David P. Phippen

David is senior counsel with the firm. He has for many years represented businesses in a full range of labor, employment and transportation matters. He has experience in both counseling and litigation, with particular emphasis on traditional labor matters, wage and hour matters, representation of employers in administrative proceedings and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and representation of motor carriers and shippers of property in transportation matters. David also relies on substantial, complex litigation experience in a variety of cybersecurity defense matters affecting businesses, including defending against data breach and theft, data privacy violations, and cybersecurity incident litigation matters.

• "Recording Conversations in the Workplace", Strafford webinar, July 20, 2022
• "Making the Ivory Tower Old Wood: Implications of the NLRB’s Columbia University Decision for Colleges and Universities," October 2016
• Atlantic Coast Labor-Management Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, Labor Law Developments in 2015, Speaker, October 23, 2015
• "The NLRB's New Quickie Election Rules: Preparing for Rapid Response", Strafford Publications, Inc., Co-Presenter, June 17, 2015
• Lexis Practice Advisor Series: Labor-Management Relations, Author, Traditional Labor Law Practice Notes, January 2, 2015
• "What's The National Labor Relations Board Been Doing For You Lately", State Bar of Texas, Corporate Counsel Section, Summer Newsletter 2013
• "Using Criminal Background Checks in Employment Decisions," North Carolina Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Newsletter February 2013
• "Supreme Court Strongly Backs Arbitration in Non-Compete Case," State Bar of Texas, Corporate Counsel Section, Winter II Newsletter 2013
• "Labor and Employment Law Issues in the Obama Years," Speaker, Membership Meeting Nation's Capital Chapter, Institute of Management Accountants, Arlington, VA, 2009
• "Labor Law, How to Recognize and Respond to Increased Union Organizing," Speaker, Annual Conference of the North Carolina Healthcare Human Resources Association, Greensboro, NC, 2000
• "Keep on Truckin' without Overtime -- the Motor Carrier Exemption to the Overtime Requirement Covers Far More than Interstate Truck Drivers," Legal Times Special Report on Employment Law, December 1993
• "Labor Law, 1991 Eleventh Circuit Survey," 43 Mercer Law Review 1215, 1992
• "Labor and Employment Law Update," ABA Franchise Law Section MeetinG, Fall 1992
• "Drug-Use Testing in the Workplace: Law and Science," Contributor, 1990
• "The Conflict Surrounding the Producer-Distributor Relationship Requirement of the Publicity Proviso," 39 Wash. & Lee Law Review 1533, 1982
• "Right to Jury Trial Under Copyright Act's Statutory Damage Provision," 39 Wash. & Lee Law Review 800, 1982