Warren B. Lightfoot Jr

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment Law

Compliance & Risk Management

Non-Competes, Unfair Competition & Trade Secrets

Experience

Warren lightfoot is a Shareholder and Member of Maynard Nexsen’s Labor & Employment Practice. He has more than 30 years of experience representing and advising clients in all aspects of labor and employment matters, including significant wage and hour and federal discrimination litigation. Warren's commercial litigation and business tort practices encompass all aspects of non-compete enforcement, trade secret litigation, and competitive torts, as well as fraud, contract, and insurance disputes. He has successfully litigated dozens of such cases as lead counsel, and in his business tort practice, has obtained or defended companies against injunctions across the country.

Representative Experience

Obtained preliminary injunction based on non-compete agreement and trade secrets claims for aerospace defense contracting firm against engineering development and weapons development executives in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Alabama

Obtained dismissal of a sexual harassment and retaliation suit for a home healthcare company in the Northern District of Georgia; judgment affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit

Provided general counsel employment and management services for California based international cybersecurity company in transition after spin-off

Won jury verdict in tortious interference suit in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Alabama

Successfully enforced duty of loyalty and trade secrets misappropriation case and obtained significant monetary recovery for insurance brokerage agency in the Northern District of Florida

Successfully defended marketing firm against multi-million dollar claims of fraud and shareholder oppression in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama

Obtained permanent injunction for health care information systems company against former salesman in the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas

Obtained summary judgment for a financial services company in an age, race and sex discrimination termination suit brought by a long-time management employee claiming $800,000 in damages in the Northern District of Alabama; judgment affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit

Successfully defeated non-compete enforcement claim in sensor technology industry in the Superior Court of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Obtained summary judgment in a disability discrimination case brought against financial services company and three individual management defendants under the Missouri Human Rights Act in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri

Won arbitration in Florida defending hospital district against million dollar executive compensation/severance claim

Successfully defended insurance company in banking industry against multi-million dollar fraud claims brought by trucking firm in the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Alabama

Obtained temporary restraining order for healthcare laboratory in Southern District of Alabama

Successfully enforced non-compete agreement against on-air personality in radio industry in the Northern District of Alabama

Obtained dismissal of FLSA class action for national retailer in the Southern District of Alabama

Defeated preliminary injunction based on non-compete claims in temporary staffing industry in the Middle District of Georgia

Obtained temporary restraining order, injunction and favorable settlement for distributor of auto parts in theft of trade secrets matter against former employees and their employers in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama

Defeated enforcement of non-compete agreement by automobile publication company against salesperson in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama

Education