PRACTICE EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Shivers has practiced labor and employment law in behalf of management since 1981. He regularly counsels employers concerning a broad spectrum of employment issues and represents clients before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, and other state and federal agencies. He also assists clients with union avoidance, responding to union campaigns, collective bargaining, arbitration, affirmative action compliance, and personnel policies. Mr. Shivers is an experienced litigator, having successfully litigated numerous cases in federal and state courts, in a variety of venues, involving discrimination claims, retaliation claims, sexual harassment claims, employee benefits claims, employment contract claims, wrongful termination claims, and non-compete claims.

Mr. Shivers has served as a member of the national Legislative Affairs Committee for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and was one of the authors of the first edition of Employee Benefits Law, a treatise published by the Bureau of National Affairs and the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law. He also is one of the authors of the Mississippi Employment Law Practice Handbook, published by the University of Mississippi. Mr. Shivers is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Mid-South Super Lawyers, and The Best in the U.S., and is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

EDUCATION:
University of Mississippi, J.D., 1981
(The Mississippi Law Journal)
University of Mississippi, B.A., 1978

MEMBERSHIPS:
Mississippi Bar Association
(Labor and Employment Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections)
Louisiana State Bar Association
(Labor and Employment Section)
Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit

ADMITTED:
Mississippi, 1981
Louisiana, 1981