Elizabeth V. LaFollette serves Littler in a dual role as Secondment Counsel and as a member of the Littler onDemand team. Drawing on more than 25 years of management-side labor and employment law experience, she is committed to delivering efficient, practical solutions for clients. Liz is a trusted advisor to employers, providing clear, pragmatic guidance on a broad range of legal issues, including complicated accommodation and leave matters and performance-management challenges.
As Secondment Counsel, Liz supports clients as interim in-house employment counsel. She becomes an integrated member of the client’s employment legal team and works closely with human resources, operations, and legal stakeholders to provide day-to-day guidance. Her responsibilities include responding to regulatory agencies and attorney demands, advising regarding compliance strategies and workplace investigations, and managing outside counsel and litigation. Liz approaches legal projects with a practical, engaged mindset and leverages Littler’s technology tools to deliver timely, effective legal advice.
As a member of the Littler onDemand team based in Florida, Liz serves as the primary point of contact for onDemand clients, ensuring their workplace legal questions are promptly and thoroughly addressed. She develops a deep understanding of each client’s business, culture, and operating practices, which enables her to provide highly tailored and relevant guidance. Liz often collaborates with Littler attorneys with focused subject matter and jurisdictional experience to deliver quick, substantive answers to client inquiries. She also uses Littler’s technology-based tools to access client information efficiently and support the delivery of high-quality guidance through the onDemand platform, contributing to the firm’s ability to respond in real time to challenges arising from administrative, legislative, and executive actions.
Earlier in her tenure with Littler, Liz served as Littler CaseSmart Counsel and Team Lead, managing hundreds of federal and state administrative charges for national employers and developing deep experience in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s enforcement priorities, procedures, and practices.
Before joining Littler, Liz litigated a wide range of labor and employment and business law matters for private and public employers—including jury trials, bench trials, and appeals—in addition to her long-standing work helping employers prevent litigation.
Liz has also led employment law training sessions and delivered numerous employment law presentations to clients and to professional and trade association groups.