Louis B. Eble

lbe@seelawpc.com
248-258-5050

Mr. Eble is an attorney with Sue Ellen Eisenberg and Associates and has many years of experience in labor and employment litigation on behalf of private and public sector employers and has extensive experience representing employers in multi-plaintiff employment litigation in both state and federal courts. He was selected a Michigan Super Lawyer by Law & Politics (2007-2009) and was named a Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America (LCA). The LCA is a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Mr. Eble is a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan Labor and Employment Law Section as well as the Oakland County Bar Association where he has served as a chair on the Employment Law Committee. He is also a member of the State Bar of Texas (inactive).

A former Texas State Trooper, Sergeant with the Houston homicide division, and special deputy with the Oakland County Sherriff Department (Michigan) Cold Case Unit, Mr. Eble received his J.D. (cum laude, 1994) from Harvard Law School and his B.S. (magna cum laude, 1991) from the University of Houston.

EDUCATION

• HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D., June 1994
  • Honors: cum laude
  • Activities: Roscoe Pound Society, Treasurer; Harvard Journal on Legislation; Texas Club
• UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON--DOWNTOWN, B.S. Criminal Justice, May 1991
  • Honors: magna cum laude; Dykes Scholarship; Award for outstanding achievement in criminal justice; Student representative on faculty selection committee

CIVIL LITGATION EXPERIENCE

• Honors:
  • Selected as one of Michigan’s “Super Lawyers,” Law & Politics - (2007, 2008, & 2009).
  • Named a Fellow, of the “Litigation Counsel of America” - (2009).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, Houston, TX
  • Assistant District Attorney/Trial Division - 05/98-9/98
  • Represented the State in the prosecution of criminal defendants (short tenure the result of having to remove my daughter from daycare due to a medical condition)
• UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON—DOWNTOWN, Houston, TX
  • Adjunct Professor/Social Science - Spring 1995 & 1996
  • Course: Criminal Procedure and Evidence.
• HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, Houston, TX
  • Police Officer/Sergeant - 1982-1989
  • Police officer in patrol and criminal intelligence divisions. Sergeant in the homicide division. Duties included investigating murder and other homicide-related incidents, police officer shootings, and kidnappings.
• TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, Houston, TX
  • State Trooper/Highway Patrol - 1979-1982
  • Primary duties were traffic enforcement, accident investigation, and criminal apprehension.

PUBLICATIONS

• Louis B. Eble, Self-Publication Defamation: Employee Right or Employee Burden?, 47 BAYLOR LAW REV. 745 (1995). This publication has been cited by at least two state supreme courts as support for their decisions to reject the self-publication cause of action. It is also cited in numerous law review articles and is referenced and discussed in a 2003 published law school textbook entitled Torts: Cases and Materials.
• Louis B. Eble, Have Defendants Lost the Right to Litigate Federal Claims in a Federal Forum?, LACHES OAKLAND COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION (Aug. 2000) republished as "Are We Losing the Right to Defend Federal Claims in Federal Court?," State Bar of Michigan Labor & Employment LAWNOTES, Winter, 2001.
• Louis B. Eble, Might Contractual-Residency Requirements be Unenforceable?, LACHES OAKLAND COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION (Aug. 2006).

ACTIVITIES

• State Bar of Michigan, Labor and Employment Law Section (1999 to present)
• Oakland County Bar Association, Employment Law Committee (1999 to present; Chair 2005-2006; Vice Chair 2004-2005)
• Oakland County Bar Association, Race Committee (1999 to present; Chair 2002-2003; Vice Chair 2001-2002)
• Citizen Representative, Public Safety Committee, Rochester Hills, MI (2001-2005)
• Member, Oakland County Sheriff’s Advisory Council (2004 to present)
• Member, Multiple Sclerosis Marathon Strider Team (2002 to present)
• Board of Director, Harvard Club of Eastern Michigan (2004 to 2008)

ADMISSIONS

• Texas, 1994
• Southern District of Texas, 1995
• Fifth Circuit, 1996
• Michigan, 1999
• Eastern District of Michigan, 1999
• Sixth Circuit, 2000
• Western District of Michigan, 2002
• Northern District of Ohio, 2003

INTERESTS

• Family activities, long-distance running, cross-country and downhill skiing.