Greg Guidry is a shareholder in the Lafayette, Louisiana, office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., an international firm with more than 1,000 lawyers practicing all aspects of labor and employment law. For more than 40 years, he has successfully represented management in this area, with much of his client base consisting of pipeline contractors.
Greg was the first LSU law school graduate to be hired by the Houston office of Fulbright and Jaworski. He eventually returned to Lafayette and practiced labor and employment law with the largest firm in Lafayette for 35 years and acted as chairman of the firm for 15 years.
In 1994, after defending and winning a huge lawsuit for a pipeline contractor client, Greg made his first presentation to the Rocky Mountain Pipeline Contractors Association, now APCA, and for the 32 years since, he has presented employment law updates to its members every year except one (when he was in trial). He has also represented the APCA in developing training materials for its members and in other legal matters.
Greg has also handled numerous union campaigns for APCA members over the years and has won 95 percent of those. For the three that were lost, only one wound up with a union collective bargaining agreement, and that was because the contractor was purchased by a union company while bargaining.
Greg is active in numerous business and professional associations, including the Society of Human Resource Management and its local chapter, ASHRM, where he serves as director of governmental affairs on the board. He is the past Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law and acts as permanent chair of its annual employment law seminar. He also has served on several committees of the American Bar Association’s Section on Labor and Employment Law.
Greg is married to Jane and has five children and eight grandchildren. He is an active member of St. Barnabas Church and enjoys playing golf (even though he has a 21 handicap).