First, please click Employment & Labor, above. UNC - Chapel Hill (BS Industrial Relations 1981) Wake Forest University School of Law (Juris Doctor 1986) Admitted: Maryland 1986; North Carolina 1989; Practiced in federal and state courts in more than 35 states over the span of a 30-year career.

I am Peer Rated 5.0 of 5.0 by Martindale-Hubbell, a national lawyer watchdog organization. 

 Appeared before the United States Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits. Appeared before the South Carolina and West Virginia Supreme Courts.

Dedicate most of my professional life now to handling employer issues and those of executive-level employees before federal and state agencies and internally as lawyer and company counselor on employment issues.

Regularly engaged in the drafting, interpretation and negotiation (and enforcement) of employment contracts, particularly those with non-competition and/or non-solicitation provisions.

Regularly engaged in issues pertaining to wage and hour law and in wage payment law.