About Alyssa Riggins

Alyssa Riggins is a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP focusing her practice on employment and labour. Alyssa has counselled companies on reduction in force, Older Workers Benefit Protection Act and Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act matters. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she counselled clients on furloughs, layoffs, return-to-work and vaccination issues. Alyssa’s experience includes a federal First Amendment trial, trials regarding federal discrimination claims, and trials involving novel claims under the North Carolina Constitution and alleged violations of restrictive covenants and tortious interference claims. She has successfully handled summary judgment and dispositive motions on topics including Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, the DTSA and state employment tort laws.