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Thomas J. Kennedy

Thomas J. Kennedy

7047 East Greenway Parkway
Suite 155
Scottsdale, AZ 85254

2800 North Central Avenue
Suite 1100
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Phone: 480.624.2725
Fax: 480.624.2029

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Areas of Emphasis

Labor and Employment

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Representative Matters

NLRB:

  • Counsel on union avoidance strategies and wide variety of day-to-day labor relations issues
  • Union organizing campaigns and NLRB elections, including decertification elections
  • Unfair labor practices and prosecution of appeals in unfair labor practice litigation to federal appellate courts
  • All NLRB injunction proceedings, i.e. Section 10(j), 10(l) in federal court

Collective Bargaining and Contract Administration:

  • Develop strategy for negotiations, draft proposals for collective bargaining agreements, negotiate labor agreements
  • Represent employer interests in grievance/arbitration for both contract interpretation and disciplinary matters under collective bargaining agreements and individual employment agreements, interest arbitration
  • Labor contract administration

Strikes and Union Economic Strategies:

  • Advice and counsel concerning picketing, handbilling, strikes, union economic strategies, corporate campaigns, and lockouts
  • State court injunctions

Policies or Agreements:

  • Draft and review policies, including severance policies, and employment and non-compete agreements

Wage and Hour Law and Protection of Trade Secrets:

  • Counsel employers on wage and hour law, federal and state, including the FLSA and Davis-Bacon Act

ADR and Litigation Prevention:

  • Alternative dispute resolution, litigation avoidance, employment audits

Compliance with Employment Laws:

  • Counsel employers on compliance with federal, state and local employment laws and human resource issues, including reduction in force, ADA, FMLA and WARN.

Professional Activities

  • Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States; U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th and District of Columbia Circuits, District Court of Arizona, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
  • Member, Maricopa County Bar Association, State Bar of Arizona, State Bar of Wisconsin
  • Member, American Bar Association Employment Law Section

Education

  • Juris Doctor, cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School, 1972
    • Member, University of Wisconsin Law Review
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1969

Honors and Awards

  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Labor Law