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Mac B.
Greaves

Position
Partner
Office
Birmingham

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.

Noteworthy

  • Mid-South Super Lawyers, Employment & Labor (listed annually since 2014)
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management and Litigation – Labor and Employment (listed annually since 2009)
  • AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell

Publications

  • "Beyond the Blog — COVID-19 Weekly Recap — June 28, 2020," Jones Walker LLP Disaster Prep & Recovery Client Alert, June 28, 2020

Presentations

  • Samford University Cumberland School of Law Employment Law Update 2021 Conference, December 17, 2021
  • Jones Walker LLP Annual Labor and Employment Seminar, Birmingham, Alabama, November 10, 2021
  • Jones Walker LLP Labor & Employment Webinar Series, Birmingham, Alabama, November 12 & 19, 2020
  • Jones Walker LLP Annual Labor and Employment Seminar, Birmingham, Alabama, November 14, 2019
  • "Effective Harassment Prevention in the #MeToo Era Requires More Than A Policy," Alabama Society of Human Resources Management Annual Conference, May 15, 2019
  • "#MeToo and Beyond," Birmingham Society for Human Resources Legal Update, April 10, 2019
  • Jones Walker Annual Birmingham Labor and Employment Seminar, November 8, 2018

Memberships

  • Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
  • 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
  • Birmingham Bar Association
  • Defense Research Institute
  • International Association of Defense Counsel   
black and white headshot of Mac B. Greaves
Birmingham
Suite 1100
420 20th St N
Birmingham, AL 35203
D: 205.244.5262
F: 205.244.5512
Emailmgreaves@joneswalker.com

Education

  • The University of Alabama School of Law
    JD, 1975
  • Vanderbilt University
    BA, 1972

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama

Court Admissions

  • US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
  • US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
  • US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama

Related Practices

  • Labor & Employment
  • Litigation
  • Privacy & Data Security
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