Stephen Mitchell and J. Hagood Tighe Elected as College of Labor & Employment Lawyers Fellows

Stephen Mitchell and J. Hagood Tighe Elected as College of Labor & Employment Lawyers Fellows
 
Columbia, SC –August 19, 2025 – Fisher Phillips LLP, an international labor and employment law firm representing employers is pleased to announce Stephen Mitchell and J. Hagood Tighe have been elected as Fellows of The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers as a part of the organization’s 2025 class. The College is a professional association honoring the leading lawyers nationwide who practice labor and employment law.  Election as a Fellow is the highest recognition by one’s colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication, and excellence.

Stephen and Hagood will be formally inducted on November 15 in Denver, Colorado in conjunction with the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Continuing Legal Education Conference.

About Stephen Mitchell
Stephen is Regional Managing Partner of the firm’s Columbia, SC office and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Manufacturing Industry Group and the Mergers and Acquisition Practice Group. His practice includes providing advice and litigating a variety of employment matters, including employee defections, as well as collective bargaining, litigating unfair labor practices and labor arbitrations, navigating acquisitions of unionized facilities, managing union organizing efforts, and addressing work stoppages. Stephen is also the past Employer Co-Chair of the ABA Committee on the Development of the Law under the National Labor Relations Act.


About Hagood Tighe
Hagood is a partner in Fisher Phillips’ Columbia, SC, office and is co-chair of the firm’s national Wage and Hour practice. He is also a recent Past President of the South Carolina Bar. In recent years, he has handled dozens of class and collective actions throughout the country, many of which involve wage and hour issues. He also successfully defended one of the nation’s largest WARN Act class actions in recent history. Hagood also has extensive experience defending single-plaintiff lawsuits and enjoys assisting clients with advice and training to help proactively minimize the risk of litigation.

About Fisher Phillips
With over 675 attorneys in 45 offices across the United States, Mexico and Japan, Fisher Phillips is an international labor and employment firm providing practical business solutions for employers’ workplace legal problems. We regularly advise and counsel clients on issues surrounding wage and hour, employment discrimination and harassment, litigation, workplace safety, immigration, trade secrets and non-competes, and more.