Margaret H. Campbell
Profile
Margaret (Meg) Campbell is a shareholder in the Atlanta office and has practiced employment, litigation, and labor law at Ogletree Deakins since 1981. Meg graduated from Goucher College and Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review and of the Jessup International Moot Court team and a Burks Scholar. An all-around labor and employment lawyer, Meg is particularly recognized for her expertise and experience in complex class and collective action litigation, whistleblower investigations and litigation including Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank cases, appellate practice, and restrictive covenant law. Meg has litigated single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and class and collective action jury and non-jury cases in federal and state courts around the country. Clients regularly seek her client-centered practical advice and innovative solutions for preventing and mitigating risk events arising in the workplace. In addition, Meg assists clients in sensitive and complex investigations of alleged improper conduct by high-level executives.
Over her 30 years of practice with Ogletree Deakins, Meg has served the firm in a number of roles, including as its first General Counsel, and has served two terms on the firm’s four-member Board of Directors. She currently serves as regional co-chair of the Class and Collective Action Practice Group and on Ogletree Deakins’ Diversity Committee, co-leading the Women’s Initiative. She also has been a member of the firm’s Advisory Committee for a number of years.
Meg has published numerous articles on labor and employment subjects, and has spoken to the American Bar Association Annual Meeting, U.S. Chamber and other business groups, and at bar association and client seminars on labor and employment law issues. She was inducted as a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2004.
In addition to her professional activities, Meg is involved in community activities, including most recently The Atlanta United Way Tocqueville Society, The Tiffany Circle of the American Red Cross, the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta where she has served as an Elder and Co-Chair of the Nominating Committee, and various roles in support of and on behalf of The Collegiate Schools, Goucher College, Washington and Lee University, The Lovett School, and Vassar College. Meg, her husband, and two children have traveled to Brazil to work on inner-city and rural projects in and around Fortaleza.
Experience
- Litigated regional and nationwide race and gender discrimination and ERISA class actions for leading employers in manufacturing, service, financial, chemical, and defense industries
- Litigated collective action under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act through jury trial and appeal for large life insurance company, establishing leading case on limits to certification of, participation in, and proof of class-based age discrimination
- Litigated consumer race discrimination class actions for large retail company
- Litigated numerous Sarbanes-Oxley and other whistleblower retaliation cases for employers including major energy company and multinational high-tech company
- Litigated leading Georgia case establishing law on enforceability of non-solicitation covenants for major chemical company
- Litigated individual and multi-plaintiff cases coast-to-coast following decertification of national sexual harassment class action for large logistics company
Education and Honors
J.D., Washington & Lee University School of Law, 1981
A.B. with Honors in Economics, Goucher College, 1978
- Fellow, The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Leading Lawyer for Business, Chambers and Partners USA
- Super Lawyer – Georgia
- Top 50 Women Lawyers in Georgia
Professional Activities
- American Bar Association (Labor and Litigation Sections)
- Georgia Bar Association (Labor and Litigation Sections)
- Atlanta Bar Association (Labor and Litigation Sections)
- Virginia State Bar
- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
- National Association of Women Lawyers
- Georgia Association of Women Lawyers
- Women Lawyers Alliance
- Atlanta Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Counsel to Counsel Forum - "Best Practice For Internal Investigations" - Atlanta - April 5, 2011
- Ogletree Deakins Workplace Strategies Seminar - "E-Discovery – Avoiding the Court’s Wrath" - Las Vegas - May 7, 2010
- Ogletree Deakins Workplace Strategies Seminar - "Class and Collective Actions – The Latest Trends, The Latest Risks" - Las Vegas - May 7, 2010
- Ogletree Deakins Workplace Strategies Seminar - "The Class and Collective Action Phenomenon – Don’t be the Next Victim" - Las Vegas - May 5, 2010
In The News
- July 13, 2011 - Counsel to Counsel - "Internal Actions: The Essentials of Audits and Investigations"
- June 14, 2011 - Law360 - "ARB Ruling May Reverse SOX Whistleblower's Fortunes"
- January 20, 2011 - Atlanta Business Chronicle - "To the Rescue: New Federal Legislation Brings New Business"
- August 2010 - Practical Law: The Journal - "GC Agenda"
- January 2009 - BNA's Daily Report - "Outlook for Labor and Employment Issues"
- May 26, 2011 - Atlanta Business Chronicle - "A New Day for Whistle-Blowers - Are You Ready?"
- 1995 - Lawyers Cooperative Publishing - "Georgia Jurisprudence, Employment and Labor, Liability for Intentional Acts Committed in Employment Setting"
Commonwealth of Virginia
Georgia
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits


