Overview

Tessa Gelbman serves as Knowledge Management Counsel for Littler’s EEO & Diversity Practice Group, for which she monitors case law, settlement agreements, legislative developments, and regulatory actions. As chair of Littler’s publications review committee, she is responsible for editing and managing various firm publications.

Before transitioning to the Knowledge Management department, she was an associate in Littler’s Washington, D.C. office, where she advised and litigated on behalf of management clients concerning a variety of matters, including alternative dispute resolution, employment discrimination and harassment, trade secret and non-competition disputes, and fair employment policies and practices.

News, Analysis & Press

WPI Labor Day Report 2023

WPI Report

September 5, 2023

WPI Labor Day Report 2022

WPI Report

September 5, 2022

WPI Labor Day Report 2021

WPI Report

September 6, 2021

COVID-19 employment lawsuits

Thomson Reuters Westlaw

September 29, 2020

WPI Labor Day Report 2020

WPI Report

September 8, 2020

WPI Labor Day Report 2019

WPI Report

September 3, 2019

Littler's WPI Labor Day Report 2018

WPI Report

August 30, 2018

Recent Development In Employment Law and Litigation

American Bar Association

August 1, 2013

Books & Book Chapters

  • Littler’s Washington, D.C. Report: Federal Legislative, Executive & Regulatory Developments, The National Employer, LexisNexis, co-author: Ilyse Schuman, 2009-2012 Ed.

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1999
  • B.S., Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1996

Bar Admission

District of Columbia
Virginia

Courts

  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia