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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 has been defending employers and educational institutions successfully for more than 20 years, with a focus on discrimination, harassment and ERISA litigation. She is a pragmatic adviser and problem solver for businesses of all sizes, colleges, universities and K-12 schools throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.  

Whether she is offering guidance regarding a sensitive FMLA/ADA situation, drafting an underperforming executive’s termination agreement or defending against a volatile sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit, Ms. Wood’s practical, solution-oriented approach enables her clients to achieve their goals in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

Experience Highlights

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

  • Administrative proceedings and litigation on behalf of employers in North Carolina and South Carolina state and federal courts involving claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation based on age, race, gender, disability, religion and national origin 
  • Denial of benefit and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits under ERISA
  • Wrongful discharge, retaliation, breach of contract, infliction of emotional distress and other state law claims arising out of the employment relationship
  • ADA and FMLA counseling and compliance
  • FLSA and state wage and hour claims, including compliance reviews, audits, employee exemption determinations and litigation
  • Transactional employment matters, including preparation of employment contracts, restrictive covenants, employee handbooks and employment policies, executive separation agreements, and employment issues relating to reductions in force
  • Employment and other legal issues, including Title IX compliance, that are unique to public and private colleges, universities and K-12 schools

Representative Matters:

Some of Ms. Wood’s recent representative matters include:

  • Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a Fortune 100 company in a South Carolina federal court lawsuit alleging ADEA, FMLA, ERISA and breach of contract claims
  • Successfully represented a Fortune 200 company in the negotiation and settlement of an administrative whistleblower complaint and a companion state court defamation lawsuit alleging blacklisting
  • Obtained dismissal of a sexual harassment, infliction of emotional distress and wrongful discharge claim in a North Carolina federal court against a manufacturing company and its president
  • Achieved a favorable negotiated resolution for a North Carolina educational institution in connection with a state court breach of contract lawsuit filed by an athletic coach challenging his termination

 


Honors

  • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers in Labor & Employment Law, 2010-2012
  • North Carolina Super Lawyers in Employment & Labor, 2012-2013; Top 50 Female Lawyers, 2013
  • Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Labor & Employment Law, 2007-2013
  • Charlotte Business Journal's 40 Under 40, 2005
  • Business North Carolina magazine's "Legal Elite" in Employment Law, 2008
  • Phi Beta Kappa

News

  • 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