Veronica D. Jackson

Miles & Stockbridge provides employment law advice on an ongoing basis on an array of matters of importance to numerous colleges and universities, working closely with the General Counsel and other senior leaders. We advise them in employment law, faculty matters, sensitive employment issues, student issues, internal investigations, and numerous other areas. 

We serve as outside general counsel to several independent schools. We provide ongoing legal advice to the schools on employment law, faculty issues and faculty contracts, student conduct issues, enrollment agreements and other contract matters, school policies, and numerous other areas.

Counseled numerous companies through data breach response efforts regarding employee W2 phishing schemes, which involved statutory notifications to affected persons and notice to state regulators, identity theft mitigation efforts in coordination with IRS and state comptrollers, and interfacing with federal law enforcement officials.  

Counseled a government contractor in a long-term data breach incident, which involved coordination with ongoing FBI investigation of international cyber-criminal, required notification to affected persons and regulatory bodies, and responses to subsequent inquiries from state attorneys general. 

Miles & Stockbridge successfully represented a university research center in two cases, one for race discrimination and retaliation, and the second for gender discrimination and retaliation. These cases are of significant importance to the client because they were both brought by the same lawyer, who filed three prior lawsuits against our client and threatened several more. This attorney became a favored attorney for individuals at the center, and was very aggressive in pursuing claims and making very high settlement demands. It was very important to the client to defend against these claims aggressively, because the client did not want to be seen as an easy target for this attorney. 

Miles & Stockbridge represents a large medical system on a variety of labor and employment litigation matters. Among them, we successfully obtained a summary judgment in federal court for hospital client in suit by former research pharmacist alleging claims under federal and D.C. law, including race and national origin discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination under public policy. 

Miles & Stockbridge secured a trial victory in Virginia state court on a claim of defamation following the employee’s termination for allegedly engaging in sexual harassment. 

Represented client who was sued by a former executive for defamation and invasion of privacy, although the complaint also contained extensive allegations of race discrimination, which were not brought in court, but were pending before the EEOC. The matter garnered significant press coverage locally and in the industry. We obtained dismissal of the state court complaint in its entirety, which required three motions to dismiss after two amended complaints were filed, and also defeated a motion for reconsideration. 

Miles & Stockbridge conducts extensive training for management and employees on topics of harassment, FMLA, internal investigations and employment law for managers. 

Miles & Stockbridge represented a well-regarded non-profit that was sued by a former, high-level IT employee for discrimination and harassment.