Emily Hunter Plotkin

With more than fifteen years' experience as a labor and employment attorney, I have a pragmatic business acumen developed through strategic partnership with clients, both as an outside counsel and in-house counsel at a Fortune 500 manufacturing and automotive services company. In addition to providing general employment advice and counsel to clients, I also have spearheaded employment compliance projects to ensure company policies and platforms match employment laws across all fifty states. I also have significant experience representing employers in claims brought through alternative dispute resolution programs. As such, I recognize the importance to both sides of getting matters resolved without resort to often needless and costly litigation, and am trained as a mediator to serve as the neutral to guide parties to resolution. In addition to my practice as a labor and employment attorney and mediator, I also teach legal writing at Vanderbilt University Law School. I am a graduate of Columbia University Law School in New York City, where I was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and an Associate Articles Editor on the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts.

Columbia Law School

J.D.

2000 - 2003

Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

Activities: Associate Articles Editor, Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts

Emory University

B.A

1998

magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Member

Hunter Plotkin Law, PLLC

2018 - Current

Instructor in Law

Vanderbilt University Law School

2018 - Current

Senior Counsel

Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

2011 - 2018

Attorney

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

2003 - 2011

Tennessee Rule 31 Listed Civil Mediator

Tennessee Supreme Court

Best of the Bar - Corporate Counsel

Nashville Business Journal

2018

Tennessee State Bar  # 022978

Member

Current

Middle District of Tennessee

Tennessee

Western District of Tennessee

6th Circuit