• Labor and Employment
  • Class Action Defense
  • Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Litigation
  • ERISA Litigation
  • EEOC and FEPA
  • Immigration and Naturalization

Doug Haloftis represents management in individual and class action employment discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation; claims arising under ERISA concerning fiduciary management of employee benefit plans or disputes over entitlement to benefits; suits involving directors and officers, including SEC investigations and creditor claims; executive employment and stock option contracts; fiduciary obligations, trade secret and non-competition disputes; wage and hour and affirmative action planning; collective actions; and other labor and employment matters.

Mr. Haloftis has been named one of Law & Politics Media Inc.'s Texas Super Lawyers annually since 2003.

Mr. Haloftis has advised and counseled a broad range of employers and plan fiduciaries, including:

• Fortune 500^® companies
• Employee benefit plans and fiduciaries
• Chief executive officers and trustees
• Health care companies
• Insurance companies
• Local businesses and charitable organizations
• Third party administrators and managed care providers

Since 2000, Mr. Haloftis has tried eight employment cases to verdict. He has defended plan fiduciaries and insurers in suits concerning claims involving diversification, conflicts-of-interest, and investment-and-fee review suits. His experience includes a defense verdict in the actual trial of claims against ESOP fiduciaries in a class action setting.

• J.D., South Texas College of Law, cum laude (1987)
• B.A., St. Louis University, cum laude (1981)
• B.S., St. Louis University, cum laude (1981)

• Speaker, Address to the Dallas Bar Association: Evidentiary Issues in the Trail of Employment Discrimination Cases (2008).
• ­Speaker, Address at the Texas Lawyer Seminar: Managing Employment Risk Strategies (2004).
• Speaker, Address to the Dallas Bar Association: Working with Legal Proof Structures (2003).
• Speaker, Address at The University of Texas Corporate Counsel Institute: Employment Law Update (2002).
• Speaker, Address at the South Texas College of Law Employment Law Seminar: The ERISA Lawyer (2001).
• Speaker, Address at the University of Houston Employment Law Institute: Race, Gender and Age Discrimination Update (1999–2000).

• Admitted to practice before:
  • Texas State Courts
  • District of Columbia Courts
  • U.S. District Court for all districts of Texas
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th and 10th Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, The District of Columbia Bar
• Board Certified, Labor and Employment Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization,
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Dallas Bar Association
  • Former Chair, Speaker's Committee
• Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
• Former Law Clerk, Honorable Eldon B. Mahon, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
• Former Adjunct Lecturer in Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (1999–2005)

• Recognized, The Best Lawyers in America (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith eds., Woodward/White, Inc.) (2013)
  • Employment Law – Management
• Recognized, Texas Super Lawyer, Law & Politics Media Inc. as published in Texas Monthly (each year since its first publication in 2003)
  • Employment & Labor
• Recognized, AV^® Preeminent^™ 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell^® PEER REVIEW RATINGS^™

• Board Member, The Alliance for Human Dignity (sponsored in part by the Embrey Family Foundation)
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• Board Member, Vision Forum (a human rights speakers’ forum sponsored by the Embrey Family Foundation and the Church of the Transfiguration)