Lovita Tandy joined King & Spalding in September 1997. Before joining the firm, Ms. Tandy clerked for the Hon. Richard L. Williams in the Federal District Court Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. She is a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group and concentrates on traditional labor law, employment discrimination litigation, and employment related contractual disputes including:

• litigating race discrimination, sexual harassment, trade secret, restrictive covenant, FMLA, reduction-in-force, age discrimination, whistleblower litigation (including Sarbanes-Oxley Act litigation) state law tort and complex breach of contract matters
• serving as company spokesperson and lead negotiator during collective bargaining agreement negotiations
• structuring work relocations of unionized employees in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other business combinations
• conducting internal training, investigations and audits on a wide variety of labor and employment related topics
• conducting labor arbitrations and practicing before the NLRB

Ms. Tandy is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of Georgia and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She is co-chair of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Committee on the Courts, and is a member of the Labor and Employment Sections and the Litigation Sections of the American, Georgia and Atlanta Bar Associations. She is Vice-President of the Atlanta Anti-Prejudice Awareness Consortium which provides anti-prejudice programming for Metro Atlanta area middle-school students from more than 45 public, private and parochial schools.

Ms. Tandy graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in African-American Studies in 1992. She received her J.D. from Duke School of Law in 1996. Ms. Tandy was an Articles Editor on the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy and a member of Moot Court. She frequently speaks to employers, lawyers and human resources professionals on various labor and employment topics. Her most recent publication is Unions’ Rights To Company Information (Third Edition) (2001) (co-authored with H. Lane Dennard, Jr.).