Carr, Kevin L.

Representative Experience

• Represent employers in the collective bargaining process with labor organizations
• Regularly advise employers during union organizational efforts and elections
• Regularly provides advice and representation to employers and businesses associated with H2A and H2B workers programs, including defense of class and collective actions
• Lead counsel in numerous trials of unfair labor practice charges and appeal to the National Labor Relations Board
• Conduct labor and employment due diligence reviews in connection with mergers and acquisitions 
• Aggressive and successful representation in contract interpretation and discipline arbitrations
• Lead trial counsel in over 200 employment cases in various jurisdictions throughout the United States, including trials in state and federal courts, on a myriad of labor and employment issues
• Lead trial counsel in numerous wage and hour, immigration and employment-related class and collective actions
• Developed strategies for companies dealing with the full array of employment and labor issues, including EEO policies, practices and personnel decisions 
• Appellate work before numerous state and federal tribunals 
• Conduct training sessions for private and public employers on various issues of employment and labor law
• Defense of employment discrimination actions before the West Virginia Human Rights Commission and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Develop a broad range of employment and personnel policies, practices, and procedures, including drug-testing policies
• Develop strategies for employers in connection with layoffs, reductions in force and facility closings 
• Represent Executives in matters of compensation and contract issues

Education

• West Virginia University, B.A., cum laude, honors graduate, Presidential Scholar, 1992
• West Virginia University, J.D., 1995

Admissions

• West Virginia State Bar
• West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia

Affiliations

• Kanawha County Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Publications

• Cutting Edge Issues in Traditional Labor Law, SuperVision, 2006 and 2008  
• "Wage and Hour Law Update," Lorman, 1997-1999, 2001, 2006 and 2008 
• "A Survey of Disability Law," Lorman, 1999 and 2006
• "Electronic Data Discovery," "Technology-related Workplace Harassment," and "Discovery Assistance on the Internet," American Bar Association, 1999, 2000 and 2001
• West Virginia Human Resources Guide to Hiring & Firing, West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, 2004 and 2009
• Featured in "Team Chemistry - Cytec Industries Inc. and Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC"
  by Steven Andersen, Counsel to Counsel Magazine, Fall 2010

Awards and Distinctions

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Recognized as a West Virginia and Corporate Counsel Super Lawyer
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Labor & Employment Law, Employment Law - Management, and Labor Law - Management 
• Recognized as a Leading Labor & Employment Attorney in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers