Meet T. Maxine Woods-McMillan, Esq.
Attorney Maxine is a Workplace Rights Attorney and Workplace Strategist who brings a 360-degree perspective to the modern workplace. Long before advocating for employees before administrative agencies and in courtrooms, she spent years helping organizations navigate the very workplace issues she now helps employees overcome. She understands not only what employers do—but why they do it. That insight into how businesses, government entities, and decision-makers assess risk, investigate complaints, evaluate evidence, and resolve conflict enables her to identify workplace issues others overlook, anticipate employer strategies, and develop advocacy that is as practical as it is persuasive. Her uncommon combination of Human Resources leadership, administrative adjudication, municipal practice, and employment law experience allows her to see workplace disputes through multiple lenses simultaneously. She understands how policies are written, how investigations are conducted, how employment decisions are justified, how administrative agencies evaluate claims, and ultimately how those same decisions are challenged and defended.
Attorney Maxine represents employees at every stage of the dispute resolution process—from internal workplace complaints, investigations, and severance negotiations to proceedings before state and federal administrative agencies and, when necessary, litigation. She believes that the strongest legal strategy is rarely built on statutes and case law alone. It begins with understanding the client: their goals, values, communication style, lived experiences, and the workplace dynamics that gave rise to the dispute. By pairing rigorous legal analysis with a genuine understanding of people and organizations, she crafts strategies that are both legally sound and uniquely tailored to the individual she serves.
As a former credentialed Human Resources executive, certified mediator, and trusted HR consultant, Attorney Maxine represents employees at every stage of the dispute resolution process—from internal workplace complaints, investigations, and severance negotiations to proceedings before state and federal administrative agencies and, when necessary, litigation.
Her work in bankruptcy, intellectual property, personal injury, municipal law, and as both a Hearing Officer presiding over employment-related administrative proceedings and a former Assistant City Attorney has sharpened her strategic judgment and legal analysis.
A member of the Texas Bar College, Attorney Maxine serves on the Board of the African American Lawyers Section (AALS) of the State Bar of Texas and on the Board of Workplace Fairness, a non-profit organization working to preserve and promote employee rights. She is also an active member of the Labor & Employment Law Sections of both the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association, as well as the Texas Employment Lawyers Association (TELA).
Called The Great Translator by some, Attorney Maxine is a frequent educator, speaker, and lifelong student of the law. She is of Eastern Caribbean descent and is most at peace on or near a tropical beach. She is a minister in her faith community, a diehard politics junkie, a logophile and fierce believer in the Oxford comma, a disability warrior and advocate, a wife, and a mother of three “kidults”. She enjoys teaching, reading, singing, cooking as a way of cultural fusion, is a firm believer that popcorn and pineapples should be their own food groups, and that there is no such thing as too many fabulous shoes or well-tailored jackets.
