Jaron
P. Blandford
Member
Admitted: 1998, Kentucky,
U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District
Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky and U.S. Court
of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; State of Tennessee pending.
Law School: University of Kentucky, J.D., 1998;
Member, Moot Court Board. Associate Editor, Kentucky Law Journal,
1997-1998.
College: Western Kentucky University, B.A., Government, 1995
Member: Fayette County, Kentucky and Federal Bar Associations; Defense Research
Institute.
Biography: President, Federal Bar Association, Kentucky Chapter
2005-2007; 2006 Delegate to the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference.
Born: Lexington, Kentucky, December 15, 1972
Mr. Blandford joined the Lexington
law firm of McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland in 1998.
Mr. Blandford focuses his practice on civil litigation with an
emphasis
in all areas of labor and employment law. Mr. Blandford is
currently involved in a substantial amount of employment related
work, including
representing clients in state and federal court and before
the EEOC and various Human Rights Commissions. He has represented
a
variety of clients in all state and federal administrative
agencies, and in state and federal courts under the FMLA, ADEA,
Title VII,
and numerous state civil rights acts. In addition, he regularly
represents and advises business clients in preparation of employment
policies, employment manuals and general personnel matters,
including hiring and firing. Mr. Blandford has experience in initiating
lawsuits
on behalf of employers to enforce non-compete agreements and
to protect against and recover for misappropriations of trade secrets.
The employers represented by Mr. Blandford maintain employees
from
as small as a handful to thousands. Mr. Blandford is a frequent
speaker on employment issues and works with clients on preventive
strategies to avoid discrimination, retaliation and other employment
claims.
Mr. Blandford was a presenter at the
2009 Kentucky Association of Homes and Services for the Aging Annual
Conference (October 14-16, 2009) on the topic: Avoid Mistakes:
Hot Topics in Employment and Labor Law for 2009. On October 8,
2009, Mr. Blandford and other MMLK lawyers that practice employment
law presented Employment Policies and Procedures: A Critical Legal
Update for Employers.
Recently, Mr. Blandford was a panel speaker at the seminar sponsored
by the Kentucky Chapter of the Federal Bar Association entitled
Introduction to Practice Before the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Kentucky (May 27, 2009).
Mr. Blandford is a member of the Defense
Research Institute ("DRI"),
an international organization of attorneys defending the interests
of businesses and individuals in civil litigation. Mr. Blandford
is a member of the Employment Law Committee of DRI. Along with
another Lexington lawyer, Mr. Blandford authored the Kentucky chapter
of the DRI Defense Library Series Employment Law, A State-by-State
Compendium.
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