Jeff Beemer is a business lawyer who works with clients to achieve effective resolution of a variety of business disputes. He provides proactive advice on litigation avoidance and risk management, including daily counseling for employers on all aspects of employment law. As a seasoned trial advocate, Jeff has significant experience achieving favorable results for clients in employment cases and commercial disputes, as well as in litigation involving significant personal injury claims, product liability, and insurance coverage disputes. Jeff’s experience covers a broad range of industries, with particular emphasis on manufacturing, social services, electric utilities, transportation, and governmental entities.
From 1995 to 1996, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Hewitt P. Tomlin, Jr., presiding judge for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section.
Education & Credentials
Education
Indiana University
B.A., 1991University of Tennessee College of Law
J.D., 1995- Managing Editor, Tennessee Law Review, 1994-95
Bar Admission
Acknowledgements
- The Legal 500 United States
- Labor and Employment, 2022
- Mid-South Super Lawyers®
- Employment Litigation: Defense, 2019-2021, 2023
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2016-2024
Representative Clients
- Alsco Inc.
- Estes Express Lines
- Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange
- Omni Visions, Inc.
- Sekisui Plastics Co.
Prominent Assignments
- Represented a medical manufacturer in a reverse triangular merger in the medical device space.
- Representing a family owned business that provides pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services and sells several brands of nutritional and pain relief products.
- Represented a major full truckload carrier in a substantial employment discrimination case.
- Represented a home services repairs company in an equity sale transaction that was preceded by a complex reorganization and conversion of the primary, operating entity.
- Advised a computer systems training company on securities purchase transaction, representing the member-owners of in the sale of the company to a private equity-backed competitor.
- Represented a private sponsor buyer in its acquisition of two white-glove transportation/shipping companies.
- Represents a captive insurance company in a breach of insurance contract action.
- Represented a sign extrusion designer in an asset sale to a portfolio company.
- Represent a multi-state placement agency in connection with its participation in an alleged multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) covering 2,600 ERISA health plans with 35,000 employees.
Professional Involvement
- Member, International Association of Defense Counsel
- Chair, Employment Law Committee, 2016-2018
- Member, Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management
Community Involvement
- Past Vestry Member, St. George’s Episcopal Church
- Past Treasurer and Member of Board of Directors, St. George's Kindergarten
- Past Member, Steering Committee, United Way of Metropolitan Nashville Sennet Society
- Volunteer Attorney, Nashville Pro Bono Program
Publications/Presentations
- Co-Author, "FTC Declares Employees Free from Most Noncompetes, But How Far Does the Ban Go and Will It Last?," Healthcare News, May 2024
- Co-Author, “FTC Declares Employees Free from Most Noncompetes, But How Far Does the Ban Go and Will It Last?” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, April 2024
- Co-Author, " Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule to Ban Non-Compete Clauses," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, Jan 2023
- Co-Author, "U.S. Supreme Court Splits the Baby as It Stays the Private Employer Vaccine or Test Mandate but Keeps the Healthcare Vaccine Mandate in Place," Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, January 2022
- Co-Author, "Private Employer Vaccine Mandate Moves Forward as Sixth Circuit Dissolves Fifth Circuit's OSHA ETS Stay," Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, December 2021
- Co-Author, "The Private Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate is Here: What Employers Need to Know," Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, November 2021
- Speaker, “Is Everyone Able to See My Screen? Minimizing Employer Liability for a Remote Workforce,” 2021 Tennessee SHRM Conference & Exposition, July 2021
- Co-Presenter, “A Shot in the Arm: Current COVID-19 Workplace Issues,” Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management, April 2021
- Co-Author, "Employers’ Top Burning Questions About The DOL’s Guidance On The Families First Coronavirus Response Act Answered," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2020
- Co-Author, "Employers’ Top 10 Burning Questions About the Families First Coronavirus Response Act Answered," Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2020
- Co-Author of the Tennessee Chapter of the Defense Research Institute Publication titled "Products Liability Defenses: A State-by-State Compendium."
- Presenter, “The ADA Amendments and Final EEOC regulations: Advice on How to Handle the Changes to Your Workplace,” May 2011
- Presenter, “Crisis Management: Timing the Termination of an Employee Who ‘Goes Bad,’” October 2011
- Presenter, “How to Response to (and Avoid) EEOC Charge of Discrimination,” Tennessee County Attorney’s Association Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN, May 2012