Tom Kilpatrick is the senior member of the firm’s Labor & Employment Group. He has a four-decade track record of winning advocacy in all areas of labor and employment law, having successfully represented employers in 47 different states, before scores of state and federal courts and agencies, seven different U.S. courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court.
He represents clients in all areas of labor and employment law, including management/union matters, employment discrimination, wage and hour litigation, restrictive covenant matters, affirmative action planning and compliance, and day-to-day advice and consultation.
Tom’s practice is focused in the traditional labor law arena, including union avoidance, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, arbitration, handling picketing and handbilling matters, appearing in unfair labor practice investigations and trials, and in guiding unionized employers in the development of strategies and action plans that minimize the impact of unions.
- Lead counsel in the largest age discrimination collective action in financial services industry history in Washington, D.C.
- Lead counsel in the decertification of a putative class action brought by more than 300 plaintiffs in Miami, Florida.
- Lead counsel in defending a nationwide “corporate campaign” by labor unions against a leading industrial and mining company.
- Arbitrated more than 300 labor cases for employers throughout the United States.
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Twenty-one Alston & Bird practices have been listed in the 2013 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. These include Antitrust; Banking & Finance; Bankruptcy/Restructuring; Capital Markets: REITs; Construction; Corporate/M&A; Energy; Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation; Environment; ERISA Litigation; Government: Government Relations; Health Care; Immigration; Intellectual Property; International Trade; Labor & Employment; Litigation: General Commercial, including White-Collar and Securities Litigation; Outsourcing; Privacy & Data Security; Real Estate; Tax.
May 24, 2013
In the Press
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One hundred and forty-seven Alston & Bird attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The publication is universally regarded as among the few definitive guides to legal excellence, and its rankings are based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
September 18, 2012
In the Press
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June 7, 2012
In the Press
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September 12, 2011
In the Press
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July 5, 2011
In the Press
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August 30, 2010
In the Press
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This advisory discusses the background and implications of the September 7, 2012, decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”) that held that an employer’s social media policy prohibiting statements that “damage the Company, defame any individual or damage any person’s reputation” violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and that employees would reasonably construe the policy to restrict certain protected concerted activities, namely communications, regarding the employer’s treatment of its employees.
September 21, 2012
Advisories
Past Events
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October 6, 2011
Seminar
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June 15-17, 2011
Seminar
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June 9-11, 2010
Seminar
- Boy Scouts of America, Atlanta Area Council, General Counsel
- Georgia Chamber of Commerce – Board of Directors
- University of Tennessee College of Law – Board of Visitors/Deans’ Circle
- Kiwanis Club of Northside Atlanta – Board of Directors/Past President
- Phoenix Society – Board of Directors/Past Chairman
- Churches Homes Foundation – Board of Directors/Chairman/President
- Redeemer Lutheran Church – Church Council/Past President