Jackie Staple, a Texas board certified labor and employment attorney in Jackson Walker LLP’s Houston office, focuses on advising and counseling businesses on employment law compliance and handling labor and employment transactional matters. Jackie has depth of experience drafting various employment, separation and release, and restrictive covenant agreements; conducting due diligence of employment considerations in equity and asset transactions; and litigating a breadth of employment claims, including discrimination, harassment, whistleblower, and wrongful termination claims.

An experienced litigator and advisor focusing on employment law and business law, Steven’s breadth of experience gives him a unique understanding of issues that business owners, shareholders, partners, executives and key employees face, and the strategies needed to get his clients the best possible results. Steven works tirelessly for his New York and New Jersey clients with employment law needs, designing customized and cost-effective compliance strategies, including tailored handbooks, policies and procedures manuals, training programs, workplace investigations, and responses to agency audits; if litigation becomes necessary, he has the trial experience and understanding to mount a vigorous defense. For entrepreneurs, start-ups and business owners, Steven provides honest and effective legal advice, compliance strategies and contract preparation with a view toward maximizing business gains and minimizing future disputes. He also protects and asserts the rights of business owners in non-competition, trade secret, and business defamation claims.