Erica Mason is a seasoned litigator and advisor whose highly diverse, multi-lingual team offers a strategic advantage to clients with increasingly multicultural and globalized workforces. As national and regional employment counsel for her clients, she routinely defends employment claims before state and federal courts and agencies across the country, including, successfully litigating five sexual harassment class actions against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and dozens of class and collective actions against privately-represented individuals and groups.
Erica also assists clients with internal and governmental audits and investigations, M&A and private equity HR due diligence, restructurings and reductions-in-force, restrictive covenant agreements, multi-state employment law compliance programs, and crisis management/PR messaging in cases involving sensitive allegations against high-ranking employees. She is known as a strategic counselor, creative problem solver, and committed advocate.
Clients also value Erica’s proactive and practical approach to identifying preemptive HR strategies that will increase employee job satisfaction, minimize risk, and reduce overall litigation spend–work that she considers critical to ensuring her clients’ long-term success. She also conducts training on a number of employment-related topics including EEO and wage/hour compliance issues; as well as diversity, inclusion, implicit bias, and respectful workplace norms; leadership development and executive presence.
Numerous organizations have named Erica a top labor and employment attorney in Georgia and nationally, including nine consecutive years by Georgia Super Lawyers and three consecutive years by Best Lawyers in America, and she is a nationally sought out thought leader on a wide array of legal and non-legal issues.
Erica is also passionate about community service. She has received numerous awards recognizing her pro bono work, bar leadership, and advocacy for increasing racial/ethnic diversity and inclusion in the legal profession: most recently, Atlanta Magazine’s “500 Most Influential Leaders in Atlanta.” She is the immediate past National President of the Hispanic National Bar Association and sits on a number of non-profit boards.