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LESLIE L. BEALE is an attorney with The Beale Firm, PLLC. She has extensive experience in managing a variety of legal issues facing employers. While employed in-house, Ms. Beale had primary responsibility for management of the company's employment claims team, tasked with overseeing and managing company investigations, agency responses, and defense of legal actions. She has investigated and responded to more than 100 charges of discrimination from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and similar agencies. Ms. Beale has successfully represented clients in both federal and state courts, as well as in mediation and conciliation actions with various enforcement agencies. Throughout her career, she has regularly advised clients on a wide range of legal compliance issues, drafted handbooks and employment policies, and conducted training for clients and their employees. In addition to being a licensed attorney, Ms. Beale also is certified as a senior professional in human resources by HRCI and is a regular author and presenter in her main areas of expertise. She earned her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Tennessee and her J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law. J. STEVEN COLLINS has been practicing law for 22 years in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is one of the founding partners of Burroughs Collins & Newcomb, PLC. His areas of practice include commercial and business litigation, estate litigation, labor and employment law, personnel policies, products liability, trucking and motor vehicle liability, technology law, tort and personal injury and workers' compensation. Mr. Collins earned his B.S. degree, with honors, from the University of Tennessee and his J.D. degree, with highest honors, from the University of Tennessee. His bar admissions include Tennessee, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Mr. Collins frequently lectures on legal topics of interest to the firm's clients, his colleagues at the bar and to the business community. He is a former instructor for the American Institute for Property and Casualty Underwriters; former adjunct professor and member of the Advisory Board for the Legal Assistant's Department at Pellissippi State Technical Community College and former adjunct professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Mr. Collins is a member of the Knoxville (CLE Committee chair 1994 and 1995; Membership Services Committee 1996; co-chair, Professionalism Committee 1999-2005; member, Board of Governors 2000-2007; secretary 2003; treasurer 2004; president-elect 2005; president 2006; general counsel 2009), Tennessee (state-wide chair, Litigation Section 2001; Special Committee on Workers' Compensation 2004), and American (Employment Law and Litigation Sections) bar associations. KATHERINE A. YOUNG is an attorney with Young Law Office, P.C., where she focuses her practice on employment, administrative and small business matters. She has handled numerous administrative claims, as well as statutory and various other employment based claims for plaintiffs in more than 16 years of practice in Knoxville. Another facet of Ms. Young's practice involves small business representation for both plaintiff and defendant businesses in litigation. She has represented clients on appeal before the Tennessee Court of Appeals and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Young earned her B.A. degrees from the University of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota and her J.D. degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. She is admitted to practice in Tennessee and California. Ms. Young taught both undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, College of Education, as an assistant professor for five years, as well as teaching for several additional years as a lecturer. Ms. Young formerly was a fellow with the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of Tennessee. Additionally, she worked as an administrative hearing officer in the Department of Human Services and as a civil rights investigator for the Human Rights Commission for the State of New Mexico.
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