Dylan Potts

Dylan Potts

Mr. Potts is a director and shareholder with Gill Elrod Ragon Owen & Sherman, P.A. Mr. Potts is a Little Rock native, educated at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas and The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. In law school, Mr. Potts was a member of the National Trial Team and was a finalist in the Southeastern Regional Trial Team Competition. After serving as a Deputy Public Defender for the Eleventh-West Judicial District, Mr. Potts joined Gill Elrod Ragon Owen & Sherman, P.A. in July of 2002. Mr. Potts’ practice focuses on commercial litigation with significant experience in employment law and administrative law. Mr. Potts has significant jury trial experience and has served as Special Judge for Little Rock District Court.

Mr. Potts chairs the Employment Practices Group at Gill Elrod Ragon Owen & Sherman, P.A., representing a variety of corporate entities in all aspects of employment law throughout Arkansas. Mr. Potts routinely litigates employment actions including defending companies sued directly by the EEOC. He has represented employers in all aspects of the EEOC charge process including mediation, on-site investigations, and conciliation and has defended companies facing Department of Labor charges for both Family Medical Leave Act violations and Fair Labor Standards Act violations. Mr. Potts works daily with managers on compliance and policy issues including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Mr. Potts has significant experience in negotiating and enforcing Employment Agreements, Severance Agreement and Covenants Not to Compete.

Mr. Potts’ trial and arbitration experience includes the successful representation of minority shareholders in a dissenters’ rights action brought against a publicly traded company, the successful defense of a majority shareholder in securities fraud litigation in one of Arkansas’ longest jury trials, the successful prosecution of commercial and residential construction negligence and warranty claims and the successful prosecution of fraud and contract claims against a national oil franchise.

Since joining the firm in 2002, Mr. Potts has devoted a significant portion of his practice to representing Arkansas’ largest pension fund, Arkansas’ largest and oldest adolescent and child behavioral health care system and the nation’s largest health club receivable company.

Mr. Potts and his wife, Angie, have a daughter, Caroline, and two sons, Christian and Jude.