Lillian T. Manning

Lillian Manning provides counseling to employers on a broad range of HR and compliance workplace concerns, including leave and accommodations, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, performance management, terminations, and other matters arising under various federal, state, and local laws. Her practice also includes the development of employment policies and procedures, employee handbooks, employment contracts, and separation agreements. She also conducts training and investigations related to employment policies and procedures. She partners with employers of all sizes, including both public and private, nonprofit, and public sector.

In addition to her advice and counseling practice, Lillian regularly represents the interests of employers before state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois, as well as state and federal administrative agencies. She litigates individual, class, and collective actions on a wide variety of matters, including failure to accommodate, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, and biometric privacy claims brought under the ADA, FMLA, Title VII, MHRA, IHRA, FLSA, MMWL, BIPA, and other state and federal laws governing employment. Lillian enjoys partnering with her clients to obtain results-oriented outcomes, including taking the initiative to engage in early case assessment and to drive the litigation consistent with client objectives.

Lillian also serves as the St. Louis Pro Bono Committee Liaison.

Prior to joining Littler, Lillian’s practice focused on complex civil litigation including extensive work with discovery and motion practice. During law school, she clerked for Supervisory Administrative Judge Tatjana Schwendinger at the EEOC. She was also the primary editor of the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, and received a CALI Award recognizing her as the top student attorney in the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic.