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Rodney L. Bean

Education

  • J.D. West Virginia University
    B.A. West Virginia University

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia

Recent Publications By Rodney L. Bean

DOL Changes Course on Opinion Letters,
April 29, 2010
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Rodney L. Bean
Member

Rodney L. Bean
Member

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.  Mr. Bean is leader of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. 

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Received no probable cause determination from Fairfax County (Virginia) Human Rights Commission in national origin discrimination claim.
  • Landmark Supreme Court decision for employer in prevailing wage case - court reversed Department of Labor opinion applying prevailing wage law to employees of state agency
  • Represented a public entity in a disability discrimination case brought by a former firefighter with hemophilia
  • Served as primary outside labor and employment counsel to a major natural gas utility
  • Routinely arbitrates grievances for unionized employers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 1994
    Steptoe & Johnson
  • 1993-1994
    Law Clerk, Honorable Charles H. Haden II, U.S. District Court
  • 1992-1993
    Assistant Attorney General, State of West Virginia

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Defense Research Institute
  • Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia
  • Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
  • The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Super Lawyers®
  • Peer Review Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell

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

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)