Professionals

Stacy K. Wood
Stacy K. Wood

Stacy K. Wood

Partner
Board of Directors to the Firm

“Clients value my practical, real-world options and solutions in response to their challenging legal issues.”

Profile

Stacy Wood concentrates her practice in employment law and has extensive experience in employment counseling and litigation.

In addition, Ms. Wood frequently lectures and participates in seminars on employment law and compliance issues.

While at the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Wood was the Managing Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law.

Experience Highlights

Ms. Wood regularly advises and represents clients in the following areas:

  • Sexual harassment
  • EEOC proceedings and litigation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Personnel actions such as hiring, evaluation, discipline and termination
  • Supervisor and management training
  • Violence in the workplace
  • Family and Medical Leave Act compliance
  • ERISA litigation
  • Wage and hour issues
  • Drug testing policies and procedures
  • Preparation and revision of employee handbooks and employment policies
  • Drafting and review of employment contracts and severance agreements
  • Implementation of reductions in force
  • Wrongful discharge, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress and other claims arising out of the employment relationship
  • Covenants not to compete, confidentiality agreements and protection of trade secrets and other proprietary information

Honors

  • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers in Labor & Employment Law, 2010-2011
  • North Carolina Super Lawyers in Employment & Labor, 2012
  • Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Labor & Employment Law, 2007-2012
  • Charlotte Business Journal's 40 Under 40, 2005
  • Business North Carolina magazine's "Legal Elite" in Employment Law, 2008
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Charlotte

    Charlotte

    Three Wells Fargo Center
    401 South Tryon Street
    Suite 3000
    Charlotte, NC 28202

    t 704.335.9844

    f 704.335.9698

    stacywood@parkerpoe.com

Practices & Industries

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania
    JD, cum laude, 1991
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    BS, with honors, 1988

Admissions

  • North Carolina, 1995
  • South Carolina, 1995
  • Pennsylvania, 1991