Profile: Charles C Jackson

Management Labour and Employment

Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Charles C Jackson is a partner in Morgan Lewis's labour and employment practice. Mr Jackson is also co chair of the firm's employee benefits litigation subpractice.

Mr Jackson has more than 31 years of experience representing employers with respect to a broad range of labour and employment and employee benefits matters. His practice focuses on representing employers in complex labour, employment and employee benefits litigation, particularly in class and collective actions. He has extensive trial experience, having tried numerous jury and other cases throughout the country to verdict. He also has substantial experience with appellate matters and has handled dozens of cases before federal and state appellate courts and served as counsel in several cases before the US Supreme Court. He has also led amicus efforts in an array of jurisdictions, and has had significant pro bono representations.

Mr Jackson is a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. From 2005 through 2008, Mr Jackson was named one of the leading US lawyers for employment law by Chambers USA, based on the views of clients, peers, and other industry professionals. Chambers called Mr Jackson "a real star of the profession" and "an aggressive, high-energy litigator and effective pursuer of settlements".

Mr Jackson is admitted to practise in Illinois and before the US Supreme Court, the Illinois Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the US Courts of Appeals for the second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh circuits.