Mr. John F Lomax, Jr

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Experience: Significant Representations: Represented employer before trial
  appellate courts in EEOC-led pattern-
  -practice case involving alleged discrimination on Native American reservations
  Represented employer in several nationwide class actions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
  Represented employer in a jury trial alleging off-the-clock under the Fair Labor St
  ard
  Represented employer in four-week trial in wage
  tort claims
  contract claims asserted by an employee/shareholder
  Represented health care provider in a week-long arbitration brought by physician/employee who alleged contract, wage payment, whistleblower
  tort claims
  Member of a National Coordinating Counsel team overseeing litigation of a large number of wage/hour class actions, FLSA collective actions
  MDL proceedings on behalf of national employer
  Represented multi-state employer in defense of Fair Labor St
  ards Act off-the-clock cases
  Defended executive in a contentious non-competition lawsuit - litigation included a four-day preliminary injunction over the non-competition clause
  Advised employers in labor negotiations/strike planning in many different industries
  involving wide variety of unions including IAM, UMW, IBEW, NABET, UAW, IATSE
  SEIU
  Represented employers in many representative case proceedings
  unfair labor practice hearings, before the NLRB
  John Lomax routinely represents private companies doing business on the Navajo Nation
  other federally recognized Native American reservations. On the Navajo reservation, he advises employers on the Navajo Preference Employment Act
  Navajo Nation Business Opportunity Act. He assists employers with i) investigations
  charges before the Office of Navajo Labor Relations, ii) hearings before the Navajo Nation Labor Commission,
  iii) cases before tribal
  federal courts. In the course of representing companies doing business on reservations, John regularly advises companies on the regulatory expectations,
  at times conflicting dem
  s, the companies face under federal law
  tribal laws. Drawing on his experience as an employer-side labor
  employment lawyer, John works with clients to comply with applicable laws, develop strategies for community relations,
  achieve business objectives while working with native peoples
  their governments.