Darren Horvath, is a member of the Employment, Labor and Immigration Group at Taylor English. He is dedicated to counseling and defending both private and public employers in labor and employment matters. Mr. Horvath has successfully litigated cases for employers in state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout the country. These cases have included discrimination, retaliation and harassment claims under state and federal employment laws, federal and state leave laws, overtime, minimum wage, and exempt classification claims under the FLSA and state wage and hour statutes, FLSA collective actions, state law tort claims, whistleblower claims, breach of contract claims, and equal protection, due process, first amendment, excessive force, and other constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Mr. Horvath also has successfully represented litigants in cases involving trade secrets and restrictive covenants, including seeking and defending against requests for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions

In addition to a successful track record of defending employers in litigation, Mr. Horvath also assists clients with avoiding potential legal claims by providing thoughtful advice on employment-related issues, such as employment contracts, severance agreements, employee policies, handbooks and procedural manuals, restrictive covenants, FMLA, ADA and FLSA compliance, drug testing, background checks, termination and other personnel decisions, and handling complaints of harassment, discrimination or other allegations of misconduct. When providing such advice, Mr. Horvath focuses on developing practical solutions that minimize legal risks without losing sight of the client’s business and operational considerations.

Before joining Taylor English in 2009, Mr. Horvath practiced labor and employment law as an associate and equity partner with Fisher & Phillips LLP, from 1996 through 2009

Scott Porter, is a member of the Employment, Labor & Immigration practice group at Taylor English. He primarily focuses his practice on labor and employment counseling and the negotiating and drafting of employment and severance agreements. Mr. Porter has particular experience representing clients in media, entertainment, sports, and higher education.  Mr. Porter also represents executives with respect to the negotiation of employment-related agreements.

Mr. Porter has extensive experience counseling clients concerning day-to-day employment issues such as hiring, discipline, firing, reductions-in-force, disability accommodations, and requests for leave; preparing employment agreements, restrictive covenants, separation agreements, employee handbooks, supervisors’ manuals, and various employment policies; conducting sexual harassment investigations; and conducting equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment training seminars.

Mr. Porter has also represented employers successfully in a wide variety of employment and other litigation matters in both state and federal courts as well as before administrative agencies in Georgia and throughout the country. These matters have included cases involving state and federal discrimination statutes (including harassment and retaliation claims), employment related state law torts, breach of contract, tortious interference with contractual and business relationships, and unfair labor practice claims.

Prior to joining Taylor English in 2007, Mr. Porter served in-house for eight years as a Senior Employment Counsel for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Prior to joining Turner, Mr. Porter was an associate with the labor & employment group of Powell Goldstein, LLP.

At Turner, Mr. Porter negotiated and drafted executive and on-air talent agreements; provided advice with respect to contracts, policies, procedures, personnel decisions and internal investigations. He ensured compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements created and revised company-wide policies and procedures; and conducted training for supervisors and human resources employees, including helping to create and implement a company-wide harassment and respectful behavior training program. Mr. Porter was the primary employment counsel for CNN for much of his tenure at Turner.

Mr. Porter has twice spoken to the Georgia Bar Association about the ADA Amendments Act and has been a guest lecturer at Georgia State’s Executive MBA Program.
Mr. Porter and his partner have a wonderful daughter and are active at All Saints Episcopal Church.

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Keith Green has worked with thousands of individuals who are preparing for retirement.  He responded to critical gaps in the U.S. retirement system by founding the American Retirement Initiative in which he serves as its president.  The American Retirement Initiative is a national conversation that facilitates best practice-sharing among trusted advisors.  ARI provides thought leadership on employer-sponsored retirement plans and the retirement landscape in general in the US.  He brings to this role over 20 years in leadership roles for leading financial services companies offering retirement solutions to individuals and organizations.

In his early career with TIAA-CREF, Keith worked as an Institutional Consultant, collaborating with colleges and universities on their retirement plan designs.  Keith then joined Aetna Financial Services as its Regional Manager in its Michigan office and ultimately became vice president for its Southeastern Region.

After ING’s acquisition of Aetna Financial Services in 2000, Keith held progressively responsible roles, including Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Senior Vice President of Domestic Emerging Markets.  He was then appointed Senior Vice President and executive-on-loan to Hemisphere, Inc., an organization tasked with bringing the headquarters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas to Atlanta.  Much of his time during that period was spent in Latin American and the Caribbean capitols promoting trade and working on economic development issues with diplomats and democratically elected leaders.

In January 2006, Mr. Green was appointed Vice President of Government Relations for ING, responsible for ING’s state government relations in twenty US states.  He held this role until 20ll when he founded the American Retirement Initiative.

Keith received both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan.

Bob Reid graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, married his sweetheart and went on to get a Master’s in EE from Stanford University. The work at Stanford was paid for by Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. His time at Bell Labs was by far the happiest time of his life. While starting a family, Bob became an instrument rated pilot. Working at the Labs was heaven for an engineer, where he wrote software for one of the first packet switches that was actually deployed. Bob produced the first computer generated animated video. (16mm movie!)

The department Bob was a part of was the systems engineering department for all data communications of the Bell System, and they never thought that the internet would be the result of the channels and switches that they were working on.

After taking a promotion with AT&T, where they put him through an Executive MBA program at Pace University, Bob decided the next headhunter that called would get his attention.

Bob and his family moved to Atlanta In 1980 to join a startup in satellite communications called Isacomm, where he was in charge of all the advanced data communications applications. The main outgrowth of that group was the first video conferencing network called “The Meeting Channel.” Isacomm was bought by United Telecom and eventually became the national accounts division of US Sprint. Rather than move to Kansas City, Bob joined Scientific Atlanta and began the very early development of the VSAT product line.

Bob left Scientific Atlanta in 1987 and wrote a business plan for AvData Systems, a shared hub satellite service, where he raised $1.4M in initial funding for this new company and booked $3.7M in revenue before we opened the doors for business.

In 2004 Bob Reid joined SDN Global as VP of Business Operations. SDN is an enterprise and military communications company using satellite and other technologies to literally cover the globe.
 
In more recent years, Bob has been the VP of Business Development at The Kotter Group, a 100% Virtual Desktop Company.

Bob Reid’s greatest mentor and influence was his father who was part of the greatest generation. He returned from the war to start a fine furniture manufacturing company which continues today under one of his grandsons. (reidclassics.com). He taught Bob what it meant to be a real patriot and to start and run a business successfully. He also instilled in him a love for math and physics.

Bill brings a Client focused attention to the Business Development initiatives for Talent Connections and Career Spa. Bill’s career encompasses 20+ years of Leadership, Business Strategy, Sales Process, and Human Resources success. As President at AMPF/AMCI, a consumer products company, Bill has initiated a targeted Sales focus across his national team to increase customer interaction, built sales processes consistent across the organization and increased customer contact to grow the brand. Bill’s background includes start-up experience where he served as Director of Sales for FANMATS, a consumer products company.

From 1997 to 2003 Bill led the recruiting practices and leadership development initiatives as Manager of Staffing and Development at Larson-Juhl, a Berkshire-Hathaway subsidiary. In this role, Bill initiated an entirely new national sales recruiting process and strategy, built the recruiting criteria, identified the key criteria for performance success and worked collaboratively across the organization to drive the process.

Bill is active in career mentoring and business networking as a board member for the St.  Brigid Business Connection Group and he volunteers with the Christ Centered Career Group (C3G) at Northpoint Community Church – both located in Alpharetta, GA. In addition, Bill is active in the Atlanta Catholic Business Conference, the Kettering Executive Network, the Furman Business Breakfast series, Hith Tech Ministries and the Men of St. Brigid.

Earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Furman University in Greenville, SC,   Bill chose to stay in the southeast after growing up in south Florida. Bill, his wife Laura and their daughter Hampton live in Alpharetta where they are active with travel softball, school activities and enjoying the outdoors. They enjoy golf, tennis, tent camping, trips to the beach and their Boxer, Samantha.