Labor & Employment
We are labor and employment lawyers who counsel employers on complex workplace laws and regulations, and represent them before federal, state, and local labor and employment agencies, such as the NLRB, the EEOC, and OSHA.
Our litigation practice includes complex executive compensation matters, class/collective actions, trade secret/unfair competition cases, breach of fiduciary duty and executive malfeasance cases. Our vast labor and employment litigation experience is the platform from which we provide advice and counsel to help our clients solve workplace challenges covering the entire range of employment issues. We focus both on traditional labor issuesâincluding elections, contract negotiations, arbitration, strikes and lockoutsâto employment law areas, such as discrimination, disability, Family and Medical Leave Act, workplace safety, and wage and hour issues.
We practice employment law backed by the resources of a full-service firm in corporate, tax, bankruptcy, intellectual property, securities, employee benefits, oil and gas, media, complex litigation, cybersecurity, and all the areas offered by Jackson Walker attorneys. By blending our labor/employment subject matter experience with practitioners from these areas, we offer a unique blend of labor/employment subject matter know-how to handle complex litigation cases that cross disciplines, counsel clients on high level executive compensation matters, and offer practical solutions for business issues from a multi-disciplinary perspective. We empower our clients with this multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience, in the courtroom and the boardroom.
Our clients include international Fortune 100 companies, privately held companies of all shapes and sizes in media, retail, oil and gas, alternative energy, technology, entertainment and hospitality, trucking and delivery, financial and insurance, and manufacturers. Our cases range the full spectrum from âbet the companyâ cases to single plaintiff labor/employment lawsuits.
With a deep bench of experienced lawyers, Jackson Walkerâs employment practice has unparalleled knowledge of the Texas and national labor and employment landscape.
Within only the last two years, we have enjoyed the following successes for our clients:
- We tried a complex executive fraud/breach of fiduciary duty case, with significant counter claims against our client, to a jury for nearly four weeks. After we tried the rest of the case to the court, we ultimately prevailed with a $1.7 M judgment against the former executive, settling the case after that on extremely favorable terms.
- We decertified a 100-plus plaintiff collective action FLSA overtime case, and then tried the first group of those plaintiffs to a jury, resulting in a settlement during jury deliberations with which our client was very pleased.
- We tried a case against a labor union that was seeking millions of dollars in allegedly unpaid benefits and won so emphatically that the union did not appeal.
- We filed a computer fraud and abuse act against a former executive of a large, publicly traded company, and brought such force to bear in the case, using a team led by our labor/employment lawyers but including bankruptcy and e-discovery lawyers, that it settled very favorably 6 weeks after we filed it, with the executive losing millions of dollars in benefits as a result of a âcauseâ termination.
- We decertified an FLSA collective action that would have had nearly 100 plaintiffs, leaving it with only 7 named plaintiffs, against whom we ultimately won summary judgment.
February 7, 2025
Attorney News
Jackson Walker Announces Election of 12 Attorneys to Partnership
Jackson Walker is proud to announce the election of 12 outstanding attorneys to the firmâs partnership.
January 28, 2025
Insights
DEI in the Spotlight: Employer Strategies for a Shifting Landscape
By Dawn S. Holiday
On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled, âEnding Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunityâ (the âOrderâ). The Order instructed all executive departments and federal agencies to âterminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements.â
January 23, 2025
Insights
President Trump’s Executive Order: Ending E.O. 11246 and Its Impact on Federal Contractors
By Sarah Mitchell Montgomery
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, âEnding Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunityâ (the âOrderâ). Among other things, the Order rescinds Executive Order (âE.O.â) 11246, which was issued by President Johnson in 1965.
January 22, 2025
Insights
Supreme Court Lowers Burden of Proof for FLSA Overtime Exemptions
By Michael Drab and David Schlottman
On January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court for the United States issued an opinion interpreting the standard of proof employers must meet to establish the applicability of an exemption to the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (âFLSAâ).
January 21, 2025
Insights
3 Costly Mistakes Houston Employers Make and How to Avoid Them | Houston Business Journal
In this article featured in the Houston Business Journal, G. Scott Fiddler discusses how employers can address various employment law challenges by seeking proactive legal consultation, thereby avoiding costly litigation.
January 7, 2025
Insights
Labor and Employment Expectations as the Second Trump Administration Nears
By Jackie StapleÂ
With Inauguration Day quickly approaching, the United States is about to enter President Trumpâs second term, âTrump 2.0.â With each new presidential administration, labor and employment law changes, sometimes drastically when thereâs a party change.
January 6, 2025
Attorney News
D Magazine Lists Five Jackson Walker Attorneys Among “Best Lawyers Under 40” for 2025
Jackson Walker congratulates Dallas attorneys Erik Allison, Vienna Flores Anaya, Lamar Dowling, David Schlottman, and Ashley P. Withers on their inclusion in D Magazineâs 2025 âBest Lawyers Under 40â list recognizing outstanding young attorneys in the North Texas area.
December 20, 2024
Attorney News
âFort Worth Magazineâ Lists 27 Jackson Walker Attorneys Among the âTop Attorneysâ of 2024
Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of 27 Fort Worth-based attorneys to Fort Worth Magazineâs âTop Attorneysâ list for 2024. To be selected for inclusion, attorneys with an active license and who practice within the Tarrant County area must be nominated by their peers within the region. The list of nominees then goes through a ârigorous panel review to assure the highest of quality is met.â
December 19, 2024
Attorney News
Jackson Walker Adds Benefits Pro In Dallas | Law 360
November 7, 2024
Spotlight
Jackson Walker Earns 26 National and 140 Metropolitan Rankings in 2025 Edition of “Best Law Firms”
Jackson Walker proudly announces its inclusion in the 2025 edition of Best Law FirmsÂŽÂ by Best Lawyers. This year, Jackson Walker observed notable improvements in the national rankings, including the rise of Real Estate to Tier 1, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, and Trusts and Estates to Tier 2, and the addition of Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) in Tier 3.
