Todd P Photopulos

Practice Areas

Immigration, Employment Counseling, Employment Litigation, Union Avoidance & Contract Negotiation, and Labor & Employment

Career

Todd is a labor and employment attorney with significant trial, arbitration, and consulting experience. He regularly represents U.S. and international employers in business immigration matters, including Specialty Occupations (H-1B), Intra-Company Transfers (L-1), NAFTA Occupations (TN), Extraordinary Ability (O), Investor Visas (E-2), and physician J-1 Waiver and National Interest Waiver visa cases, as well as permanent residency, compliance training and audits.

Work Highlights

Over 100 federal and state court cases, contested agency hearings, and arbitrations.

Appellate experience in four United States Courts of Appeals, as well as several state courts of appeals.

Representation of employers across the United States in union organizing campaigns, including multi-facility organizing and corporate campaigns.

Representation of employers across the country in business immigration matters, including H1b, L-1, TN, O, E-2, J-1, and J-1 waiver temporary visa cases, as well as permanent residency, compliance training and audits.

Campanini v. Studsvik, Inc., U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. TN (2012) (Successfully defended client in trial over $1M breach of employment contract claim).

Weyerhaeuser Company, NLRB Case No. 06-RC-079980 (2012) (successfully defended employer in union organizing (RC) matter; petitioned-for unit found not appropriate; union election petition dismissed).

Vraney v. Medical Specialty Clinic, Chancery Court of TN, No. 65204 (2012) (Successful representation of employer at trial in breach of duty of loyalty case)

Kyle v. Circus Circus Mississippi, Inc. d/b/a Gold Strike Casino, 5th Cir. No. 10-60571 (2011) (successful representation of employer casino in whistleblower lawsuit).

MMC Materials, Inc., 2006 WL 2706008 (N.L.R.B. Div. of Judges 2005).

Bayou Concrete Co., Inc., 2006 WL 467978 (N.L.R.B. Div. of Judges 2006).

In re Magid Glove and Safety Mfg. Co., L.L.C., 2003 WL 859259 (Tex. Ct. App. March 6, 2003).

Glasgow v. Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hosp. Plan 503, 2006 WL 1174459 (W.D. Tenn. 2006).

Thomas v. Bayou Concrete Company, 2006 WL 2456138 (S.D. Ala. 2006).

Sadler v. Labor Ready, Inc., 2006 WL 3147417 (M.D. Tenn. 2006).

Cheryl Funk v. Labor Ready, Inc., 2008 WL 4368946 (E.D. Ark. Sept. 24, 2008).

Hibbler v. Regional Medical Center at Memphis, 12 Fed. Appx. 336 (6th Cir. 2001).

Leaks v. Cintas Corporation, 60 Fed. Appx. 645 (8th Cir. 2003).

Maxfield v. Cintas Corporation, No. 2, 427 F.3d 544 (8th Cir. 2005).

Saint Vincent Hospital, LLC, 2004 WL 1629745 (N.L.R.B. July 20, 2004).