Gene Linkmeyer, Litigation Department Chair
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Gene Linkmeyer is the Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. Gene adds fifteen years of experience in commercial, labor and employment matters to our firm.

Before joining the Jacobs Law Group Gene was an Associate with Hamburg and Golden, P.C., in Philadelphia, and Krukowski & Costello, S.C., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mr. Linkmeyer is a cum laude graduate of both Vermont Law School (1995), and Villanova University (1987). He taught legal writing while at Vermont, and served as the Judge of student elections at Villanova, and has been elected to the his law school's Alumni Board of Managers. Mr. Linkmeyer also teaches legal writing and research at Widener University's Legal Education Institute.

Mr. Linkmeyer currently serves as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, hearing tort and contract claims. He presents a quarterly Webinar for HR Professionals through the local chapter of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Managers).

Gene has co-authored and contributed his editing skills to several important law volumes that assist both attorneys and front-line supervisors, including: "How Arbitration Works," (6th Ed. 2004), ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law; "The Employment Law Manual for Wisconsin Employers," Krukowski & Costello, S.C., and; "Advanced Collective Bargaining for Employers," Krukowski & Costello, S.C. Gene is currently writing "The Employment Law Manual for Pennsylvania Employers."

Notable reported cases in which Gene has helped clients achieve their goals include:

Basketball Mktg. Co. v. FX Digital Media, Inc., 257 Fed. Appx. 492 (3d Cir. 2007). Hart v. Villanova Univ. Sch. of Law, 863 A.2d 1235, 2004 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4720 (Pa. Super. 2004), allocatur denied, 583 Pa. 663; 875 A.2d 1075; 2005 Pa. LEXIS 1054.

Mitchell v. Temple Univ. Hosp., 2004 WL 2004370, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18160 (E.D. Pa. 2004).

Woodfolk v. U.C.A.B. and Temple Univ., No. 347 CD 2004 (Pa. Commw. 2004); allocatur denied 581 Pa. 687; 863 A.2d 1152.

IBEW 494 v. Gerald Nell, Inc., 341 No. 71 (NLRB 2004).

In re: Harnishfeger Industries, Inc., 270 BR 188 (D. Del. 2001).

Podewils v. N.L.R.B., 274 F.3d 536 (D.C. Cir. 2001).

Kerry Ingredients, Inc., 116 LA 497 (2001).

Wausau-Mosinee Paper Co. and Local 1260. www.wisbar.org/werc/ga/2000/6083.htm

Human Rights Comm'n v. LaBrie, Inc., 668 A.2d 659 (Vt. 1995).