Andrea Johnson

Director


direct 713.425.7433
main 713.425.7400
fax 713.425.7700

ajohnson@krcl.com

A recipient of many honors by prominent regional and national publications and ranking agencies, Andrea “AJ” Johnson advises clients in employment law and employment/commercial litigation.

She represents organizations across both the country and the size spectrum, from multinational corporations to local Houston businesses. With more than three decades of in-depth experience, AJ builds and maintains relationships through partnering closely with clients to provide day-to-day advice on critical, time-sensitive business and employment matters, delivering answers in real time for essential company assets. She has tried numerous cases to successful verdict and/or to dispositive adjudication, and has arbitrated and enforced mandatory arbitration programs in several states.

Always taking a straightforward approach, AJ seeks the most expedient way to resolve matters and forge the best path forward for clients through prevention and training protocols. As a member of her clients’ teams, she works with them to craft policies and procedures to help avoid litigation, which is too often time-consuming, expensive, and debilitating.

When litigation is unavoidable, AJ vigorously defends her clients in the courtroom. Using her ability to see the interconnection of data, she zeroes in on key details, figures out how to use them effectively, and paints a picture through words. She developed her approach from extensive experience over the decades in handling a variety of dockets in employment, general commercial, and national product liability law.

AJ imparts advice to a wide range of companies, including those in the gas and energy services industry, on all issues touching employers and employees, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), overtime and class action litigation, noncompetes, and nonsolicitation agreements, RIFs, WARN Act matters, 409A compliance, drug screening, general employee discipline and counseling issues, policies, leave rights and responsibilities, and Texas state employment concerns. She also counsels clients on all manner of compliance under various statutes, including Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

AJ’s strategies have yielded considerably favorable results in court over the years. Her victories include successfully defending and guiding companies through numerous overtime class actions and DOL audits, winning discrimination actions of first impression, obtaining one of the largest commercial verdicts in 2013 in Texas, obtaining a summary judgment invalidating a patent, and procuring a complete defense verdict in a $54 million alleged slander suit in Galveston County.

In addition to serving as co-chair of the Firm's Chamber-rated Labor and Employment group, AJ also serves as chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Away from the Office

In her free time, AJ enjoys cooking, traveling, reading, spending time with family, and practicing her faith.  She sits on the board of Tahirih Justice, which helps immigrant women who are victims of human trafficking and violence, and she has also been on the board of both St. Pius X High School and the Joy School, which serves children with learning differences.

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Loyola Law School (Loyola Marymount University), J.D., 1981


University of California, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978


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