Overview
With a client-centered approach, attorney Alex Adkins helps employers design the solutions they need to address the countless legal issues they face in the modern workplace.
Alex navigates businesses and other employers through complex local, state, and federal employment laws, formulating policies and procedures that comply with applicable laws and best practices. She also focuses on employment litigation involving trade secrets, harassment, discrimination, and wage and hour issues.
During law school, Alex served as a legal intern for the General Counsel in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy; as a legal intern for the General Counsel of the District of Columbia State Athletic Association; as the Janet D. Steiger Fellow at the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, Bureau of Consumer Protection; and as a Student Attorney in American University’s Civil Advocacy Clinic, which serves underprivileged clients in civil matters in the courts and administrative agencies of the District of Columbia.
Before law school, Alex worked as a District Representative and Internship Coordinator for a California State Senator. In that role, she recruited, hired, trained, and managed nearly 600 interns.
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Focus Areas
Credentials
Education
- American University, Washington College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2022)
- Senior Note and Comment Editor, American University International Law Review
- Labor and Employment Law Society
- Alternative Dispute Resolution Honor Society
- American University Kogod School of Business (M.B.A., 2022)
- San Diego State University (B.A., cum laude, 2016)
Bar Admissions
- New York
Professional & Community Involvement
- American Bar Association
- Sports Lawyers Association
Languages
- American Sign Language
Insights
Insights
- BlogsNew York Wage & Hour Update: New York Appellate Division, Second Department, Finds No Private Right of Action for Frequency of ...6 minute read
- BlogsState and Local Minimum Wage Increases on January 1, 202418 minute read
- BlogsThe New Year’s Eve Ball Is Dropping and New York’s Salary Thresholds Are Rising4 minute read
- BlogsShould I Stay or Should I Go? Federal Regulators and Employers May Face Impending Clash Over “Stay or Pay” Clauses in ...6 minute read
- BlogsComing or Going? Employer Training Draws Focus of Federal Regulators6 minute read
- BlogsNew York Paid Family Leave Benefits and Contribution Rates Changing (Again) in 20242 minute read
- PublicationsNew York State Department of Labor Releases Model Policy on Breast Milk Expression in the Workplace9 minute read
- BlogsMaryland Delays Implementation of State’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program6 minute read
- BlogsUtah Expands Tip Pooling to Include Non-Tipped Employees4 minute read
- BlogsCalifornia’s Non-Emergency COVID-19 Prevention Regulations Are Now Effective3 minute read
- BlogsFinal Vote on California’s Anticipated New Non-Emergency Regulation for COVID-19 Prevention to Take Place on December ...7 minute read
- BlogsTime Spent Booting Up Computers May Be Compensable, According to Unanimous 9th Circuit7 minute read
- BlogsNew York Paid Family Leave, Increased Benefits at a Lower Contribution Rate for 20232 minute read
- BlogsNew York’s Paid Family Leave Is Expanding in Two Ways2 minute read
- BlogsNew Jersey Mandates COVID-19 Vaccination or Weekly Testing for Workers in Health Care and Congregate Settings5 minute read
- BlogsNLRB’s Division of Advice Concludes That Employee’s COVID-19 Policy Complaints Are Not Protected Concerted Activity ...5 minute read
- Publications
Trapped in the Binary Divide: How Forced Contraceptives Violate the World Anti-Doping Code, The American University ...
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