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Experience:
Diana Hoover is a commercial litigator. She served as lead counsel in defending the largest known potential class action in Texas alleging wage and hour violations, and she was national briefing counsel for a client who was defending against numerous employment claims. Diana has extensive experience in defending class and collective actions.
Diana's practice has focused on all areas of employment law, including claims of discrimination, wage violations, and retaliation filed before federal and state administrative agencies, and litigation related to the enforcement of covenants not to compete. She regularly provides advice to clients on employment matters and drafts employment-related agreements. Her experience includes advising clients in connection with the WARN Act, compliance with the FLSA, investigating claims of whistleblower retaliation, resolving issues of internal theft and sale of illegal drugs in the workplace, and advising clients in the termination and discipline of employees. She has written and lectured on a wide variety of employment issues.
Diana also regularly assists clients in identifying and analyzing potential employment-related issues associated with outsourcing agreements, employee leasing arrangements, and the sale or acquisition of business entities, and in structuring their agreements to reduce or eliminate liability risks.
In addition to her experience in employment matters, Diana has served as lead counsel in numerous complex commercial matters, including securities and consumer class actions, mass claims of professional negligence, significant breach of contract and fraud claims, and title disputes. She represents clients in the energy, accounting, engineering, real estate, communications, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, financial, and retail industries.
Diana joined Mayer Brown in 1993. She has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list every year since 2003, and in 2007 was referred to by H Texas Magazine as a "Top Lawyers for the People" and "One of Houston's Top Lawyers." Prior to entering law school she was a human resources professional for a manufacturing company and a hospitality industry company.
Education:
The University of Houston Law Center, JD, magna cum laude, 1993; Chief Note and Comment Editor, Law Review (1992-1993), Texas State University, BS, magna cum laude, 1980. | 