About Brian M. Jorgensen
Practice Areas
- Employment
- Class Actions
- Federal
- Labor Law
- Business Law
Education
- Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas, 1999J.D.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Law Review: Law Review, Managing Editor
- U of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, 1996B.J.
Representative Cases
- After major litigation, a nonprofit receives assistance in its reorganization (2010)
- Bank of America successfully removes case based on fraudulent joinder argument
- Bridgestone/Firestone prevails in arbitration of employee race discrimination claims (2009)
- Court Square Capital completes sale of Mosaic Sales Solutions to Acosta (2012)
- Electrolux prevails in noncompete injunction proceeding
- IBM defends against former employee's allegations of age and sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation (2009)
- IBM defends against former employee's allegations of wrongful termination and sex, race, age discrimination (2009)
- IBM defends against putative nationwide age discrimination class action arising out of reductions-in-force (2009)
- Idearc Media defends multi-state class and collective action, in which the plaintiffs allege violations of state and federal law for alleged off-the-clock work
- Idearc Media defends statewide class action in California, in which the plaintiffs claimed that their incentive payments were improperly reduced
- JPMorgan successfully defends against nationwide FLSA collective action alleging off-the-clock work at call centers (2009)
- Manhattan Associates obtains dismissal of former employer's action to enforce noncompete agreement (2009)
- Morton's successfully defends against nationwide class action in which claimants allege they were paid less than minimum wage due to alleged improper tip credits (2009)
- St. Jude Neuromodulation Division defeats claim by competitor that new hire violated non-compete (2010)
- St. Jude Neuromodulation Division obtains injunctive relief against competitor and former employees (2009)
- U.S. Steel prevails in "donning & doffing" FLSA case filed by United Steelworkers local union (2009)
- U.S. Steel prevails on all claims in nationwide “donning and doffing” collective action (2012)
- U.S. Steel wins summary judgment in putative nationwide FLSA collective action of "donning & doffing" (2009)
- Verizon Wireless defeats class certification in California wage and hour case (2009)
- Verizon Wireless defends electronic donning and doffing case involving call center workers
- Verizon Wireless defends putative nationwide class action in which the Plaintiff alleges a certain sales employees were misclassified as exempt
- Verizon Wireless obtains summary judgment in California wage and hour class action (2010)
- Verizon Wireless successfully defeats class certification in California wage and hour class action (2011)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Partner-In-Charge Dallas
- Of Counsel
- Partner
- Partner
Nearby Lawyers
- Employment
- Class Actions
- Federal
- Labor Law
- 0.5 mile away
- 0.9 mile away
- 1.2 miles away
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