Tanja L Thompson

Practice Areas

Labor Management Relations

Career

Tanja dedicates her practice to representing companies in the area of traditional labor law. Companies across the country and across many industries, including technology, transportation, healthcare, cannabis, manufacturing, services, refining, insurance, staffing, and others, seek her skills both in remaining union-free and in negotiating labor agreements and managing union-represented workplaces. Employers look to her for fresh thinking and creative approaches to business-critical decisions affected by organized labor.

As a tireless advocate for her clients, Thompson's union-free efforts include representing clients in traditional and corporate campaigns, comprehensive union vulnerability assessments, detailed communication strategies, as well as developing and conducting engaging union avoidance and positive employee engagement training.

For unionized clients, she is a savvy negotiator who takes a proactive, business-centric approach to represent her client’s interests at the bargaining table – thereby fostering stronger labor relations and more productive and engaged workplaces following bargaining. Represented clients also seek Thompson's counsel in labor arbitrations, NLRB litigation, and developing training and communication programs to ensure effective management under collective bargaining agreements.

Additionally, Thompson is the current office managing shareholder of Littler's Memphis office and is also a co-chair of Littler’s Traditional Labor Practice Group, She previously was a member of the firm's Board of Directors and is a frequent speaker nationally on labor law and union-related issues.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association - Labor and Employment Law Section; American Bar Association - Committee on Development of the Law Under the NLRA, Labor and Employment Section; Memphis Bar Association - Labor and Employment Law Section; Labor Relations Advisory Committee

Publications

The Developing Labor Law, Bloomberg BNA, associate editor, 2011-2020; The Developing Labor Law, Bloomberg BNA, co-editor-in-chief, 2014; Guide to Workplace Law, Random House, 2nd Ed., American Bar Association, associate editor, 2006

Education