Liseanne R. Kelly

As a trusted partner to in-house legal counsel and human resource teams, Liseanne helps companies navigate complex and challenging employment law issues, often on a multistate basis. Liseanne brings over 25 years of law firm experience to her role as employment counsel. Additionally, Liseanne has prior experience in human resources and as in-house employment counsel. Liseanne’s in-house and law firm background enhances her understanding of the practical challenges faced by clients in navigating complex employment law issues. Clients appreciate her ability to discuss complex issues in an understandable way as well as her ability to provide practical solutions to difficult problems.

Liseanne has extensive experience with wage and hour advice, day-to-day counseling regarding wage and hour, incentive compensation, employee relations, audits, and policy work. Liseanne also occasionally supports clients with high-level secondments, providing continuity of service for client in-house teams. Her current practice focuses primarily on:

• Multistate incentive compensation plan reviews
• Wage and hour counseling
• Regular rate of pay audits
• Leave of absence guidance
• Guiding clients through preparation, implementation and testing of new payroll, timekeeping and leave of absence technologies. Specifically, Liseanne works with clients in the months prior to a technology implementation to gather and audit policies/practices. She then works with clients through the build/implementation process to ensure policies and processes are implemented as drafted. She also helps clients through testing of high priority compliance items and will oversee post-implementation audits.

Liseanne also has substantial experience representing employers in litigation in federal and state court involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and wage and hour claims (both individual and class claims).