Mary Joyce Carlson ESQ

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Mary Joyce is renowned for her work coordinating investor prosecution of actions under European Competition Law and representing clients in accordance with OECD principles. Ms. Carlson oversaw the workload of attorneys handling French, Italian, and German antitrust cases that were brought before the European Commission in that position. The European Public Service Union and the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions were partners in her worldwide work. Additionally, she has defended clients in front of the Brazilian Ministry of Public Work (Ministério Pblico do Trabalho), and she is designated International Global Legal (IGL).

Ms. Carlson’s career has included significant victories in labour and employment law, and she has built a reputation throughout the world for developing fresh research avenues and cutting-edge legal ideas that result in winning litigation, particularly when it comes to coordinating intricate EU anti-competition cases. Large charitable organisations, NGOs, academic institutions, advocacy groups, professional associations, and national labour unions like SEIU, CWA, and UAW are just a few of Ms. Carlson’s extensive list of clients and business contacts. In addition, Mary Joyce offers client advice and due diligence services on ethical investments, union-side investment funds, and shareholder litigation.

In her capacity as counsel for The Fight for Fifteen, Mary Joyce Carlson made significant contributions to the successful legal case that helped more than 22 million workers receive $62 million in raises and “completely changed the politics of the country,” according to Chris Hayes of MSNBC.

In addition to giving faculty-student lectures, speaking at numerous ABA International Law meetings, and being quoted in publications such as the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, Mary Joyce held the position of Distinguished Scholar and Speaker at Cornell University. Ms. Carlson has participated on a few distinguished panels during the course of her career, including the ABA “Future of Work life, Post Pandemic” forum. She recently spoke as a guest commentator at the 36th Annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, which included Jared Bernstein, a former top economist and vice president Joseph Biden’s economic adviser. She actively contributed to the creation of solution sets and ideas for a number of constituents and groups for the Harvard Law School Clean Slate Project Working Group.

Mary Joyce, a native of rural Tennessee, took part in student Civil Rights demonstrations while she was pursuing her undergraduate degree. Later, she graduated with a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law, where she began to prepare for a career in economic and civil rights. After working as an attorney in Georgia and Maryland, Ms. Carlson continued her legal career in Washington, DC, where she successfully fought to end the long-standing practise of racial and gender discrimination in jury selection, assisted in removing a wage cap on nurses, filed and won antitrust lawsuits against hospital networks for conspiring to lower nursing salaries, and made a significant contribution to changing racially discriminatory rules regarding nursing assignments to hospital specialty units, President Clinton promoted Mary Joyce to the position of Deputy General Counsel for the National Labour Relations Board.

Ms. Carlson most recently received the renowned George “Citizen” Barrett Award for Public Interest Law from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. She has always believed that good change is necessary to promote real advancement in the areas of civil rights, economic justice, and gender equality. Mary Joyce has established herself as a dependable champion for her expanding clientele as a result of her empathetic engagement style, visionary legal insight, solid knowledge of international business, and demonstrated ability to advance her clients’ interests.