Jeff Weintraub is a partner in the Memphis office. He is a trial attorney who has represented employers in more than 59 jury and bench trials in the private and public sectors in employment-harassment/discrimination and retaliatory discharge lawsuits alleging violations of public policies and statutes, such as the False Claims Act. Jeff also handles Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges, wage and hour cases, labor cases, and enforcing non-competes in all federal and state courts and agencies, various Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He provides training for employers in avoiding harassment charges and employment litigation and is a frequent speaker at employment and labor seminars around the country. For many years, he has taught the Employee Relations & Labor component in the Society for Human Resource Management's HR Certification course in Memphis. Jeff is admitted to practice in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri.

Jeff was selected for HR Executive’s 100 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers from 2017-2019 and 2016 Top 20 Lawyers in the United States in Traditional Labor & Employment Law. He has also been included in The Best Lawyers in America since 1995, as well as Mid-South Super Lawyers since 2005. Since 2010, he has been named as a Power Player in Employment Law by Inside Memphis Business. He also has been included in the World's Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers (United Kingdom) for the last ten years and has also been listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers since 2013.

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Honors & Awards

• HR Executive’s 2017-2019 100 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers
• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (1995 – 2021)
• Recognized as a Mid-South Super Lawyer since 2005
• Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers since 2013

Professional Activities

• Chairman, Small Business Council of The Greater Memphis Chamber
• Member, The Chairman’s Circle of The Greater Memphis Chamber
• Board Member, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) - Memphis

Community Activities

Jeff is a member of the Executive Board of the Chickasaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America, comprising over 26,000 scouts and 5,000 leaders in 17 counties in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, and he is a recipient of the Council's Silver Beaver Award. He also is on the Board of the Memphis Orchestral Society.

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Seminars & Speaking Engagements

• Retaliatory Discharge Actions Based on Filing a Workers Compensation Charge
  Compliance Online
  7.15.14
• Obesity Discrimination
  The Society for Human Resource Management
  5.20.14
• EEO Training
  Chamber of Commerce
  Poplar Bluff, MO
  5.13.14
• Union-Avoidance Training
  Roxul
  5.12.14
• Same-Sex Employment-Discrimination Issues
  Webinar
  4.4.14
• Employee and Labor Relations
  The Society for Human Resource Management
  4.5.14
• Workplace Bullying and Harassment
  Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Council HR Legal Summit.
  11.14.13
• Retaliatory Discharge for Filing a Workers Compensation Claim
  NBI Seminar: Workers Compensation
  12.9.13
• Local Government Law: What Attorneys Need to Know; Human Resources Issues; and Ethics 
  NBI Seminar
  12.13.13

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