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Jerry Hartman is a partner in the Labor & Employment Practice Group.
Labor and Employment Experience. Jerry concentrates his work on equal employment law and class action litigation representing management. His practice includes matters before the federal trial and appellate courts, EEOC and OFCCP.
Over the years, he has represented many major American corporations in class action and governmental pattern and practice discrimination cases involving statistical proof and testing. He represented a major telecommunications company in one of the largest Title VII class actions ever brought. The EEOC withdrew from this case shortly before trial after seven years of litigation. He successfully defeated two class actions brought against a major retailer, one at its headquarters and the other for all its stores. He has also settled successfully class actions prior to and after their initiation. Jerry also has defended numerous employers in litigation involving individual claims of discrimination and wrongful termination.
In his previous capacity as a senior trial attorney in the Employment Law Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Jerry had lead responsibility for many pattern-and-practice cases and received a special Commendation Award from the attorney general of the United States.
Teaching Experience. Jerry is a former professor of law at Wake Forest University School of Law and a former adjunct professor of law at George Washington University Law School.
Jerry co-authored Defending and Preventing Employment Litigation, an authoritative guide to help minimize employment lawsuits, published by Aspen Publishers, and The Model Employer, a comprehensive text on employment law, published by George Washington Law School.
In General. Prior to entering practice, Jerry served as a law clerk for Judge James Coleman, former chief judge of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. | 