Leslie Eason has over two decades of experience guiding employers through the complexities of employment law, offering tailored strategies that align with both business objectives and company culture. She focuses on resolving complex litigation and providing proactive counsel that helps mitigate legal risk, ensuring clients stay prepared for the evolving challenges of the modern workplace.

Leslie has significant experience representing manufacturers, logistics providers, distributors, and supply chain businesses. Drawing on her prior experience as in-house counsel for a manufacturing company, she understands the demands of labor-intensive, safety-sensitive, and multi-site operations where downtime, turnover, compliance issues, and employee relations matters can affect performance and profitability. She advises clients on workforce issues arising in plants, warehouses, transportation networks, and corporate environments.

Her experience includes counseling employers on matters common to industrial and operations-driven businesses, including wage and hour compliance, shift scheduling, contingent labor, reductions in force, talent retention, union activity, leave management, accommodations, workplace safety concerns, performance management, and sensitive employee relations matters. She also advises multi-state employers navigating changing legal requirements across complex operations. In addition, Leslie regularly counsels employers on proactive workplace strategies, including policy development, internal investigations, leadership training, crisis management, compliance initiatives, and risk prevention planning.

Leslie's litigation practice includes defending employers in single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, collective, and class action matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour claims, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and executive disputes. She has represented clients in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies, and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.

Leslie's combination of law firm leadership, courtroom experience, and in-house business perspective allows her to provide counsel that is both strategic and practical.

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Effective employment law is about more than compliance; it's about supporting businesses to foster successful, legally sound workplaces."
Credentials

Education

  • University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 2003, cum laude
  • Vanderbilt University, B.S., cognitive studies, 2000

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama
  • California
  • Georgia

Court Admissions

  • Alabama Court of Appeals
  • Alabama Supreme Court
  • Georgia Court of Appeals
  • Georgia Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
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