Tamika Newson brings 27 years of experience as a practicing litigator to her work as a licensed mediator and adjunct professor. She represented corporations and employers as a Partner in small, medium and large Am Law 100 law firms for 22 years before serving as Chief Litigation and Employment in-house counsel for public and private corporations. Professor Newson has expertise in all categories of employment discrimination claims, wage and hour, trade secrets, non-competes, workplace investigations and class action cases. Professor Newson has represented large publicly traded corporations in employment and commercial litigation, including civil rights, contracts and public relations matters. She practiced extensively in federal courts across the U.S., often being selected as primary counsel to represent corporations nationally. Professor Newson also has municipal court experience as a former employee of the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis and judicial experience as a law clerk to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Professor Newson primarily mediates employment and commercial disputes. Stylistically, she is persistent, engaged, well prepared and brings a high level of emotional intelligence and sensitivity to the individual parties’ needs and objectives. It is her goal to creatively and collaboratively explore opportunities for resolution before, during and after the mediation, ensuring that the mediation is tailored to the needs of each case.

Professor Newson is currently Chief Litigation & Employment Counsel with Vituity, a wholly physician-owned healthcare services organization where she advises on all physician-partner related issues and concerns related to Vitality’s employee workforce and subsidiary corporations nationwide. She also speaks and writes on corporate law, alternative dispute resolution and employment issues nationwide.

Professor Newson graduated from DePauw University with a double major in political science and sociology and received her J.D. from Mitchell Hamline School of Law. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the 1st, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Northern District of Georgia, Northern District of Illinois, Western District of Michigan, District Court of Minnesota, and the states of Georgia, Minnesota and Tennessee.