Ginger Clem Hyneman
Associate
Complex Business Litigation, ERISA Benefit Litigation, Products Liability, Media Law, First Amendment Law
Ms. Hyneman is an associate in the firm’s Northeast Arkansas office. Her practice areas include complex business litigation, tort liability, and employee benefits litigation. She has worked on a range of matters including contractual disputes, commercial disputes, bankruptcy, transportation law, OSHA regulations, products liability, media law, land use, commercial and residential real estate, employment discrimination, defamation, ERISA, and insurance disputes.
Ms. Hyneman has substantial experience in litigating ERISA benefit denial cases, including obtaining numerous judgments on the administrative record and successfully assisting in mediating and settling ERISA benefit denial cases. She assisted as regional outside counsel for a prominent national insurance company in federal courts in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, and with appeals in the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Ms. Hyneman has provided pre-publication advice to media entities and assisted in defending a national media entity in a defamation claim, winning summary judgment. She has also participated in editing the Survey of Tennessee Libel Law section of the Media Law Resource Center for annual publication.
At Lyon College, Ms. Hyneman received the Politics Book Award, which is given to the top graduate in the Politics major. She was a member of the Law and Ethics Research Committee for the Arkansas Ethics Commission and participated in the Nichols Travel Study Program, studying in Rome, Italy in May 1997.
While at the University of Arkansas School of Law, Ms. Hyneman was a member of the Arkansas Law Review. She served as an intern for the Honorable Jimm Larry Hendren, Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, during Spring 2000.
Ms. Hyneman is licensed to practice law in the States of Arkansas and Tennessee, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of Tennessee, and the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas.
Ms. Hyneman practices primarily from the firm’s office in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but also maintains an office at the firm’s Little Rock location.
Education
University of Arkansas School of law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2000)
Lyon College (B.A., cum laude, 1997)
Associations and Affiliations
Defense Research Institute, American Bar Association, Arkansas Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Pulaski County Bar Association, Memphis Bar Association
Phone:
501-379-1731
(Little Rock)
870-931-1701
(Jonesboro)
Fax:
501-379-1701
(Little Rock)
870-931-1704
(Jonesboro)
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