M. Reid Estes, Jr.

M. Reid Estes, Jr. is the Practice Group Chair for the South Region Labor & Employment Practice. He has nearly 40 years of experience as a trial lawyer and has served as trial counsel for numerous Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the restaurant, hospitality, retail, manufacturing, construction, health care, and other industry sectors, and during his career has handled nearly every conceivable type of case from tort claims, to theft of trade secret, covenant and contract breach, commercial litigation, and “bet the company” cases. He has significant class action experience in employment and consumer cases including FLSA hybrid class/collective actions and consumer class actions under TILA, FCRA, and FCC Truth in Billing Act. Mr. Estes has also served as neutral and/or arbitrator in all types of employment cases, class and collective actions, construction, breach of contract and business dispute cases.