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Since 1975, Karin Verdon has practiced traditional labor and employment law, including labor and ERISA litigation. She has a particular focus on representing clients in the areas of employee benefits, EEO reporting and government contactor obligations (including affirmative action obligations).
Karin has been admitted to practice in the States of Colorado, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as a number of federal district and circuit courts. She frequently speaks at seminars on labor and employment issues.
For more than 15 years, Karin was a seminar leader for the Management Institute of the University of Wisconsin. She worked as a systems development programmer with IBM before earning her J.D. at the University of Michigan. During law school, she was a research assistant to Professor Arthur R. Miller and helped test the prototype for the LEXIS computer-based legal research system.
Education
University of Michigan Law School
J.D., 1971
Newcomb College of Tulane University
B.A., 1966
Bar Admissions
Colorado
Georgia
Michigan
Wisconsin
Practice Areas
Affirmative Action
COBRA
Employee Benefits
Employment Law
ERISA
Government Contracts
HIPAA.
Marion Walker brings years of experience in both general and complex litigation and arbitration to Ford & Harrison with more than 55 cases tried to a verdict. In addition to 30 years experience dealing with private and public employment issues and litigation, she has experience with class actions, fraud, securities, business torts, intellectual property, financial instruments and construction. This includes representing clients before state and federal administrative agencies, as well as arbitrations. Marion has served as a mediator in employment and commercial cases for more than 10 years. Prior to joining the firm, she practiced law in the Birmingham office of a 450-attorney law firm.
She is a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel and the Defense Research Institute and serves on the Business Litigation and Employment Committees of both. She is a Fellow of the Litigation Council of America. Since 1997, Marion has been certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She is the founder and former president of the Birmingham Inns of Court. She is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Labor & Employment and Corporate Law Sections; State Bar of Georgia, Labor & Employment and Litigation Sections, and the American Bar Association, Labor & Employment and Litigation Sections. Marion was selected by the Judges of the Northern District of Alabama to serve both on the Rules Committee and the Liaison Committee of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama. She was also a member of the Third Citizen's Conference convened by former Governor Albert Brewer and Supreme Court Justice Oscar Adams (deceased) to develop a plan as an alternative to the election of state court judges.
Marion speaks and writes on topics including issues related to electronic discovery and document retention policies as well as employment and business related matters. Her published works include "The New Pleading Standard - What is it? Analysis of Bell Atlantic Corp v. Twombly," IADC Committee Newsletter, November 2007; Managing Trade Secrets: Protect Against Employee Theft," For The Defense, August 2006; "Plaintiff's Failure To Preserve Electronic Files May Warrant Dismissal," IADC Business Litigation Newsletter, November 2006; "The 2006 FRCP Amendments: Discovery Practice on the New Frontier," In-House Quarterly, Spring 2007; "Preservation, Document Retention, Spoliation, and Sanctions," The Business Suit, Defense Research Institute, Fall 2004; "Government Contracts Require Affirmative Action Planners," Technology Alabama, Spring, 2006; and "Witness Use of Memoranda: Present Recollection Revived and Past Recollection Recorded," Cumberland Law Review Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 1975).She also presented "Spoliation Sanctions: Can The Court Really Dismiss Your Case," Lorman Seminar, July 2004 "Discovery and Document Retention," Lorman Seminar, May 2004, and numerous seminars for invited general counsel on electronic discovery and the new federal rules of civil procedure.
She is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits, the U.S. District Courts, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, U.S. District Courts, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, Northern District of Florida, Southern District of Mississippi, District of Alaska, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Tax Court. Marion is also AV® Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
During law school, she served on the Cumberland School of Law Review for three years and was Comments Editor (1975-1976). She was also a Moot Court Associate Justice (1974-1976).
Education
Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
J.D., 1976
Sweet Briar College
A.B., With Distinction, 1972
Bar Admissions
Alabama
Georgia
Practice Areas
Class Actions
Employment Law
Litigation.
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