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Practice Areas: Labor and Employment (Management) Law; Civil Rights Discrimination; Equal Employment Opportunity Law; State Based Wrongful Termination; ERISA; Construction; Wage and Hour; ADA; FMLA; NLRA; Trial Practice; Appellate Practice

Additional Information: Author: "Predecessor Labor Relations Problems in the Sale of a Business," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 50, No. 22, 1979; "Bargaining For the Control of Work," Oklahoma Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 34, September, 1980; "The Pregnancy Amendment: The Unanswered Question of Employer Responsibility for Fetal Rights," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 52, No. 21, 1981, reprinted in Case & Comment, December, 1981, Vol. 86, No. 6; Casenote, "The 1980 Pension Amendments--More Traps for Negotiations," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 53, No. 16, April, 1982; "The United States Circuit Courts and the NLRB: �Stare Decision� Only Applies if the Agency Wins--An Examination of the Doctrine of �Nonacquiescence �," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 53, No. 39, October 30, 1982; "Running Both Union and Nonunion in the 1980's," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 54, No. 13, March, 1983; "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vo. 55, No. 39, October, 1984; "OSHA's Employee Right to Know Standard--A Deadly Boring Rule with Hazardous Legal Consequences," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 56, No. 36, September, 1985; "Law of the Workplace," Oklahoma Bar Association Annual Employment Law Survey, Chapters on "Wrongful Termination," Publication No. 292, Spring, 1988; "The Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Public Employees," Publication No. 270, Fall, 1987; "Rightful Termination," Publication No. 218, Spring, 1986; "Labor Aspects of Corporate Transformation," Publication No. 195, Spring, 1984; "The Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification Act (WARN)," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 60, No. 12, March 25, 1989; "The Supreme Court and Congress Play Ping Pong with Civil Rights: Omnibus Civil Rights and The ADA," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 61, September 1990; "Internal Investigation into Employment Issues," Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 67, No. 21, May 25, 1996; "The Disabilities Litigation Explosion: The Mutual Duty to Explore Reasonable Accommodation and the New Federal 'Ticket to Work' Law," Vol. 71, No. 32, p. 2819, November 4, 2000. Editor, Oklahoma Law Letter, 1991�(published monthly). Listed: all issues "Best Lawyers"; Who's Who in Law.

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