Join CASHRM for our annual Legal Update! This year in addition to our speakers, we will have Erin Diehl from ImproveIT! to guide us through this half-day event.
Agenda
7:45 AM - Opening
8:00 AM - Shalanna Pirtle, Partner Parker Poe
9:15 AM - Elizabeth Gift, Shareholder Ogletree Deakins
10:30 AM - Kellie Tabor, Shareholder Littler
Topics/Speakers
Legal Side of Diversity & Inclusion
Shalanna L. Pirtle
Partner Parker Poe
Shalanna Pirtle represents management-side clients in all industries and aspects of the employment relationship. An analytical counselor with intuitive problem-solving skills, she concentrates her practice in the areas of employment counseling, internal investigations, and litigation. She is admitted to practice before the state courts of North Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina.
She is chair of Parker Poe's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. In that role, she leads initiatives to improve the diversity and inclusion within the firm and the legal profession at large. That includes developing a pipeline for minority students interested in the legal profession and collaborating with local organizations who share her commitment to giving everyone a voice at the table.
New Administration, New Labor Policy: What Employers Need to Know
Elizabeth R. Gift
Shareholder Ogletree Deakins
Elizabeth devotes a substantial portion of her practice creative, strategic, and practical advice to her clients on nearly every aspect of the employment relationship. Additionally, Elizabeth devotes her time to employment litigation and has appeared in courts across the United States, including the Fourth and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and federal and/or state courts in North Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Connecticut.
Elizabeth regularly defends employers before federal and state administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the North Carolina Department of Labor (NC DOL).
Sticky Situations: Handling Sensitive Employment Challenges in a Pandemic
Kellie A. Tabor
Shareholder Littler
Kellie focuses her practice on defending employers in employee-initiated lawsuits and representing them in the enforcement of noncompete and other restrictive covenants in employment agreements, including obtaining and defending against temporary restraining orders and preliminary and permanent injunctions.
She handles both handles both single plaintiff and multiplaintiff harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims, and she also has experience with hybrid class and collective action wage and hour claims. She regularly appears in state courts and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Missouri Human Rights Commission. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. Courts for the Western District of Washington, Eastern District of Washington, Western District of Missouri, and the District of Kansas.
