About Lance Andrew
Lance Andrew Bowling constructed his foundation in labor family members at Cornell University, where he earned a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations. He followed that with a J.D. from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Those two degrees set the arc of a career spent in large part on labor and employment things.
He started his legal career as an affiliate at McGlinchey Stafford in 1998. He moved in-house in 2003 as senior in-house counsel for labor and employment at Dynegy. He returned briefly to personal practice as of counsel at McGlinchey Stafford in 2007 before taking a senior counsel role with Dresser-Rand in 2009. In 2013 he joined ExxonMobil as counsel in labor and employment, then stepped right into a global position in 2015 as senior associate general counsel for international labor and employment at Chicago Bridge & Iron. In 2018 he became head of work relations at Entergy. Since 2020 he has served as managing member of The Bowling Firm, PLLC.
Those roles track a continuous move from company-aspect work to senior in-residence positions and back into private practice. His company appointments placed him in power, engineering and heavy enterprise environments the place collective negotiation, union family members and cross-border labor problems are routine. The titles on my own recommend duty for giant-scale labor insurance policies, agreement negotiations and dispute decision, though the specifics of person matters remain confidential to clients and employers.
Bowling is admitted to practice in Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. He additionally keeps active club in the State Bar of Texas, the State Bar of Georgia and the Louisiana State Bar Association. The multi-jurisdictional admissions mirror the interstate nature of many employer-aspect labor disputes and employment compliance problems.
In practice he handles a spectrum of work and employment matters: collective bargaining and union family members, employment legal proceedings, inner investigations and adherence counseling. His background in corporate counsel roles means he frequently advises on policy improvement, employment contracts and mitigation of union-related risk. He has labored on both strategic planning and day-to-day labor issues.
Colleagues describe a lawyer comfortable in high-pressure company settings and in negotiation rooms the place labor and control interests collide. He has moved thru roles that require each legal evaluation and operational court decision. That mix informs how he strategies client things now.
He currently practices at The Bowling Firm, PLLC, specializing in labor and employment things throughout Tennessee, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia.
