Brent Wilson, Partner, Elarbee Thompson LLP. ALDC Presenter and Mentor

Brent is also a frequent speaker on litigation, employment and labor relations topics for the Institute on Continuing Legal Education and the Council on Education in Management and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Labor Relations at the Emory University School of Law. Areas of Practice: Employment Discrimination Litigation; Brent helped to successfully defend a large restaurant chain against a claim of sex discrimination by the EEOC. He has also tried numerous cases in the federal and state systems to positive verdicts. Labor Relations: Brent served as an intern and Field Attorney with the National Labor Relations Board for over three years. He is a member of the Committee for the Development of the Law under the National Labor Relations Act of the American Bar Association and is a contributing editor to the treatise "The Developing Labor Law Education Law." Brent represents a variety of elementary, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, including large metropolitan school systems, state universities and charter schools. Communications Industries Brent has represented include: national telecommunications companies, cable systems and newspapers and television networks. Professional Associations: American Bar Association (Labor Relations & Employment, Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections); Atlanta Bar Association (Labor & Employment Section, Past Chair); State Bar of Georgia (State Bar Commission on Labor & Employment Laws, Co-Chair); National Employment Law Council Phi Alpha Delta; Gate City Bar Association (Executive Committee); National Association of African Americans in Human Resources Barrister; American Inns of Court Atlanta Business League; Society for Human Resource Management; Labor and Employment Relations Association; Community Activities Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta (Board of Directors, Executive Committee); St. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc. (Board of Directors); 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc. Awards & Honors: America's Leading Black Lawyers, Black Enterprise Magazine Outstanding Member 2003, Georgia Diversity Program Georgia's Legal Elite, Georgia Trend Magazine Georgia Super Lawyers (Top 100 Vote-Getter), Who's Who in Black Atlanta Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Chambers USA Leading American Business Lawyer, Who’s Who in American Law 2005, Who's Who Legal: USA, Management Labour & Employment 2006, “Best of the Best”, Diversity & the Bar © 2007 - 2008 Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP.

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