Cherie W. Blackburn

Cherie Blackburn has more than 20 years of experience helping clients with employment and labor issues.  She assists them in a variety of areas including:

• wrongful termination
• sexual harassment
• Title VII discrimination
• Family and Medical Leave Act
• Americans with Disabilities Act 

In addition, Ms. Blackburn advises clients on situations involving discipline, policies, investigations, and terminations.  She has provided extensive sexual harassment training to managers and employees. 

Ms. Blackburn is a certified mediator and has argued cases in federal and state courts and has been appointed as an arbitrator in the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County.

In 2008 South Carolina’s Chief Federal Judge appointed Ms. Blackburn to chair the Merit Selection Panel for the Appointment of the Federal Magistrate in 2008.

Additionally, Ms. Blackburn writes and litigates covenants not to compete and lectures about employment law.  She wrote "Covenants Not to Compete and Other Restrictive Covenants" a chapter in Labor and Employment Law for South Carolina Lawyers which was published by the South Carolina Bar.  She also wrote a law review article titled “Post-Employment Covenants Not to Compete in South Carolina: Wizards and Dragons in the Kingdom”, 42 S.C. L. REV., 1991; as well as “Covenants Not to Compete in Employment Agreements: Would Yours Survive?” which was published in South Carolina Lawyer Magazine.

• Wachovia Advisory Board Member, Charleston
• "Best Lawyers in America" - Employment & Labor Law
• Chair of the Merit Selection Panel for the Appointment of the Federal Magistrate in 2008
• Board of Directors of the S.C. Women Lawyers Association

• Cherie Blackburn Joins Nexsen Pruet's Employment and Labor Group in Charleston
  Charleston, SC — Nexsen Pruet announced that Cherie W. Blackburn has joined the firm as a Partner in its Charleston office, where she will practice with the employment and labor law group.