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Federal Employment Jury Instructions

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Todd J. McNamara is a partner with the firm of McNamara & Martinez LLP in Denver, Colorado. The firm focuses its practice on the representation of employees in all employment-related legal matters.

With over 26 years of experience, Mr. McNamara practices exclusively in the area of employment law, ERISA and class actions, typically representing employees. Mr. McNamara served as lead counsel and co-counsel in the two largest ADEA class actions successfully resolved within the State of Colorado, and secured the first race discrimination jury verdict against the largest real estate sales organization in the world for failure to grant a franchise to an African-American. Additionally, Mr. McNamara has secured two of Colorado’s largest ERISA recoveries, as well as several other multi-million dollar results for victims of age and sex discrimination and retaliation.

Mr. McNamara serves on the Board of Directors for the Plaintiffs Employment Lawyers Association in Colorado, and is a member of, and frequent lecturer for, the National Employment Lawyers Association, both locally and nationally. In addition, Mr. McNamara is listed in Colorado’s Super Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and has written extensively on employment-related topics.

J. Alfred Southerland is a shareholder in the Houston, Texas, office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (“Ogletree Deakins”). With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Southerland’s practice focuses on labor and employment-related litigation before state and federal courts and agencies, including claims involving equal employment opportunity laws, unfair labor practices, wage and hour issues, unemployment compensation, wrongful discharge, state law tort and contract claims, occupational safety and health matters, and immigration. He also counsels clients regarding developments in the areas of counseling and discharge issues, workers’ compensation, family and medical leave, wrongful discharge, and restrictive employment covenants. Mr. Southerland’s experience includes the design and development of personnel policies and management counseling that is designed to help minimize exposure to costly litigation and disputes.

Mr. Southerland is Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He is a member of the American Employment Law Council, a chapter chair to the 1998 supplement of Employment Discrimination Law, the author of “State and Local EEO and Other Workplace Laws” found in the Employment Law Deskbook for Human Resource Professionals, co-author of National Origin Discrimination Based on Accent or Manner of Speech, and is an associate editor of the Texas Employment Law Handbook. Mr. Southerland frequently speaks at employment-related seminars and has written and lectured extensively on labor and employment issues.

Ogletree Deakins is one of the nation’s largest labor and employment firms, specializing exclusively in the representation of management in all types of employment-related legal matters. For more than a quarter century, Ogletree Deakins has offered clients national representation in every aspect of labor and employment law. The firm also has thriving practices focusing on business immigration, employee benefits, environmental, and occupational safety and health law. The firm represents a diverse range of clients, including more than half of the Fortune 500 corporations in the U.S. Ogletree Deakins has 28 offices across the country, in cities including Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles and Torrance, California; Miami and Tampa, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, South Carolina; Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri; Morristown, New Jersey; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh, North Carolina; Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; and St. Croix, Virgin Islands.