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VIDEO: Arch Stokes of Stokes Roberts & Wagner
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, 2:31 pm / No Comments
Arch Stokes, president and CEO of Stokes Roberts & Wagner, has spoken to thousands of people around the world on leadership, corporate culture, trial strategy and dealing with labor unions. Here are a few excerpts from remarks he made recently to in-house counsel at a Daily Report seminar.
Scroll down to play an mp3 audio file of Stokes’ entire speech and to read his bio.
Here is the audio of the entire speech:
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Speaker bio:
Arch Stokes received his undergraduate and law degrees from Emory University, where he was managing editor of the law review. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate and Military Judge during the Vietnam War, trying 200+ courts-martial.
He has litigated in over 100 jurisdictions cases involving class action wage & hour, contract, civil rights, class actions, collective bargaining, crisis management, ERISA, RICO, executive compensation, FMLA, ADA, personal injury and labor campaigns. He has been listed in various Who’s Who, Best Lawyer, Super Lawyer books as well as receiving an AV Rating in Martindale Hubbell for over 30 years. He is a trial lawyer’s trial lawyer.
Arch has spoken to thousands of people around the world on the subject of leadership, corporate culture, trial strategy, and dealing with labor unions. His expertise has been tapped by some of the most prestigious hospitality leaders in the United States, including Cornell University and the William F. Harrah Hotel College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he Chairman of UNLV’s Hotel School Advisory Board. Arch is a Distinguished Lecturer and Speaker for Cornell; Johnson & Wales University; University of Houston; Georgia State University; and Auburn University. He is the author of many pioneering employment law publications such as The Wage and Hour Handbook for Hotels & Restaurants (1978, updated 2007); The Equal Opportunity Handbook (1979, and under revision); and The Collective Bargaining Handbook (1981, currently under revision).
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys, the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s (AH&LA) Human Resources Committee, the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Georgia State Advisory Committee (SAC), and Chaine des Rotisseurs. Arch is a past winner of the International Platform Association’s Hal Holbrook Award, as well as the Beck Medal for Heroism. Most recently, Arch was inducted into the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
