AMY S. FERBER Amy represents clients in a wide variety of labor and employment counseling and litigation matters. She has counseled and litigated on issues involving workplace discrimination and harassment, FMLA, wage and hour laws, workers’ compensation retaliation, breach of contract, employee handbooks, separation agreements, and employment-based immigration laws.

Representative Experience

• Obtained dismissal of numerous Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges alleging a variety of discrimination claims, including sex, race, age, disability, pregnancy, and retaliation.
  
  
• Counseled a broad range of employers regarding handbooks, employment policies, wage issues, I-9 compliance, hiring practices, and termination decisions.
  
  
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a large pharmaceutical company in a Title VII retaliation lawsuit.
  
  
• Obtained dismissal of race discrimination case filed against employer in the computer industry.
  
  
• Drafted several labor arbitration briefs resulting in favorable findings for employers in connection with just cause termination challenges.
  
  
• Compelled arbitration of a number of cases filed in state and federal court for a large employer in the oil and gas industry.
  
  
• Conducted anti-discrimination and harassment training for public employer.
  
  
• Assisted employers in healthcare and technology industries in obtaining
  H-1B specialty occupation visas for a number of employees.
  
  
• Prepared witnesses for SEC testimony, deposition, and trial and arbitration testimony.
  

Results depend on facts of each case.

Professional Activities

• Member: American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section; Houston Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section.
  
  
• Author or Co-Author: “Disparate Impact Claims and the ADEA: Court Decisions and Issues After Smith v. City of Jackson,” American Employment Law Council, 2005; “How Fiduciaries Get Sued: Red Flags for Fiduciaries Under ERISA,” University of Texas Labor & Employment Law Conference, 2006.
  
  
• Speaker: “The Problems Caused by Delay: A Wrongful Termination Case Study,” Vinson & Elkins, LLP Labor & Employment Law Seminar, 2003.
  
  
• Admitted to practice: Texas (2003); Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas.

Education and Background

• University of Texas, J.D. with honors, 2003 (Order of the Coif).
  
  
• Emory University, B.S. biology and religion double major, 2000.