Kelsey A. VanOverloop represents employers of all sizes with litigation and counseling matters. Her litigation practice focuses primarily on employment discrimination and wrongful termination cases, defending employers in single-plaintiff litigation in Colorado, Montana, and Illinois. Kelsey has extensive experience with federal appeals, working on several cases that have gone to argument before the Seventh and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
Kelsey also has significant experience assisting employers navigate administrative agency actions, including actions with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and the Montana Human Rights Bureau.
With respect to counseling, Kelsey provides her clients with proactive and pragmatic strategies for managing litigation risk and ensuring compliance with employment laws, specifically as relates to Federal and Colorado laws relating to disability accommodations. She has also conducted workplace investigations and counseled employers on workforce-management issues, including employee discipline, separations, and employee policies.
Prior to joining Littler, Kelsey represented clients in corporate matters, employment discrimination cases, and civil rights actions while with a boutique law firm in Chicago. Previously, she served for three years as a law clerk; first as a chambers clerk for the Hon. Stephen H. Glickman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and then as a staff law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where she developed a sophisticated knowledge of appeals and appellate writing. In the latter capacity, Kelsey assisted all of the Seventh Circuit’s judges with deciding complex civil and criminal appeals. She was also selected to be a member of the court’s habeas corpus unit, evaluating post-conviction petitions for state and federal prisoners.
