 117 S.Ct. 1554 (1997) (dismissal of Americans with Disabilities Act claim); and Wyatt v. Pride Offshore, Inc., 3 W. & H. Cas. 2d (BNA) 892 (E.D. La. 1996) (dismissing and striking employee's class action allegations in Fair Labor Standards Act suit). Practice Areas: Employment Litigation; Management Labor Law. | | Robert David Meyers (Member) born La Chapelle, France, June 12, 1956; admitted to bar, 1986, Tennessee and U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court; 1994, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 2000, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee; 2004, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas; 2005, Arkansas. Education: University of Tennessee at Martin (B.S., 1979); University of Tennessee at Memphis (B.S.N., 1981); University of Tennessee at Knoxville (J.D., 1986). Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute (Employment Law Committee). (Certified, Civil Trial Specialist, Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization); (Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy). Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Workers Compensation; Litigation. Email: Robert David Meyers | | Paul E. Prather (Member) born Baldwyn, Mississippi, November 29, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Tennessee. Education: Freed-Hardeman College (A.A., 1976); University of Memphis (B.A., summa cum laude, 1979; J.D., 1982). Recipient, Herff Presidential Scholarship, 1981-1982. Editor-in-Chief, Memphis Law Review, 1981-1982. Adjunct Professor, University of Memphis School of Law, 1983-1985, 1989-1993. Law Clerk to Chief Judge Robert M. McRae, Jr., U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee, 1982-1983. Member, Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization, 2002. Member: Memphis (Chair, Labor and Employment Law Section, 2002), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Section) and American (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment Law; Litigation) Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute; Management Labor and Employment Roundtable. Reported Cases: Sullivan v. Baptist Memorial Hospital, 995 S.W.2d 569 (Tenn. 1999). Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Paul E. Prather | | John W. Simmons (Member) born New Orleans, Louisiana, September 6, 1961; admitted to bar, 1986, Tennessee; 1988, Mississippi. Education: Mississippi State University (B.B.A., 1983); University of Mississippi (J.D., cum laude, 1986). Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi. Member, Mississippi Law Journal, 1985-1986. Editorial Review Board, The Mississippi Labor Letter, 1995-2000. Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section; Co-Chairman, Employment Law Committee, International Law and Practice Section, 2001) Bar Associations; The Mississippi Bar. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: John W. Simmons | | Tanja Lueck Thompson (Member) born Passaic, New Jersey, October 22, 1970; admitted to bar, 1997, Tennessee, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth and Seventh Circuits. Education: Rhodes College (B.A., 1993); University of Memphis (J.D., 1997). Phi Delta Phi (Clerk, 1995-1996). Articles Editor, 1996-1997 and Member, 1995-1997, University of Memphis Law Review. Author: "Weapons in the Workplace: The Effect of Tennessee's Concealed Weapons Statute on Employer Liability," 28 Univ. Memphis L. Rev. 281 (1997). Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Tanja Lueck Thompson | | J. Edward Wise (Member) born Sumner, Mississippi, February 11, 1932; admitted to bar, 1956, Tennessee. Education: Washington & Lee University (A.B., 1953); Vanderbilt University (LL.B., 1956). Phi Delta Phi. Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, 1960-1965. Member: Memphis (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: J. Edward Wise | | ASSOCIATES | | R. Alex Boals (Associate) born Nashville, Tennessee, December 9, 1975; admitted to bar, 2003, Tennessee; 2004, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee. Education: University of Memphis (B.A., 1999; J.D., 2003). Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: R. Alex Boals | | Monique R. Gougisha (Associate) born New Orleans, Louisiana, July 7, 1977; admitted to bar, 2002, Louisiana. (Not admitted in Tennessee). Education: Loyola University, New Orleans (B.A., 1999); Tulane University School of Law (J.D., 2002). Member: New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations; National Bar Association. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment. Email: Monique R. Gougisha | | Pamela Renee Irons (Associate) born Chicago, Illinois, November 21, 1966; admitted to bar, 2001, Illinois; 2004, Tennessee. Education: Loyola University (B.S., 1990; M.S.I.R., 1996; J.D., 2001). Member: Memphis, Chicago, Tennessee, Illinois State and American Bar Associations; National Bar Association. Practice Areas: Employment Law(100%). Email: Pamela Renee Irons | | Amber Isom-Thompson (Associate) born Tallahassee, Florida, October 20, 1974; admitted to bar, 2000, Colorado; 2001, Tennessee and U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee. Education: Rhodes College (B.A., 1996); University of Iowa (J.D. with high distinction, 1999). Sigma Tau Delta. Recipient, College of Law Merit Fellowship. Member: Memphis (Labor and Employment Law Section), Tennessee (Labor and Employment Law Section), Colorado and American (Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Amber Isom-Thompson | | Elizabeth S. Rudnick (Associate) born Cleveland, Ohio, October 22, 1972; admitted to bar, 1998, Maryland; 1999, Ohio; 2008, Tennessee. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, 1995); Case Western Reserve University (J.D., 1998). Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Employment Litigation; Civil Rights. Email: Elizabeth S. Rudnick | | LEGAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL | | Patrick T. Fleming (Human Resources & Management Consultant) born Knoxville, Tennessee, August 12, 1952; Education: University of Tennessee at Knoxville (B.S., 1977). Human Resources Manager, Maremont Corporation, 1978-1989. Member, Society for Human Resource Management. Vice Chairman, Tennessee's Area 11 Private Industry Counsel-Job Training Partnership Act, 1987-1989. Organizational Analysis, Government Agency Investigations, Management and Supervisory Training Programs, Development of Personnel Policies and Team Concepts. Email: Patrick T. Fleming | | R. Bradley Mokros (Research Specialist) born Boynton Beach, Florida, December 2, 1959; Education: Washington University (B.A., 1984). Contributing Author, The Developing Labor Law-Third Edition, Chapter 30 "Accommodations to Other Federal Enactments." Research Assistant to Professor Pat Hardin, Editor in Chief, The Developing Labor Law-Third Edition. Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: R. Bradley Mokros | | Rachel Davis Spencer (Paralegal) born Oxford, Mississippi, March 21, 1953; Education: Northwest Mississippi Junior College (Associate Paralegal Studies, 1975); University of Mississippi (1971-1973). Practice Areas: Private and Public Sector Labor Law; Employment Law; Litigation. Email: Rachel Davis Spencer | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
New Orleans, Louisiana Office: 639 Loyola Avenue, Suite 2550, 70113. Telephone: 504-648-3840. Fax: 504-648-3859.
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