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

News

• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Chambers USA 2011 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 10, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Chambers USA 2010 Ranks Parker Poe as Leading Law Firm
  June 11, 2010
• Podcast: ADAAA Proposed Regulations for Definition of Disability
  October 30, 2009
• 55 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers®
  July 30, 2009
• Parker Poe Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America
  October 1, 2008
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2008
  January 14, 2008
• 40 Parker Poe Attorneys Named Among 2008 Best Lawyers in America
  September 14, 2007
• Parker Poe Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers in America
  September 12, 2006
• Parker Poe's Stacy K. Wood Honored in Charlotte Business Journal's 40 under 40
  June 13, 2005
• South Carolina Enacts "At-Will"/Handbook Statute 2. Changes to FLSA Overtime Regulations
  EmployNews
  May 18, 2004
• North Carolina Court Upholds Liquidated Damages Clause as Alternative to Covenant not to Compete in Physician Contract
  January 22, 2003