Mac B. Greaves

Mac B. Greaves


Jones Walker LLP

Recognized since 2009

Birmingham, Alabama

Practice Areas

Employment Law - Management

Labor Law - Management

Litigation - Labor and Employment

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Mac Greaves is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice Group. During his more than three decades in private practice, Mac has represented employers in the full range of workforce-related matters. Mac routinely helps clients identify, prevent, and resolve employment-related issues in an effort to avoid litigation, union organizing efforts, and other state and federal investigations. Mac handles claims and litigation relating to workers’ compensation, retaliatory discharge under the Workers’ Compensation Act, and unemployment compensation claims in all state courts. He also represents clients in any and all tort claims in the employment context and employment relationship, such as wrongful discharge, breach of contract, fraud, tort of outrage, invasion of privacy, assault and battery, false imprisonment, defamation, drug and alcohol-related issues, covenants not-to-compete, restraint of trade, trade secrets, and the Alabama Age Discrimination Act. He also prepares handbooks and drug and alcohol testing policies for clients. Mac routinely represents clients before the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor (including wage and hour and OSHA disputes), the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and all state and federal courts. He has handled disputes involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (sex, race, religion, national origin, etc.), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, COBRA, professional liability litigation (agents, directors, and officers liability), data breach/cybersecurity, and any and all other federal statutes involving the employment relationship. Mac served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Foy Guin, Jr., US District Judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, from 1976 to 1977 and served as an attorney with Region 21 of the National Labor Relations Board from 1977 to 1979.

Location
  • 420 Twentieth Street North, Suite 1100
    Birmingham, AL 35203
Education
  • The University of Alabama, J.D., graduated 1975
  • Vanderbilt University, BA, graduated 1972
Bar Admissions
  • Alabama, Alabama State Bar Association
Affiliations
  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association - Member
  • Alabama State Bar, Section of Labor & Employment - Past Member, Board of Bar Commissioners
  • American Bar Association, Section of Litigation; Section of Labor and Employment Law; Section of Tort Trial and Insurance Practice - Member
  • Birmingham Bar Association - Member
  • Defense Research Institution - Member
  • International Association of Defense Counsel - Member
Court Admissions
  • US Court for the Southern District of Alabama
  • US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • US Distric Court for the Northern District of Alabama
  • US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

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Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Employment Law - Management
  • Labor Law - Management
  • Litigation - Labor and Employment
Special Focus:
  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Class Actions
  • Defense
  • Discrimination
  • Employee Benefits
  • Litigation
  • Management
  • National Labor Relations Board
  • OSHA
  • State and Federal
  • Title VII Litigation
  • Wage-Hour Law

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