Donn C. Meindertsma

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Conner & Winters, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Successful defense of parallel federal
  state claims alleging retaliation for whistleblowing
  tortious interference, including as lead counsel in two week trial
  appellate counsel on multiple appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court,
  the Michigan Court of Appeals
  Successful defense of administrative
  state-court litigation involving allegations of refusal to reinstate, including as lead counsel in trials in both the U.S. Department of Labor
  Cook County, Illinois state court,
  including successful defense of favorable verdicts in the Illinois Court of Appeals, the Illinois Supreme Court,
  the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  Principal drafter of several amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court
  Courts of Appeals, including a 2016 brief for an energy trade association in the Fourth Circuit
  Recent Speeches
  Presentations: Marijuana
  Employment Law, EEI Lawyers' Conference (Boston, October 2017)
  The Impact of External Law on Discharge Arbitrations, National Academy of Arbitrators (Chicago, May 2017)
  Developments in Whistleblower Law, Nuclear Energy Institute Legal Advisory Committee (Knoxville October 2015)
  Ever-Exp
  ing Federal Whistleblower Protections: Increasing Rewards, Growing Risks, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Section of Labor
  Employment Law, (San Francisco August 2013)