Jeffrey M. Beemer

Jeff Beemer is a business lawyer who works with clients to achieve effective resolution of a variety of business disputes. He provides proactive advice on litigation avoidance and risk management, including daily counseling for employers on all aspects of employment law. As a seasoned trial advocate, Jeff has significant experience achieving favorable results for clients in employment cases and commercial disputes, as well as in litigation involving significant personal injury claims.

From 1995 to 1996, Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Hewitt P. Tomlin, Jr., presiding judge for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section.  

• Retained by a designer and manufacturer of ophthalmic medical products to handle their employment matters in the U.S. and Canada.
• Represented a business that provides pharmaceutical development and manufacturing services and sells several brands of nutritional and pain relief products. 
• Represented a truckload carrier in an employment discrimination case.
• Represented a captive insurance company in a breach of insurance contract action.  
• Represented a captive insurance company in a breach of insurance contract action alleging losses incurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic when courthouses in several states closed. 

• Speaker, “FLMA Mistakes that Lead to Litigation – And How to Avoid Them,” Davidson County Chapter Meeting, Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management, May 2025

• Co-Author, “FTC Declares Employees Free from Most Noncompetes, But How Far Does the Ban Go and Will It Last?,” Healthcare News, May 2024
• Co-Author, “FTC Declares Employees Free from Most Noncompetes, But How Far Does the Ban Go and Will It Last?” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, April 2024
• Co-Author, ” Federal Trade Commission Proposes Rule to Ban Non-Compete Clauses,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, Jan 2023
• Co-Author, “U.S. Supreme Court Splits the Baby as It Stays the Private Employer Vaccine or Test Mandate but Keeps the Healthcare Vaccine Mandate in Place,” Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, January 2022 
• Co-Author, “Private Employer Vaccine Mandate Moves Forward as Sixth Circuit Dissolves Fifth Circuit’s OSHA ETS Stay,” Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, December 2021
• Co-Author, “The Private Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate is Here: What Employers Need to Know,” Dickinson Wright Industry Alert, November 2021 
• Speaker, “Is Everyone Able to See My Screen? Minimizing Employer Liability for a Remote Workforce,” 2021 Tennessee SHRM Conference & Exposition, July 2021 
• Co-Presenter, “A Shot in the Arm: Current COVID-19 Workplace Issues,” Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management, April 2021
• Co-Author, “Employers’ Top Burning Questions About The DOL’s Guidance On The Families First Coronavirus Response Act Answered,”  Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2020
• Co-Author, “Employers’ Top 10 Burning Questions About the Families First Coronavirus Response Act Answered,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, March 2020
• Co-Author of the Tennessee Chapter of the Defense Research Institute Publication titled “Products Liability Defenses: A State-by-State Compendium.”
• Presenter, “The ADA Amendments and Final EEOC regulations: Advice on How to Handle the Changes to Your Workplace,” May 2011
• Presenter, “Crisis Management: Timing the Termination of an Employee Who ‘Goes Bad,’” October 2011
• Presenter, “How to Response to (and Avoid) EEOC Charge of Discrimination,” Tennessee County Attorney’s Association Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN, May 2012