Audrey E. Mross
Practice Areas
Attorney Bio
Audrey E. Mross is a partner and co-chairs the employment and labor law group. Audrey is highly regarded as a legal adviser to companies and HR departments locally and nationally. She worked for 11 years as a human resource professional prior to her legal practice. Audrey represents clients in matters involving discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and she guides human resource professionals in proactive measures to avoid litigation.
Among the many services Audrey provides to clients, she assists with drafting employment agreements, handbooks and other employment-related documents to comply with federal, state and local law, for single and multi-state employers.
Audrey is an avid presenter. She receives frequent requests to give speeches, present and serve on employment law discussion panels at employment law and HR professional conferences and seminars. Audrey has given more than 600 speeches, radio broadcasts, and webcasts since 1995. She is sourced and published in USA Today, CNN/Money, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, Texas Lawyer, Dallas Business Journal, HR magazine, SHRM Legal Report, HR Matters magazine and Dallas Bar Association’s Headnotes.
Each month, Audrey creates an informative newsletter, Legal Briefs for HR, focused on updating HR professionals, in-house counsel, business owners, and others on various legal issues affecting the human resources community. To join the distribution list, or see archived newsletters, scroll to the top menu on the Munck Wilson Mandala website and click on the “News and Knowledge” tab. From there, click on “Legal Briefs for HR” on the pull-down menu or email Audrey directly at amross@munckwilson.com.
Representative Experience
- Company-wide audits and edit of job descriptions, with analysis of FLSA exempt vs. nonexempt and employee vs. contractor status.
- Preparation of affirmative action plans under E.O. 11246, Rehabilitation Act and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment and Assistance Act, as well as state and local law.
- Developed and presents managers’ training programs approved by EEOC and U.S. Department of Justice as part of consent decree and serves as part of employers’ affirmative defense against harassment claims.
Presentations & Published Works
- Pay it Forward. That, My Friend is Pure Gold (article on Kansas State alumni involvement and giving back to the community), Philanthropy Misunderstood: One Hundred-Plus Stories From People Who Helped Change the World by Bob Hopkins, November 2019.
- Two-part article – Employee or Contractor: Self Examination is Good for the Soul/ Employee or Contractor: Changing Legal Climate May Complicate the Oil Patch, RigZone, December 12-13, 2016
- Texas Employment Law Handbook, Chapter 2-Employment Agreements, 2014 and 2016
- Handcuffed: Laws Limit Employers Use of Background Reports, Dallas Bar Association’s Headnotes, January 2014
- Rewriting Employee Handbook Policies on Social Media, Today’s General Counsel, April/May 2013
- Social Networking: An Employer’s Guide to the Risks and Rewards, HR Matters, Summer 2010
- Effects of U.S. Supreme Court’s Don-Doff Ruling, Texas Lawyer, April 2006
- Destroying Employee Documents? Not So Fast., Dallas Bar Association’s Headnote, October 2005
- Updating Your Family Leave Policy, SHRM Legal Report, July/August 2002
Professional Associations & Memberships
American Bar Association
Labor and Employment section
State Bar of Texas
Labor and Employment section
Dallas Bar Association
Labor and Employment section
Transition to Law Practice Program Mentor
Dallas Human Resource Management Association
Life Member and Former President, 2002
SHRM Texas State Council
Director of Legislative Action, 1999-2003
Co-Director of Legislative Action, 2004-2005
Society for Human Resource Management, 1995 – present
Member
Kansas State University Foundation, 2018 – present
Board of Trustees, Member
Kansas State University Alumni Association, 2010 – 2011
Board of Directors, Chair
Kansas State University Alumni Association, 2005 – 2012
Board of Directors, Member
Kansas State Texans Alumni Club
President, 1991 – present
Kansas State University College of Business Administration Dean’s Advisory Council, 2011 – present
Inaugural Member
Kansas State University College of Business Administration, 2019
Fellow
Kansas State University College of Business Administration, 2013 – present
Executive Mentor
Kansas State University Pre-Law Advisory Board, 2015 – present
Inaugural Member
Kansas State University Athletics, 2017 – present
Member of National Leadership Circle
Kansas State University Cat Counselors, 2003 – present
Founding Member
American Heart Association, 2009 – 2014
Benefits and Compensation Committee
Dallas Chi Omega Alumnae, 1994 – present
Member
Texas Association of Business (Dallas Chapter)
Executive Committee, 2010 – 2015
President, 2014
Texas Association of Business (Dallas Chapter)
Chair of Employment Relations Committee, 2010 – 2015
Texas Association of Business (State)
Board of Directors, 2008 – 2010, 2012 – 2014
Texas Bar Foundation
Fellow
Dallas Bar Foundation
Fellow
SMU Dedman School of Law
E-Mentor