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New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
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Jennifer Kogos is a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. Her practice focuses on defending employers in employment-related litigation, including litigation under Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state law counterparts. In addition to experience before federal and state courts, Mrs. Kogos represents employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and its state law counterparts. Drafting employers’ policies, handbooks, and employment agreements, as well as day to day advices and training employees and seminar participants on various aspects of employment law, also constitute a large part of her practice.

Mrs. Kogos is a 1998 graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she served as the Casenote-Quantum Editor of the Loyola Law Review.

News

• Labor & Employment Attorneys Present at ADA Master Class
• Jones Walker Names Twelve New Partners
• Louisiana Employment Law Letter Wins National Award for Practical Client Solutions

Presentations

• "ADA Master Class", October 2007
• Certificate in HR Management, August 2004
• Certificate in HR Management, January 2004
• "Payroll Management in Louisiana", May 15, 2003
• "Certificate for HR Professionals", April 2003

Publications

• "Disaster Recovery FAQs for Employers"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, Vol. 14, No. 7, October 2005
• "Weathering the Storm: Katrina's Lessons on Crisis Management for Employers"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, September 2005
• "How to Deal with Workplace Gossip, Among Other Things"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, August 2005
• "It's Family and Medical Leave Act, not Friendly Medical Leave Act"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, February 2005
• "2004 hurricane season: when Mother Nature disrupts your workplace"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, Vol. 13, No. 7, October 2004
• "Take this job and shove it!"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, Vol. 13, No. 6, September 2004
• "A marriage made in heaven, modified on earth and stuck in purgatory"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, Vol. 13, No. 5, August 2004
• "What all the king's men (and women) decided – 2004 legislative session in review"
  Louisiana Employment Law Letter, Vol. 13, No. 4, July 2004

Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member, Section on Labor and Employment Law)
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• New Orleans Bar Association