Jeremy W. Hawpe advises and represents employers in the health care, insurance, staffing, and transportation industries in a broad range of employment law matters. He appears in state and federal courts throughout Texas and has specific expertise with matters involving:

• The Texas Covenant Not To Compete Act
• Title VII
• The Fair Labor Standards Act
• The Americans with Disabilities Act
• The Family and Medical Leave Act
• State antidiscrimination statutes

He also assists clients with unfair competition issues, discrimination and harassment claims, and FLSA compliance.

Jeremy's litigation experience includes the successful prosecution of a breach of non-solicitation agreement involving former agents, including the misappropriation of trade secrets and tortious interference claims, which resulted in a jury award of compensatory and punitive damages; the prosecution of an unfair competition/non-compete matter, in which the jury found in favor of plaintiff on all counts; a national origin harassment case in which he obtained a complete defense verdict; and a successful mandamus proceeding reversing the district court's order for pre-suit depositions. He's had similar success on appeal, including a complex ADA-Title VII-Employee Retirement Income Security Act-Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim in which the court of appeals affirmed summary judgment, along with another case in which the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant was upheld.

Jeremy is board-certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Prior to joining Littler Mendelson in 2005, Jeremy was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable George P. Kazen, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas.