Murphy Anderson PLLC

Arlus J. Stephens

Arlus Stephens represents employees, labor organizations and trustees of employee-benefit plans in construction, manufacturing, service, retail, law enforcement and other industries.  He has broad experience with the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act and other employment laws.

Arlus has successfully represented clients in litigation in venues across the country, including federal and state courts, private arbitration panels, and state and federal government agencies like the NLRB and the EEOC.

After law school Arlus worked as a law clerk for Chief Judge Walter H. Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and for Judge Reynaldo G. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

He serves as a Senior Editor for an American Bar Association practice manual, How to Take a Case Before the NLRB, and he previously served as a Chapter Editor for the ABA's labor treatise, The Developing Labor Law.