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Marcia Nelson Jackson is a partner in the Labor and Employment Group of Wick Phillips. Prior to joining Wick Phillips, Ms. Jackson was Counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where she spent the last 12 years. Prior to Akin Gump, Ms. Jackson practiced in the Los Angeles and Santa Monica offices of Paul Hastings.
Ms. Jackson’s practice includes all aspects of employment and labor law, strategic client counseling, preventative training, and internal investigations. In addition to representing employers in single and multi-plaintiff employment lawsuits, she regularly represents clients in wage and hour collective actions filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as disputes involving non-competition covenants and employee benefits litigation. Ms. Jackson has appeared in state and federal courts throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, and California, as well as administrative agencies in various states. Her clients range in size from local to global companies.
Ms. Jackson is a regular speaker on current issues to employers and serves on the Employment Law Editorial Advisory Board for Strafford Publications where she is a regular presenter on their nationwide teleconference Continuing Legal Education Programs. She has previously been a presenter to the National Academy of Arbitrators and a contributing editor to the Texas Employment Law treatise. Ms. Jackson is admitted to practice in California and Texas as well as all federal courts in both states.
- Rising Star, Texas Super Lawyers, Texas Monthly and Law & Politics Magazine
- Executive Authorities Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Member, College of the State Bar of Texas
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The ADA Amendments Act of 2008 09/2010
Ms. Jackson is a regular speaker on current issues important to employers. She serves on the Employment Law Editorial Advisory Board for Strafford Publications and is a regular presenter on their nationwide teleconference Continuing Legal Education Programs, most recently speaking on online social networking and its impact on employers. She has been a presenter to the National Academy of Arbitrators and a contributing editor to the Texas Employment Law treatise. She is the co-author of “Sexual Harassment investigations - Cues, Clues and how Tos” (The Labor Lawyer) and formerly served as a contributing editor to the Schlei & Grossman treatise, Employment Discrimination Law.
- Common Discovery Issues In Employment Litigation Texas State Bar Webcast (3/23/2011)
- EEO Internal Investigations: Legal and Practice Guidance for Employment Counsel CLE Webinar (2/8/2011)
- Texas Employers: Limit Liability by Updating Your Employee Handbooks Briefings Media Group CLE (2/2/2011)
- Smartphones at Work: Maximizing Technology While Minimizing Potential Liability CLE Webinar (1/6/2011)
- E-Discovery Obligations: More Guidance, More Burden Dallas Bar Association CLE (8/16/2010)
- Facebook, Twitter & Blogging in the Workplace: What's Legal; What's Not CLE Webinar (7/7/2010)
- Facebook, Twitter & Blogging: Internet Policies to Protect Your Non-Profit CLE Webinar (6/10/2010)
- EEO Internal Investigations: Legal and Practical Guidance for Employment Counsel - CLE Webinar (4/6/2010)
- Facebook/Social Media: Strategies Everyone Can Live With Internet Strategies Webinar (3/23/2010)
- Facebook, Email and Blogging: Must-Have Employee Internet Policies CLE Webinar (2/10/2010)
- Facebook, Twitter & Blogs in the Workplace: Drafting Policies that Work - CLE Conference (9/24/2009)
- Employee Handbooks: What You Need to Know to Audit for Compliance - CLE Conference (8/20/2009)
- Social Networking Websites: Employment Law Pitfalls (8/18/2009)
- Facebook, Myspace & Blogging in the Workplace: What’s Legal; What’s Not (4/23/2009)
- Facebook, Myspace & Blogging in the Workplace: What’s Legal; What’s Not - CLE Conference (3/25/2009)
- FMLA Update - Dallas HR Employment Law Conference (3/10/2009)
- On-line Social Networking: Legal Implications of Social Networking (2/2009)
- “Disabled or Not”? That is (Still) the Question (12/2008)
- On-line Social Networking: Legal Risks for Businesses (5/2008)
- “Employee Protest, Blogs and the Like: Protected Activity or Grounds for Discharge?” - 29th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute (5/2007)
- IP & Employment Issues of On-line Social Networking: Minimizing the Legal Risks of Blogs, ListServs, MySpace (4/2007)
- Sexual Harassment Investigations Speech to the “NBI Employers Group” (1999)
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