Rodney L. Bean maintains a broad employment litigation and counseling practice. He has represented clients in various state and federal trial courts and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Counsels public and private employers concerning all aspects of the employment relationship
- Handled several unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board
- Drafted affirmative action plans for several government contractors
- Landmark Supreme Court decision for an employer in a prevailing wage case - court reversed the Department of Labor opinion applying prevailing wage law to the employees of a state agency
- Defended several groundbreaking cases under the West Virginia Wage Payment & Collection Act
- Regularly litigates charges before the EEOC and West Virginia Human Rights Commission
- Routinely arbitrates grievances for unionized employers
- Serves as primary outside labor and employment counsel to a major natural gas utility
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION
- Appellate law
- Labor & employment litigation
- Wage payment litigation
- Employer counseling
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994 Steptoe & Johnson
1992-1993 Assistant Attorney General, State of West Virginia
1993-1994 Law Clerk, Honorable Charles H. Haden II,
U.S. District Court
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Defense Research Institute
- Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS
- West Virginia Health Care Human Resources Association
- Society for Human Resource Management
- West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association
- Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia
AWARDS / HONORS
- Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
- The Best Lawyers in America®
- Super Lawyers®
PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- West Virginia's Very Own Celotex Trilogy: A Series of Recent Opinions by The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Reveals That the Rumors of Rule 56's Death Were Greatly Exaggerated, 98 W.Va. L. Rev. 571 (1996)