The Houston Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Section (L&E Section) comprises about 500 members representing all perspectives of labor and employment law: plaintiff and defense attorneys, in-house counsel, public sector / government attorneys, and mediators / arbitrators with experience in labor and employment law. The L&E Section strives to provide labor and employment law attorneys in Houston and surrounding areas with networking opportunities and topical seminars.
Monthly CLE lunch meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month in-person at Brennan’s of Houston (and virtually through live webinar). In addition, the L&E Section offers several social functions for its members, including a Holiday Party and table sponsored at the HBA Annual Harvest Celebration, along with other networking and educational opportunities.
2024-2025 Section Officers
Chair
Larry Stuart, Stuart PC
Immediate Past Chair
Nehal Shah Anand, Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Vice Chair
Daniel Ramirez, Monty & Ramirez LLP
Chair-Elect
Abby Kotun, PNC Bank
Secretary
Carolyn Martin, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Treasurer
Luke MacDowall, Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Council Members
Angeles Cassin, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Ahad Khan, Attorney at Law
Ashley Thomas Matthews, Motiva Enterprises LLC
Jeff McPhaul, Locke Lord LLP
Hessam Parzivand, The Parzivand Law Firm PLLC
Mauro Ramirez, Ramirez Law, PLLC
Gregg Rosenberg, Rosenberg & Associates
Joshua Verde, The Verde Law Firm, PLLC
Mariah Berry, Muskat Devine
Don Foty, Hodges & Foty
Deidra Sullivan, City of Houston
Nandini Sane, Cozen O’Connor
Michelle Mahony, Murphy Oil Corporation
Brett Holubeck, Fisher Phillips
Jacqueline Del Villar, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Member Details
Section Members: 497
Section Dues: $35
Meetings
$40 for section members
$45 for non-section members
$15 for virtual attendees
Section Resources
Latest L&E Presentations
- The Impact of Recent Supreme Court and Fifth Circuit Cases on Your Employment Practice (September 10, 2024)
- The Future of Corporate DEI Initiatives – What’s an Employer or Plaintiff’s Lawyer to Do?(June 11, 2024)
- 2024 Update on Data Privacy Regulations and Trade Secret Protection(May 14, 2024)
- U.S. EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan FY 2024-2028 ( April 9, 2024)
- The Care and Feeding of Senior Executives – Agreements, Compensation, Discrimination, and Non-Competes (July 11, 2023)
- One Year After Dobbs: The Impact on Texas Employers (May 9, 2023)
- New Protections for Pregnant Workers & Parents: The PWFA and the PUMP Act (April 11, 2023)
- Updates to Chapter 21, Texas Labor Code; Ending Forced Arbitration Act; and Speak Out Act (February 14, 2023)
- Non-Competes and Other Ancillary Matters (October 11, 2022)
- Intersection of Employment and Criminal Law (September 13, 2022)
- Top Fifth Circuit Employment Cases of 2021-2022 (August 9, 2022)
- 2022 Supreme Court Update (July 21, 2022)
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Section Committees
By-Laws Committee: chaired by Hessam Parzivand and Radha Thiagarajan
Holiday Party Committee: chaired by Abby Kotun, Daniel Ramirez, Dennis Clifford, and Larry Stuart
Scholarship Committee: chaired by Abby Kotun, Angeles Cassin, and Mauro Ramirez
Social Media Committee: chaired by Kelline Linton
Website Committee: chaired by Angeles Cassin
The Timothy Bowne Fellowship
In Memoriam Timothy Bowne; 2013-2014 HBA Labor & Employment Law Section Chair
The Timothy Bowne Fellowship provides a $3,000 grant to one current law student (1L or 2L) who works in an unpaid
summer internship for a governmental entity in the greater Houston area and expresses an interest in labor and employment law.
Click here to apply for The Timothy Bowne Fellowship.