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Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP focuses on the representation of public sector employee organizations and their individual members. Our attorneys have successfully litigated some of the most significant public employee labor relations cases in California history. These cases have benefited hundreds of thousands of public employees, not only in California, but throughout the United States. Before starting Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP in April of 2015, its attorneys practiced with Carroll Burdick whose founding fathers were involved in the creation of the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC). In 1974, Carroll Burdick set up the PORAC Legal Defense Fund, an ERISA trust, which was the nation`s first prepaid legal plan. At Messing Adam, we utilize the team approach to labor representation. Drawing upon the experience and expertise of our skilled attorneys and non-attorney representatives, clients are able to access a wide variety of resources to tailor our legal services to meet their needs. Thoroughly familiar with the issues facing our clients, our labor team provides immediate, flexible and cost-effective responses to any labor situation that may arise. Attorneys and non-attorney labor representatives comprise the Messing Adam labor team. Our team members are frequently invited to publish articles and present seminars and workshops on public sector labor issues. Messing Adam will continue the quarterly bulletin, The Labor Beat, which highlights topics germane to our labor clients. We also post to the Labor Beat Blog whenever new cases, statutes, or other developments occur that may be of broad interest to our clients.
Horne Coupar is a Summerland, BC-based company in the Business Services sector.
Birthed out of the Legal Aid Act of 1978, West Tennessee Legal Services was incorporated after local bar members of West Tennessee expressed a need for an entity that would “act as a referral system” and aid the Bar Association by taking on non-fee generating cases. Through tireless efforts of what became members of the West Tennessee Legal Services Board of Directors, John Vlcek, Lucy Haynes, Mary Boyd, Roy Herron, Mary Jo Middlebrooks to name a few, West Tennessee Legal Services began the task of assisting the people of West Tennessee to obtain resolutions to their civil legal issues by hiring Gary Vanasek of Cleveland, Tennessee to lead the organization. Eager to get underway, Vanasek employed Jane Jarvis, as the first Staff Attorney and the organization opened its doors to the public at Suite 225, Downtown Office Building, better known as the McCory Building located on Highland Avenue on January 1, 1979. Desperately seeking a permanent home for the organization, Vanasek requested and was granted permission to purchase a furniture store in the Williams Building, located at 210 W. Main Street which still is home to the organization. The organization, at inception, served five counties, Madison, Haywood, Hardeman, Chester and Henderson counties. Fortunately, though the Expansion Grant of 1981, West Tennessee Legal Services expanded to acquire offices in Selmer, Huntingdon, and Dyersburg and began assisting clients in 17 counties: Madison, Decatur, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, Henderson, Crockett, Dyer, Lake, Obion, Benton, Carroll, Henry, Weakley, Chester, Hardin and McNairy. Becoming fully staffed in 1981, the Jackson office was comprised of five staff persons, three staff attorneys in Dyersburg, three staff attorneys in Selmer, and five staff attorneys in Huntingdon. The late 80s and early 90s the agency began focusing on funding components for servicing various civil legal needs. Funding was received to implement a Senior Citizens Law Project, a Caregivers Project (addressing the needs of the out of town families of individuals with prolonged illnesses), and the Community Council Project (helping to incorporate area social service organizations). During the 90s funding of other substantive law, areas became more pronounced. Grants were acquired to assist the disabled, unemployed, homeless, and those who suffer from domestic violence. In 1994, the agency applied and received a grant from the U. S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to fight discrimination through enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Due to the success of this project, HUD funding increased and service delivery to those needing rental counseling, pre-purchase counseling, and mortgage default counseling was supplied. In October of 2000, the agency expanded again to include funding for other LSC Programs to provide the same services in housing in five (5) States across the country. Today, WTLS passes through funding to 12+ States. Each year the funding has grown to keep pace with the needs of West Tennesseans to have additional income, victim compensation, freedom from abuse, access to education, and better lives while managing incurable disease diagnoses. As funding opportunities dwindle amid Congressional cuts, support from our funders becomes imperative.
Mackall, Crounse is a Minneapolis, MN-based company in the Business Services sector.
Haynes and Boone is a New York, NY-based company in the Business Services sector.