Jessica S. Pecoraro
Partner
f612.642.8390
jessica.pecoraro@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Jessica S. Pecoraro is the head of Maslon’s Labor & Employment Practice Group. She works with employers to obtain solutions in various types of employment disputes. She counsels employers in numerous aspects of employment law including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour law compliance, military leave laws, personnel policy development and review, employment agreements, drug testing, and discipline and discharge issues. Jessica also advises employers with regard to labor issues concerning union organizing campaigns, unfair labor practice charge responses, and labor strikes.
Jessica graduated cum laude from University of New Hampshire and earned her law degree from the University of Maine. She is a member of the Minnesota, Maine, and American Bar Associations. She regularly drafts articles to assist employers in complying with employment and labor law standards. Jessica has also been a contributing editor to the Developing Labor Law, a nationally renowned labor law treatise, for the past five years. In addition, Jessica was selected for inclusion on the 2006-2011 Rising Stars® list and named a 2011 Chambers USA "Leading Individual Attorney in Minnesota for Labor & Employment."
- Labor & Employment
- Counseling Employers
- Defending Employers
- Labor-Management Relations
- Employment Litigation
- Litigation
- University of Maine School of Law, Portland, Maine
J.D. - University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Honors: cum laude
- Minnesota
- Maine
- Labor and Employment Law Specialist, Minnesota State Bar Association, 2012
- American Bar Association - Member
- Minnesota State Bar Association - Member
- Maine State Bar Association - Member
- “Fundamentals of Employment Law", Sterling Education Services, 2011
- “2011 Wage and Hour Forecast: A Look at Key Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Employers in 2011”, Maslon Speaker Series, 2011
- Combating the Lake Wobegon Effect, (co-author with Dawn Van Tassel) ON Litigation, Vol. 3, 2011
- Leading Individual Attorney in Minnesota for Labor & Employment, Chambers USA, 2011
- Recognized on Minnesota Rising Stars® list, 2006 - 2011 (Minnesota Rising Stars® is a designation given to only 2.5 percent of Minnesota attorneys each year.)
