Brent Wilson is a senior partner at the law firm of Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP, where he represents management clients nationwide in labor relations and employment matters. Brent devotes a significant portion of his practice to defending employers in employment-related litigation and representing employers in traditional labor matters including unfair labor practice proceedings, representation cases, arbitration and collective bargaining. He is also focused on proactively counseling employers regarding day-to-day employment decisions to avoid litigation. He works with a variety of employers nationwide, including communications companies, service providers, educational institutions, non-profit groups, public entities and manufacturing operations. Brent is also a frequent speaker on litigation, employment and labor relations topics for the Institute on Continuing Legal Education and the Council on Education in Management and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Labor Relations at the Emory University School of Law. He has also been designated as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia.

Areas of Practice

Employment Discrimination Litigation

Brent helped to successfully defend a large restaurant chain against a claim of sex discrimination by the EEOC. He has also tried numerous cases in the federal and state systems to positive verdicts.

Labor Relations

Brent served as an intern and Field Attorney with the National Labor Relations Board for over three years. He is a member of the Committee for the Development of the Law under the National Labor Relations Act of the American Bar Association and is a contributing editor to the treatise The Developing Labor Law.

Brent is past Chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Atlanta Bar Association and past Co-Chair of the State Bar of Georgia's Diversity Program. He was recently inducted as a Fellow into the College of Labor and Employment Law. He is also featured in Black Enterprise Magazine's America's Leading Black Lawyers, America's Outstanding Professionals, Georgia Super Lawyers, and Georgia Trend Magazine's "Georgia Legal Elite" list. Brent's community involvement includes the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc., and St. Jude's Recovery Center, Inc., the Morehouse College Alumni Association, the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Inc., and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

Brent received his B.A. with honors from Morehouse College in 1973 and his J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976. He was named a 2004 Distinguished Alumnus at both institutions.