As an employment litigator, Elizabeth defends clients against claims brought under Title VII, the FMLA, the ADA, the ADEA, the FLSA, and FELA, among others. She has specific experience representing clients in the construction, energy, health care, and banking industries. She also represents employers before state and federal administrative bodies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights (LCHR) and the Department of Labor (DOL).
With the eye of an employment litigator, she advises clients on a wide variety of day-to-day employment issues, including discipline and terminations, leave, disability accommodation, policy implementation and enforcement in an effort to position clients to avoid employment litigation altogether. She also drafts and enforces non-competition and non-solicitation agreements and speaks and writes on emerging issues in labor and employment law. She also advises and defends clients with regard to other employment-related tort claims, including claims related to drug testing policies and programs.