Stephanie’s practice focuses on labor and employment litigation.

Stephanie is a results-driven employer-side lawyer with 23+ years managing and defending complex litigation and large-docket, single-plaintiff cases for unionized and non-unionized multi-state, national and global corporations. Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Labor and Employment, Stephanie has achieved dismissal or advantageous settlement in approximately ninety percent of cases.Stephanie has extensive experience managing state-wide and regional dockets of administrative, arbitration and litigation cases for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 corporations, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation and trade secret/non-competition claims. She also defends complex employee collective and class action lawsuits asserting wage and hour and Title VII, ADA and similar claims brought by private individuals and federal agencies.

Stephanie routinely advises corporate executives and in-house counsel regarding legal rights, obligations and opportunities with respect to single and large-scale employee issues under both federal and state law, with an emphasis on Texas and California. Her representations encompass employers in a diverse range of industries including staffing, technology, transportation, hospitality, automotive and manufacturing.

Stephanie is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits, the US District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and all Texas courts.

Relevant Experience

• Complex class action and multi-plaintiff lawsuits involving claims of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation
• Enforcement actions and lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Wage and hour collective and class actions
• Labor grievance arbitrations and lawsuits
• Administrative charges and investigations by governmental agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Labor, and National Labor Relations Board
• Lawsuits involving covenants not to compete, employee raiding, unfair competition, and trade secrets
• Whistleblower and retaliation lawsuits

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, SMU Dedman School of Law, cum laude, 1997BA, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1994