Jackson Walker is pleased to congratulate Ariel Perez on her election as a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

Fellowship in the Texas Bar Foundation is a distinguished recognition reserved for legal professionals who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in their field and a commitment to improving the Texas justice system. Each year, only one-third of one percent of State Bar of Texas members are invited to become Fellows. Once nominees are selected, they must be elected by the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, affirming each nominee’s standing within the legal community.

Ariel joins more than 100 Jackson Walker attorneys who have been elected to fellowship and continue to actively support the Foundation as Fellows, Life Fellows, or Sustaining Life Fellows. A Fellow has made a pledge to the Foundation, a Life Fellow has completed an initial pledge, and a Sustaining Life Fellow continues to support the Foundation after fulfilling that pledge.

As the largest charitably funded bar foundation in the United States, the Texas Bar Foundation has made significant contributions to the legal landscape, donating more than $30 million to nonprofit organizations that support justice-related initiatives and services throughout Texas.

Meet Ariel

Ariel Perez is a Texas and Illinois labor and employment attorney who helps employers solve workplace problems, reduce legal risk, and defend business decisions when disputes arise. Ariel represents companies across a wide range of industries, including energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, construction, retail, hospitality, staffing, securities, and healthcare, with a focus on employer defense, employment litigation, workplace investigations, wage-and-hour compliance, restrictive covenants, and practical HR counseling. She defends employers in federal and state courts, arbitrations, and agency proceedings before the EEOC, DOL, TWC, and comparable state labor and civil rights agencies, and her experience includes discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, whistleblower, wage-and-hour, and age discrimination claims under Title VII, the ADA, FMLA, FLSA, ADEA, the Texas Labor Code, the Illinois Human Rights Act, and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act.

Companies also turn to Ariel for day-to-day employment advice, internal investigations, reductions in force, wage-and-hour audits, employee handbooks and workplace policies, employee training, accommodations and leave, labor relations, and non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. As a bilingual attorney, Ariel also helps employers with multilingual workforces and cross-cultural workplace issues where language and communication can affect risk and business outcomes.