Liz helps clients find practical solutions for employment-related needs while navigating the evolving legal landscape.

Working with clients from a diverse range of industries and sizes, Liz takes a tailored approach to helping businesses handle workforce matters, achieve legal compliance, and reach organizational goals. As part of Liz’s broad employment practice, she counsels clients on:

• wage and hour issues;
• harassment, discrimination, whistleblowing, and retaliation claims;
• employee leave (FMLA, ADA, paid leave programs, workers’ compensation);
• reasonable accommodations;
• diversity, equity, and inclusion programs;
• pay equity;
• investigations;
• hiring and termination practices;
• employee performance matters; and
• employment agreements and restrictive covenants.

Liz also prepares and advises on employee handbooks and policies, and she provides supervisor and employee training. For matters that proceed to litigation, Liz advocates for clients in state and federal courts, as well as before administrative agencies such as the Maine Human Rights Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Liz also maintains an active investigations practice, both performing and advising on investigations addressing a variety of workplace matters. Liz also advises on Title IX investigations and compliance, and she has been trained through ATIXA on Title IX investigations for higher education institutions.

After law school, Liz clerked for the Honorable Andrew M. Mead of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, where she gained invaluable insight into the litigation process from a judicial perspective. During law school, Liz served as a Bernstein Fellow at the Maine District Court and a judicial extern to the Honorable Kermit Lipez of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Liz lives in South Portland with her family. When she's not at the office, Liz enjoys running, cycling, experimenting with new recipes, and exploring Maine's outdoors.