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Office: #161
Tel: 419-772-3051
Fax: 419-772-3514
Email: jbowers@tbalawyers.com
Professor Bowers in a partner in the firm Theisen Bowers & Brady, LLC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. which is dedicated to serving the litigation, labor and employment relations law matters of its corporate and individual clients, including public sector employers.
Professor Bowers graduated, with distinction, from the Masters Program (LL.M. in Labor and Employment Law) at Georgetown University Law Center. He received his J.D. from Mercer University School of Law in 1982, and his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1978. He is currently enrolled (part-time) in the S.J.D. (Doctorate in Law) program at Indiana University ( Indianapolis) School of Law and will complete his Doctoral Dissertation by 2010.
For more than 20 years, his practice has been devoted to labor and employment relations law on behalf of private and public sector employers.
He has acted as Special Counsel to the Indiana G.O.P. State Senate Caucus for Public Sector Labor Relations Matters and is labor relations counsel to several cities and counties in Indiana.
Professor Bowers has negotiated more than 75 labor contracts with several international unions, including the Teamsters, U.A.W., Machinists, police and fire unions, and others throughout the country. He has successfully arbitrated numerous discharge, discipline and management rights cases for employers.
He practices before the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio Civil Rights Commissions, and in the federal and state courts, where he represents employers on all matters involving labor and employment relations law, including defense of employment discrimination lawsuits.
Professor Bowers has frequently counseled and trained management personnel on maintaining union-free status, as well as effective supervision and discipline of hourly employees for both union and nonunion employers. An important adjunct to his practice focuses on workplace issues, such as 'at-will' employment status, wrongful discharge, privacy and defamation, and compliance with state and federal statutory schemes, including Title VII, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, wage and hour matters, state and federal disability laws, including The Americans with Disabilities Act, and the National Labor Relations Act.
From 1991 through 1996, he was a member of the faculty at Valparaiso University School of Law as Adjunct Professor of Law teaching courses in Public Sector Labor and Employment Relations Law, Labor Arbitration and Labor Law. In 1997 and again in 2002 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University College of Law where he currently teaches labor and employment relations law courses. In 1999, he joined the law faculty at Thomas M. Cooley School of Law in Lansing, Michigan where he taught for two years.
He has written extensively on workplace issues; his articles have appeared in the Indiana State Medical Association Journal, the University of Toledo Law Review, and the Valparaiso University Law Review. He is a contributing author to the legal treatise The Employment and Labor Law Handbook for Indiana Lawyers published by the Indiana State Bar Association in the fall of 2005.
'The Impact of the Indiana Constitution at the Workplace,' (Chapter in The Employment And Labor Law Handbook For Indiana Lawyers Treatise) Indiana State Bar Association (publication: Fall 2005)
'Restrictive Covenants: Their Use and Enforcement in Indiana,' 31 Valparaiso University Law Review 65 (Fall, 1996)
'Section 8(a)(2) and Participative Management: An Argument for Judicial and Legislative Change in a Modern Workplace,' 26 Valparaiso University Law Review 525 (Spring, 1992)
'Management Decision Making and the Waiver of Statutory Bargaining Obligations: An Employer Perspective,' 21 University of Toledo Law Review 861 (Summer, 1990)
'What You Should Know About the Americans with Disabilities Act,' Indiana Medicine: The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Vol. 84, p. 628 (September, 1991)
'Forced Retirement and the ADEA,' Indiana Medicine: The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Vol. 83, p. 912 (December, 1990)
'New Federal Law Governs Patient Dumping,' Indiana Medicine: The Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Vol. 83, p. 496 (July, 1990)
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