Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Tracey Ellerson is a partner in the firm's employment and labor group. In the course of her practice she has worked in every aspect of employment law, from advising both in-house counsel and human resource professionals on a wide variety of human resource issues, to litigating before state and federal courts and equal employment practice agencies. Ms. Ellerson also is a member of the firm's Electronic Discovery Rapid Response Team and has extensive experience handling matters involving the preservation, collection and production of large scale electronic data.

Ms. Ellerson focuses her practice on class action, collective action and large case litigation involving employment and employment-related matters, including those under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. She also has trial and arbitration experience and has argued successfully before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in a nineteen-plaintiff discrimination and harassment case.

Ms. Ellerson is a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics of interest to employers, including reductions-in-force, Family and Medical Leave Act compliance, Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, document retention policies and electronic discovery, and sexual and racial harassment. She also is active in the community, serving on the Board of Directors for the Coalition for the Homeless and volunteering with Legal Aid's Guardian Ad Litem Program and the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program. Ms. Ellerson has been recognized by the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association for her pro bono Guardian Ad Litem activities in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Areas of Practice

• Employment: Class Actions
• Employment: Counseling & Compliance
• Employment: Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1997
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2001
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1997
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 1999

Pro Bono Activities

• Serving on the Board of Directors for the Coalition for the Homeless and volunteering with Legal Aid's Guardian Ad Litem Program and the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program

Education

• Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida, 1997
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
• The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1992
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts

Published Works

• Administering Your FMLA Policies and Procedures, 1/15/2009
• Preliminary Injunction Ruling Partly Upholds Florida's Guns-at-Work Law, 07/30/2008
• Florida's Guns At Work Law, 06/10/2008
• Employment & Labor Newsletter—June 2007, 6/26/2007
• New Florida Leave Law, 6/25/2007
• Ninth Circuit Affirms Certification of Largest Workplace Class Action in History, 2/9/2007

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