About Alyssa Riggins

Alyssa Riggins is a senior associate at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, focusing her practice on employment and labor matters, with experience in litigation. She has routinely counseled companies, including one in the Fortune 500, on reduction in force (RIF), Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), and Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) matters. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she counseled clients on furloughs, layoffs, return-to-work and vaccination issues, and she otherwise works with clients on employment issues as they arise. She has experience in litigation from the early stages to close, including a federal First Amendment trial, a trial involving novel claims under the North Carolina Constitution, and an Equal Pay Act claim that was part of a case involving six counts of employment discrimination.