I am pleased to share that Ogletree Deakins has elected four Atlanta attorneys to shareholder: Carlos G. Colón-Machargo, Jaslyn Johnson, Harry Rowland, III and Jessica Thomas. They are a part of the firm’s largest shareholder class in more than a decade. I have included more information on these attorneys below. 

Carlos Colón-Machargo is a member of Ogletree Deakins’ Cross-Border Practice Group, which provides labor and employment legal advice and solutions to U.S. clients with operations around the globe.  As a native Spanish speaker, Carlos focuses on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico. His experience includes providing legal advice to employers on all aspects of international personnel actions. He earned his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center and J.D. from Inter American University.

Jaslyn Johnson represents and advises employers on workplace safety and health matters. Her practice includes providing guidance on federal OSHA compliance, challenging citations, and litigating OSHA-related matters before federal agencies and courts. She earned her J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Harry Rowland, III represents employers in a wide variety of litigation matters with a primary focus on class and collective actions and other complex litigation. He has extensive experience defending complex wage-and-hour cases, including those asserting off-the-clock, regular-rate, time-rounding, and misclassification claims, as well as Title VII pattern or practice claims and other representative actions. He earned his J.D., summa cum laude, from Georgia State University College of Law.

Jessica Thomas focuses her practice on Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title IX, the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (Titles I, II, and III). She has represented clients from small businesses to large hospital systems to municipalities and school boards. She earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.