tmurphy@littler.com
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625 Liberty Avenue, 26th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Main: (412) 201-7600
Fax: (412) 456-2377
Terry Murphy has represented employers for more than 30 years in all aspects of labor and employment law, including:
- Discrimination and wrongful discharge jury trials
- Employment discrimination class actions
- Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission litigation
- National Labor Relations Board proceedings
- Collective bargaining
- Labor arbitration
He practices regularly in multiple federal district courts and before administrative agencies and has extensive knowledge of:
- Title VII
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
- The Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- The National Labor Relations Act
- Executive Order 11246
Among his notable cases, Terry successfully defended:
- A trucking company in an EEOC pattern-and-practice sex discrimination case
- A major life insurer in an asserted nationwide collective action under FLSA
- A Fortune 100 manufacturing company in an age discrimination class action
Additionally, Terry counsels employers on wage and hour matters, human resource practices and policies, affirmative action, reductions-in-force, and workplace investigations. His clients include hospitals, universities and manufacturing companies.
Terry is admitted in multiple federal district and appellate courts. He regularly speaks on labor and employment law issues. He has been a chapter editor and senior editor of the Employment Discrimination Law (BNA).
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS
- Member, EEO Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section - American Bar Association
- Member, Litigation Section - American Bar Association
- Member, Section on Labor and Employment Law - New York Bar Association
- Member, American Employment Law Council
- Member, New York Management Attorneys Conference
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association
- Director, Waynesburg University
- President, Board of Trustees - Shadyside Presbyterian Church
Member, Board of Directors - Coalition for Christian Outreach
RECOGNITION
- Named, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business – Chambers USA
- Named, The Best Lawyers in America, 2007-2012
- Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
- Named, Management Labour and Employment - Who's Who Legal
PUBLICATIONS
- January 20, 2012
BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
- Employment Discrimination Law, 2010 Supplement, associate editor, BNA, 2010
- Employment Discrimination Law, 2009 Supplement, associate editor, BNA, 2009
- Employment Discrimination Law, 2008 Supplement, executive editor, BNA, 2008
- "Seniority," Employment Discrimination Law, Chapter 17, 4th Ed., BNA, 2007
- "Separation Agreements," Employment Law Deskbook for Human Resources Professionals, Chapter 37, contributing author, West Group, 2001 and 2005
PRESS
- September 12, 2011
- July 11, 2011
- June 27, 2011
- February 8, 2011
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
- June 2002A Comment on Forced Employee RankingsThe Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Vol. 10, No. 6
- October 1998What Every Employer Should Know About Supreme Court Rulings on Sexual HarassmentProvider, Vol. 24, No. 10, American Health Care Association
- 1983Protected Concerted Activity and Refusals to Work34 Labor Law Journal 654, CCH
- 1983Labor Relations Law, 1982 Survey34 Syracuse Law Review 345
- 1980Labor Relations Law, 1979 Survey31 Syracuse Law Review 347
- 1979Labor Relations Law, 1978 Survey30 Syracuse Law Review 129
- 1977Impasse and the Duty to Bargain in Good Faith39 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 1
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- September 22, 2011
- May 18, 2011
ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS
VIEW ALL- September 5, 2011Review of the Supreme Court's Labor and Employment Law Decisions in the 2010-2011 Term
Allegheny County Bar Association - November 3, 2010Wage and Hour Collective Actions: What You Need to Know
Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Employment Law Institute West - September 17, 2010Human Resources Issues
NCCN HR Executives' 2010 Conference - September 14, 2010The Supreme Court's 2009-2010 Term: A Review and Analysis of Key Labor & Employment Decisions
Allegheny County Bar Association - April 6, 2009Gender Discrimination Class Actions
Law Seminars International - 2009Valuing Employment Cases
PBI 2009 Employment Law Institute West - 2009Force Reductions in a Declining Economy
National Conference on EEO Law, Labor and Employment Law Section - ABA