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Mr. Shuler graduated from Kansas University Law School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1969, where he was Chairman of the Moot Court Council and worked as a trial attorney in the New Orleans Regional Office of the NLRB from then until 1973, when he joined Chaffe McCall, where he has since been representing management in labor and employment law matters. Mr. Shuler is past Chairman of the Labor Law Section of the Louisiana Bar Association and has lectured on labor law at various seminars sponsored by the Section, by the Multi-State Labor Law Association and by various trade associations.

He is a member of the Employment Law subcommittee of the ABA Litigation Section; a member of the Equal Employment Committee of the ABA Labor Law Section; and a member of the ABA's Antitrust Law subcommittee on antitrust exemptions. He has annually contributed to the Equal Employment Committee's treatise "Employment Discrimination Law." Previously Mr. Shuler has served on the ABA Labor Law Section's Committee on Pension, Welfare and Benefit Plans to which he has contributed articles and a chapter in the Committee's treatise "Employee Benefits Law." He served on the adjunct faculty of Loyola University in New Orleans, where he taught Employee Benefits Law in connection with the Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) curriculum.

Mr. Shuler's practice includes a particular emphasis on construction labor law, and he is longtime chapter attorney and member of the Board of Directors of Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (Bayou and Pelican Chapters) and formerly a member of the Board of Advisors of the Associated General Contractors (New Orleans District). He is a past President of the Bayou Chapter of ABC and of the ABC State Board and has been a member of the State and National Boards of Directors of ABC. He is Legal-Legislative Advisor to the Louisiana Society of Human Resource Managers. Mr. Shuler's practice has also included substantial activity in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements in the construction, food, petrochemical, steel and other industries as well as the arbitration of disputes under such agreements.