MEMPHIS – Ford & Harrison LLP, a national labor and employment law firm, is pleased to announce that Arnold E. Perl, a partner in the Memphis office, was selected as one of five Memphians honored at the May 11, 2006 Diversity Memphis Humanitarian Awards Dinner. Mr. Perl received recognition for his contribution to the Memphis community. This was the first Diversity Memphis annual Humanitarian Awards Dinner recognizing Memphians who have and continue to make Memphis a better place for everyone. The dinner recognized individual contributions and encouraged the promotion of tolerance in the Memphis community.
Mr. Perl joined Ford & Harrison in 2006 bringing more than thirty years of experience practicing labor and employment law to the firm. Prior to joining Ford & Harrison, he was a founding member of Young & Perl, PLC in Memphis, TN where he practiced labor and employment law for more than three decades.
Mr. Perl has received local and national recognition – including being listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 20 years, a listing in International Who’s Who of Management Labour and Employment Lawyers and recognition in both Business Tennessee Magazine as one of the Top 100 of “Tennessee’s Most Powerful People” and named to “Who’s Who” in Memphis Magazine as one of the Top 100 Influential Leaders 2005-2006.
He serves as Chairman of the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, shaping and directing the decisions of Memphis’ economic engine. Mr. Perl also serves as Chairman of the New Memphis Arena Public Building Authority, which received great acclaim for the construction of the FedExForum, home of the NBA Memphis Grizzlies. He is Secretary and Counsel, Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce; Chairman Emeritus, Japan-America Society of Tennessee; Chairman Emeritus (Co-Chair), Southeast US/Japan Association; Trustee Emeritus, University of Tennessee; and, a member of the Executive Board of SunTrust Bank in Memphis.
He is a member of the Memphis, Tennessee (Chairman, Labor and Employment Law Section, 1987) and American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section, Practice and Procedure Committee, NLRB and Co-Chairman, Relations Between Lawyers Agencies and Departments in the Field of Labor Law, 1980) Bar Associations.