Claudine G. Jackson
Partner
A board-certified labor and employment lawyer, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Claudine Jackson practices in the areas of labor and employment, workplace injuries, medical and professional liability, as well as commercial litigation. Claudine has over 20 years of litigation and trial experience and has tried employment, personal injury, and commercial cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. She has represented parties in arbitration and in claims with the EEOC, Department of Labor, Texas Workforce Commission, and Texas Education Agency.
In addition to litigation, Claudine focuses her practice on counseling management and human resources representatives on a range of workplace and employment law matters. She advises employers on developing and applying personnel policies, document retention policies, compensation/bonus plans and protecting their business interests through implementation and enforcement of non-competition and non-disclosure agreements. Claudine assists and serves as personal counsel for employees in negotiating employment and executive agreements, separation packages, and non-compete provisions.
Experience
- Handled claims of sexual harassment; discrimination based on sex, race, disability, age and national origin; wage and hour issues including FLSA; wrongful discharge; retaliation; breach of contract, breach non-compete and non-solicitation provisions, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Counsels employers in a variety of employment law aspects including hiring, retention, and termination of employees, reductions in force, prevention of lawsuits, pre-suit resolution of claims, on-the-job injuries, and other workplace issues.
- Represents Texas employers in non-subscriber (on-the-job injury) claims and has successfully tried and defended businesses in these matters.
- Represents businesses and individuals in commercial litigation related to non-competition and non-solicitation provisions, contract disputes and breach of contract, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duties.
- Frequent speaker for clients, trade organizations, professional continuing education groups.