Thomas W. Scrivner

Representative engagements include:

• Negotiating to agreement three collective bargaining contracts on a coordinated bargaining basis, covering most of the employer's work force, including two first-time contracts
• Managing litigation defense of employment claims for multi-state employer
• Successfully defending in court and before administrative agencies employment litigation matters (actual and potential), including class wage-hour and discrimination issues, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, harassment discrimination, arrest/conviction record, retaliation, and defamation
• Defeating a union’s National Labor Relations Board petition at a large nonprofit social services agency, including raising substantial legal issues that would have quadrupled the size of the appropriate bargaining unit, which resulted in the union withdrawing the petition
• Successfully defending two labor contract grievance-arbitration matters in the agribusiness industry relating to the scope of the bargaining unit, resulting increased business flexibility and an opportunity for operational expansion on a non-union basis
• Representing a nonprofit employer in a disability discrimination case in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was convinced that the case was not a good test of retaliation theories, and resulting in 33 separation agreements standing as drafted and signed
• Successfully defending a church property dispute, which led to a departing splinter group having to return the property to church entities.in an orderly and timely manner without further litigation or appeals