Brent Hockaday

Practice Areas

Brent Hockaday, a partner in the Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety practice, operates as a trusted ally to business leaders. With a steadfast commitment to fostering shared business success across a diverse range of industries, Brent provides strategic guidance to seamlessly integrate protective measures with effective execution.

Board Certified in labor and employment law, Brent crafts contracts, policies, and legal frameworks that safeguard trade secrets, deter unfair competition, and navigate the compliance through the maze of employment laws and regulations. Brent’s tailored counsel empowers leadership teams to build resilient workplace strategies, manage employee relations, and avoid litigation.

Brent is also a skilled litigator and trial lawyer with extensive experience handling employment and commercial disputes nationwide, achieving successful jury verdicts and arbitration awards. His litigation experience includes enforcing and defending restrictive covenants, protecting trade secrets, and the successful defense of wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims in courts, arbitrations, and before administrative agencies.

Beyond his legal practice, Brent also educates lawyers and industry leaders on emerging trends in unfair competition and trade secrets protection. His insights and guidance equip businesses of all sizes.

Professional Memberships

Dallas Bar Association, Member

Downtown Dallas, Inc., Board of Governors, 2022-2023

The Patrick Higginbotham Inn of Court, Member, 2018

Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow

Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce

Leadership Dallas, Class of 2022

Young Professional Advisory Council, 2018-2020

LEAD Young Professionals, Class of 2017

Publications

“Pared Back Version of Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act Is Signed Into Law,” Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, November 2025

“#MeToo Takes a Bite Out of Arbitration,” Texas Lawyer, 31 March 2022

"How The New ‘Tipped Pool’ Rule May Impact Restaurant Employers," Modern Restaurant Management, 30 October 2019

"3 employment forms that protect your business," Dallas Business Journal, 2 October 2019

Oklahoma Chapter, Employment at Will: A State-by-State Survey, 2014 Cumulative Supplement, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, January 2015

Oklahoma Chapter, Employment at Will: A State-by-State Survey, 2013 Supplement, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, January 2014

Education