Skip to Main Content
Professional Photo
Professionals

Jennifer L. Anderson

Shareholder

Jennifer Anderson is an employment litigator focusing on wage and hour compliance and litigation, having represented employers in more than 200 Fair Labor Standards Act cases, including more than 60 class and/or collective actions.

Featured Videos


A Deeper Dive on Your Most Pressing Wage & Hour Questions July 25, 2023
Lessons from a $22M Overtime Verdict: Top 10 FLSA Violations Employers Can Prevent June 27, 2023

Professional Biography


Ms. Anderson represents publicly traded and private companies in a variety of industries, including banking, financial services, and health care. She has particular experience advising and defending energy clients, including oil and gas drilling and production-related services companies.

Ms. Anderson also defends employers and management before state and federal administrative bodies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). She serves as lead counsel in the arbitration and litigation of labor and employment disputes at the trial and appeal levels under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and similar state and federal laws governing employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Her litigation experience also includes representing employers in breach of contract, non-competition, non-solicitation, and employment-related tort claims.

Ms. Anderson regularly counsels clients on compliance with labor and employment laws and on the development and administration of sound policies and practices to minimize disputes and litigation. She drafts and enforces non-competition and non-solicitation agreements and provides day-to-day advice regarding the handling of personnel matters. She provides customized employer training programs to educate business leaders, human resources professionals, and managers on legal considerations and best practices, and speaks and writes publicly on many aspects of labor and employment law.

  • Obtained a permanent injunction and monetary damages for a regional bank in an arbitration to enforce its former investment advisor's restrictive covenant.

  • Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a management services company in an ADA lawsuit brought by a former employee alleging she was terminated because of her association with her disabled child.

  • Managed an audit team which used the Firm's proprietary FLSA Audit Portal to conduct an internal classification audit and work with the DOL on a contemporaneous external audit for a 15,000-employee client. The two-phased internal audit involved more than 450 managerial interviews and more than 500 position evaluations. The DOL accepted and relied upon our internal audit findings for 90 percent of the positions under its audit. Baker Donelson also provided guidance to the company on potential job duties restructuring to qualify certain positions for exemption, assisted in back-pay calculations, and advised on reclassification of the positions.

  • Won summary judgment for a global products manufacturer in a federal lawsuit by an employee alleging employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit subsequently affirmed the judgment.

  • Successfully defended an offshore drilling company against a race discrimination claim during trial in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Houston.

  • Listed in Chambers USA as a leading Labor & Employment lawyer in Louisiana since 2007
  • Listed since 2009 in Louisiana Super Lawyers, Employment & Labor
  • AV ® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
  • Named the Best Lawyers® 2024 Labor Law - Management "Lawyer of the Year" in Baton Rouge
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Employment Law – Management and Labor Law – Management (2019 – 2025); Litigation - Labor and Employment (2021 – 2025)
  • Named to Greater Baton Rouge Business Report's "The Capital Region 500" (2023)
  • Listed in BTI Consulting Group's Client Service All-Stars for Law Firms (2023)
  • Co-editor – Louisiana Employment Law Letter, Employers Counsel Network (2000 – 2019)
  • Member – Louisiana State Bar Association
  • Member – State Bar of Texas
  • Board of Directors – Cat Haven, Inc.
  • Advisory Board – Louisiana State University, Louisiana Sea Grant Law & Policy Program 
  • Magnolia Community Services
    • Governor Emeritus (2017 – present) 
    • Board of Governors (2002 – 2016)
    • Chairperson (2006 – 2008)
  • "The Great Workplace Transformation: New Thoughts on Policies, Pay, and Prevention" (November 2022)
  • Presenter – "Families First Coronavirus Response Act and COVID-19 Town Hall Q&A," Louisiana Financial Executive Group (April 2020)
  • Presenter – "Navigating and Understanding New Labor Laws for COVID-19," Tech Park Academy webinar (April 2020)
  • Presenter – "Ten Litigation Catastrophes Employers Can Avoid," Baker Donelson Labor & Employment Seminar "The Inside Scoop: Understanding and Reducing Legal Risks in the Workplace" (December 2019)
  • Moderator – "Navigating Executive Leadership Transitions: A North American Perspective," Employment Law Alliance Webinar (July 10, 2019)

Education

  • Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, J.D., 1995
  • Louisiana State University in Shreveport, B.A., 1990

Admissions

  • Louisiana 
  • Texas
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana
  • U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

Email Disclaimer

NOTICE: The mailing of this email is not intended to create, and receipt of it does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Anything that you send to anyone at our Firm will not be confidential or privileged unless we have agreed to represent you. If you send this email, you confirm that you have read and understand this notice.
Cancel Accept