Alisa Ehrlich Email & Phone Number

Alisa is an Employment and Immigration Compliance Attorney who advises businesses in minimizing risk, managing their workforce and contractors, and when disputes arise, she handles litigation with a focus on finding a solution. She understands the complex issues employers face daily and provides business-oriented advice and representation. Alisa prepares contracts, policies, and handbooks tailored to meet business needs, provides training on a variety of topics for her clients, conducts workplace investigations, and supports clients in audits, including Form I-9 and wage and hour audits. Alisa manages disputes around contracts, non-compete agreements, tortious interference, trade secrets, and all variety of employment and tort claims. Her clients come from a variety of sectors including higher education, banking, and industries including product manufacturing and distribution, hospitality, and health care. She is also a frequent author and presenter on employment law, non-compete, and immigration compliance topics.EXPERIENCE• Prepares and updates Employee Handbooks, including new policies under the PWFA; prepares Form I-9 and E-Verify policies and conducts related training; prepares Title IX policies and assists with investigations; and advises clients on employment issues. • Helped a client reduce its liability in an ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) audit, negotiating with the DHS to shrink the company's fines for Form I-9 paperwork errors and other immigration law violations by nearly $100,000. • Won summary judgment in federal court in a technology licensing dispute, and achieved a lost-profits damage award of more than $1.7 million for her client. • Won a nearly $2.8 million damage award and permanent injunction in a non-compete and tortious interference dispute, plus an award of attorneys' fees and costs for her client.• Prevailed on a contract wage payment claim, obtaining summary judgment, and has represented clients in FLSA wage and hour lawsuits, obtaining favorable settlements, and avoiding collective and class certification.• Defended numerous employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims in state and federal court, and before the KHRC and EEOC, obtaining favorable outcomes, including summary judgment. Her cases include disability claims under the ADA; FMLA claims; and Title VII discrimination and sexual harassment claims.• Represents manufacturing and construction companies in negligence actions and employee disputes, and obtained dismissal of an OSHA whistleblower claim for a client.

Listed skills include Employment Law, Litigation, Torts, Civil Litigation, and 26 others.