NASHVILLE – FordHarrison LLP, one of the country’s largest management-side labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce that Greg Grisham, a partner in the firm's Nashville office, has been elected as a Fellow to the American Bar Foundation (ABF) by the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation. Selection as an ABF Fellow is recognition of a lawyer whose public and private career has demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of society and to the highest principles of the legal profession. The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation is an honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars and is limited to one percent of the lawyers admitted to practice in the U.S. and its territories and to a limited number of lawyers in jurisdictions outside the U.S.
Greg has over 25 years of successful experience counseling and representing employers in all aspects of workplace law in Tennessee and across the United States. Greg has successfully litigated hundreds of administrative charges, employment lawsuits, and arbitration demands on behalf of employers, including federal and state law claims alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, defamation, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, wage and hour violations and ERISA violations, among others. He represents employers in the enforcement of post-employment restrictive covenants such as non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements and related trade secret litigation. He also advises Tennessee Public Charter Schools on education law and workplace compliance matters and represents business entities subject to Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act in Public Accommodation cases. For more information on Greg, visit: www.fordharrison.com/GregGrisham.
About the American Bar Foundation
Founded in 1955 by the American Bar Association, the ABF is an independent, nonprofit organization that conducts cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, empirical research that addresses critical questions at the intersection of law and society. The Fellows support the research projects of the ABF. The mission of the American Bar Foundation is to serve the legal profession, the public, and the academy through empirical research, publications, and programs that advance justice and the understanding of law and its impact on society.