Aarika Johnson

Aarika represents employers in essential workplace matters and provides valuable guidance to mitigate legal risk and ensure compliance with local, state, and federal laws. She leverages her experience representing employers in a variety of proceedings, including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Texas Labor Code, the Texas Civil Service Statute, and wage and hour laws, among others.

Aarika zealously works with clients to find solutions that fit with their organizational goals. With experience in litigation, arbitration, mediation, and government agency proceedings, she has extensive knowledge of the complicated challenges that face all parties involved in these high-stakes disputes.

• Dallas Bar Association
• Reading Tutor for Reading Partners

Born with a passion for storytelling, Aarika is most fulfilled when she is employing the power of the written word. For that reason, you will often find her perusing the shelves of bookstores or jotting down autobiographical poems. When she is not reading or writing for pleasure, she enjoys encouraging others to discover the magic of doing so for themselves.

Aarika is married to a self-proclaimed golf enthusiast, with whom she shares a vivacious baby girl and a mischievous German shepherd named Vandy. She credits mochas and champagne for her unwavering energy in spite of the aforementioned. 

• Co-Author, Recent Developments Under the National Labor Relations Act, 28th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, 30TH ANNUAL LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW INSTITUTE STATE BAR OF TEXAS LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW SECTION (April 20-22, 2022)

• Co-Author, Recent Developments Under the National Labor Relations Act, 28th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, UT LAW CLE (May 5-6, 2021)
• Co-Author, Recent Unfair Labor Practice Developments Under the National Labor Relations Act, 29TH ANNUAL LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW INSTITUTE STATE BAR OF TEXAS LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW SECTION (February 4-5, 2021)
• Research Contributor, Michael Z. Green, Mediating Psychiatric Disability Accommodations for Workers in Violent Times, 50 SETON HALL L. REV. 1351 (2020)
• Research Contributor, Michael Z. Green, A New #MeToo Result: Rejecting Notions of Romantic Consent with Executives, 23 EMPLOYEE RTS. & EMP. POL’Y J. 115 (2019)
• Research Contributor, Michael Z. Green, Arbitrarily Selecting Black Arbitrators, 88 FORDHAM L. REV. 2255 (May 2020)
• Research and Editing Contributor, James Roddy “Rod” Tanner, Patrick J. Maher, and Laura M. Franze, Texas Employment Law (2021) Chapters 2 (Written Employment Contracts); 3 (Wrongful Discharge), 18 (TCHRA Procedures and Remedies); 19 (Sex Discrimination); and 24 (Discrimination on Based on National Origin, Religion, and Other Grounds)