Mr. Menendez has advised a wide variety of corporations and individuals throughout the United States, including Fortune 500 companies, start-up business and government entities. He has litigated a broad range of disputes in local, state and federal courts, and before arbitration panels of FINRA, the NFA and the AAA.
Mr. Menendez is an experienced trainer and seminar leader. He has presented programs for such groups as Penn State University, Georgia State University, the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Banking Law Institute, the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, Executive Enterprises, Inc. and the Northwest Center for Professional Studies. Mr. Menendez is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. In addition, he is the author of Taming the Lawyers (Merritt Publishing 1996) and subsequently wrote and hosted an eight-part series on Georgia Public Television based on his book. The series first aired in the Spring of 2000.
Mr. Menendez also has represented a number of universities and K-12 schools and his experience also includes all aspects of employee, student, and teacher issues unique to public, charter and private educational institutions. He has handled matters involving terminations, student discipline and expulsion, harassment, constitutional protections, IDEA, Title IX, and disability-accommodation/special-education issues.