practice areas
practice accolades
The American Lawyer Magazine's Litigation Department of the Year – Labor and Employment Law Finalist 2004, Winner 2006, Finalist 2008, Finalist 2010, and Finalist 2012
Listed in the highest tier for National Labor and Employment Practice in Chambers USA 2011
Ranked in the top tier by The Legal 500 for Labor and Employment Litigation, ERISA Litigation, Labor-Management Relations, and Workplace and Employment Counseling (2011)
Ranked, National Tier 1: Employment Law – Management, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)
Named one of Law360's Employment Groups of the Year (2010)
Ranked #1 for "Most Prestigious" Labor and Employment Practice, Vault 2012 Associate Survey
Listed in the highest tier for National ERISA Litigation Practice in Chambers USA 2011
honors + affiliations
Member of the American Bar Association; Chicago Bar Association; ABA Committee on Labor and Employment Law, Employee Benefits Section; Advisory Board, Leading Lawyers Network; and Seventh Circuit Bar Association
Human Resource Executive’s The Best Defense 2008, ranked in national Top 50
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2006–2011)
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005–2011)
Selected for inclusion in the BTI Client Service All-Star Team 2010 following client nomination
Listed, Guide to the World's Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers 2007 (Expert Guides)
Noted in The Legal 500 for Employment and Labor (2007–2009)
Noted in The Legal 500 for Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation—ERISA Litigation (2007–2009)
Noted in The Legal 500 for Labor and Employment—ERISA Litigation (2007–2009)
Listed as Recommended, Labor and Employee Benefits, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008
bar admissions
- Illinois
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C., 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th Circuits
- Chicago
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77 West Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601-5094
Phone: 312.324.1156
Fax: 312.324.1001
Charles C. Jackson is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Mr. Jackson is co-chair of the LEPG's Employee Benefits Litigation Practice Group and a member of the firm's Advisory Board.
Mr. Jackson represents employers in complex labor, employment and employee benefits (ERISA) litigation, particularly class and collective actions. He has extensive trial experience, having tried numerous jury and other cases to verdict. He also has substantial experience with appellate matters and has handled dozens of cases before federal and state appellate courts and has served as counsel in significant labor, employment, and ERISA cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Jackson served as lead counsel in Hecker v. Deere, the precedent-setting ERISA fiduciary breach/§ 404(c) safe harbor case in which the Seventh Circuit rejected class action claims that excessive fees were charged participants on retirement plan investments. He was lead trial counsel in the successful defenses of the first two post-Enron ERISA class action employer stock cases to go to trial, DiFelice v. US Airways and Brieger v. Tellabs. He was lead counsel in Quan v. Computer Sciences Corporation, in which the Ninth Circuit adopted the Moench presumption of prudence in employer stock cases. He also was co-lead counsel in the successful Brubaker v. Deere trial—an ERISA retiree medical benefits class action that sought to reverse a host of progressive changes to retiree medical benefits plans.
Mr. Jackson is currently chair of the board of directors of Cabrini Green Legal Aid, which provides legal services to Chicago's poorest citizens. He has served CGLA in various capacities throughout his legal career. He has had a variety of significant pro bono representations.
Mr. Jackson is admitted to practice in Illinois and before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits.
Mr. Jackson is a fellow of The College of Labor & Employment Lawyers.
education
- Northwestern University School of Law, 1977, J.D., Cum Laude
- Bethel College, 1974, B.A., With Highest Honors