Ms. Jamala Sumaiya McFadden

The Employment Law Solution

Jamala McFadden is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of the Employment Law Solution (“ELS”).  ELS partners with employers to identify, minimize and resolve workplace legal issues, from advice and counseling to representation in class action litigation. 

 ELS is a multi-million-dollar firm powered by five lawyers and eight professional staff.    

Jamala has practiced litigation and employment law for more than 25 years. She earned her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Michigan Law Review. Prior to forming ELS in 2013, Jamala was a member of (now) Eversheds Sutherland’s litigation team for more than nine years.    

Jamal is actively engaged in the legal community. For example, she is a past president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA); a past president of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society’s Board of Directors; a Georgia Supreme Court appointee to the Judicial Qualifications Commission and the Character & Fitness Board; and a former high school mock trial coach.  

Jamala has invested deeply in learning how to manage and grow a profitable law firm.  She is an alumnus of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program; Babson College’s Black Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership program; EY’s Entrepreneurs Access Network program; and How to Manage a Small Law Firm. She has also recently ventured into the Airbnb business with her son, Jamal.  

Jamala is consistently recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer and one of Georgia’s top 50 lawyers, among many other distinctions.