Jaclyn Hermes Caugherty joined the firm in 2003 and has worked in both the Austin and Houston locations. As a Senior Associate, Jaclyn's practice focuses on labor and employment matters. Jaclyn handles labor and employment litigation matters at both the trial and appellate level. She has represented management in civil rights actions (including race, gender, national origin, disability, age, equal pay, harassment and retaliation claims under Title VII, TCHRA, ADA, ADEA, and Section 1981), wrongful discharge, employment tort, defamation, breach of contract, tortious interference, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) and other employment-related charges and litigation. She also regularly advises and defends clients in matters related to wage and hour law (FLSA), National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and a variety of other labor issues. Finally, Jaclyn performs supervisory training seminars, prepares and reviews personnel handbooks and policies, drafts employment agreements, and regularly advises clients regarding employee discipline, leave, discharge, and retention issues.

Jaclyn is Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is an active speaker and writer on labor and employment law issues. She has also been named a "Rising Star" in Labor & Employment Law by Texas Monthly in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.  

• Recently secured a favorable ruling after oral arguments from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed summary judgment in a multi-plaintiff lawsuit that involved race discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation
• Secured a favorable ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed summary judgment in an 11 plaintiff lawsuit that involved race, national origin and age discrimination, retaliation, hostile work environment and defamation
• Secured a favorable ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed summary judgment in a retaliation lawsuit
• Secured a favorable ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed summary judgment in a sex discrimination lawsuit
• Served as second-chair for a hospital in a race discrimination failure to promote jury trial, which resulted in a defense verdict
• Represented a college during a defamation jury trial, which resulted in a defense verdict
• Represented a company during a multi-plaintiff, multi-week hostile work environment jury trial, which resulted in a favorable defense outcome
• Obtained summary judgment for a company in a FLSA failure to pay overtime and retaliation dispute
• Obtained summary judgment for a company in a multi-plaintiff race discrimination, sex discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation dispute
• Obtained summary judgment for an assisted living facility in a quid pro quo sexual harassment dispute
• Obtained summary judgment for a hospital in an ERISA denial of benefits dispute
• Obtained summary judgment for an airline in a Sabine Pilot wrongful discharge dispute, which was upheld on appeal
• Served as first-chair in over 15 jury trials for the City of Austin, which resulted in successful verdicts

• American Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
  • Labor and Employment Law Section
• State Bar of Texas
• Texas Bar Association (Fellow)
• Austin Bar Association (2008 - 2012)
  • Labor and Employment Law Section
• Houston Bar Association (2003 - 2008, 2012-present)
  • Labor and Employment Law Section
• Texas Young Lawyers Association
• Houston Young Lawyers Association
• Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Recruiting Committee (2006 - 2011)

• "Texas Rising Star," Employment & Labor, Thomson Reuters (2013)
• "Texas Rising Star," Texas Monthly-Law & Politics (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
• Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

• Co-author with Brian Greig, "The Unsettled World of Retaliation Claims under Dodd-Frank," State Bar of Texas Corporate Counsel Section Winter 2012 Newsletter
• Co-author with Daniel McClure, Jonathan Franklin, Marcy Hogan Greer and Brian Greig, "Supreme Court Deals a Heavy Blow to Colossal Discrimination Class Actions," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, June 22, 2011
• "Responding to the Proposed Whistleblower Regulations for the Dodd-Frank Act," American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, April 2011
• Co-author with Paul C. Sarahan, "OSHA Publishes Final Regulations on Whistleblower Provisions under Energy Reorganization Act and Six Environmental Statutes," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, January 20, 2011
• "Latest Cases and Trends in Harassment Law and Litigation," American Bar Association Fourth Annual Section of Labor & Employment Law Conference, November 2010
• Fifth Circuit Employment Discrimination Update, Fifth Circuit Reporter, Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit, 2004 - 2010 (published quarterly) 
• Co-author with Aashish Kiran Shah, M.D., "Swine Flu:  Best Practices for Handling the Outbreak," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, April 2009
• "Workplace Privacy Issues," Employment Related Records in Texas, Lorman Education Services, May 2005, May 2006, January 2009
• "Final FMLA Regulations Issued," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Alert, November 2008
• Co-author, "United States Supreme Court Issues Significant Labor and Employment Decisions," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Alert, June 2008
• "U.S. Supreme Court Employment Decisions; The 2003-4 Term in Review," Cornerstone, Winter 2004
• "The Criminal Transmission of HIV: A Proposal to Eliminate Iowa's Statute," Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice, Fall 2002

• "The NLRB and the Future of Employment Arbitration," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Cutting Edge Series, January 19, 2012
• Co-presenter, "Employment Practices and Defenses in Employee Claims: What Does the Future Hold?" Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Web Seminar, June 29, 2011
• "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: New Retaliation Claims and Whistleblower Bounties," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Lecture Series, Austin, Texas, May 2011
• "Responding to the Proposed Whistleblower Regulations for the Dodd-Frank Act," American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, April 2011
• "Employment Law for the Workplace," Texas Hospital Association, August 2010
• "Labor & Employment Law Update: Your Questions and Answers," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Lecture Series, Houston, Texas, January 2009
• "Family, Medical and Military Leave Under the New FMLA Regulations," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. National Web Seminar, December 2008
• "Wage and Hour Update," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Lecture Series, Austin, Texas, October 2008
• "Retaliation – The Runaway Train: Burlington Northern v. White," Labor and Employment Law Update, Houston, Texas, September 2006
• "Collective Actions – Wage & Hour Disputes," Texas Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration & Education Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, September 2006
• "Workplace Privacy Issues," Employment Related Records in Texas, Lorman Education Services, Houston, Texas, May 2005 and May 2006

2003 - J.D., High Honors, University of Iowa College of Law
2000 - B.A., Honors and Distinction, Political Science and History, University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts 

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Jaclyn continued her Iowa education at the College of Law. During her tenure in law school, she served as an editor for the University of Iowa Writing Resource Center, where she edited the legal journal articles of professors and tutored law students on legal writing. She also won "Best Advocate" for the school's moot court competition and was selected as one of four third-year law students to present oral arguments to the full panel of the Iowa Supreme Court.   

Jaclyn is admitted to practice law in the State of Texas, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas. 

Jaclyn enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and watching college sports. She is an avid fan of the Iowa Hawkeyes.   

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