Alyesha Asghar

  • Shareholder
  • Co-Chair, EEO & Diversity Practice Group
  • Seattle
adotson@littler.com
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With over a decade of experience as an employment litigator and legal trainer, Alyesha Asghar adeptly navigates clients through the legal landscape, including in the Inclusion, Equity & Diversity space. She brings deep employment litigation experience and an innate understanding of business to her role as a diversity consultant and an employment attorney. Company executives in a broad spectrum of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and professional services, look to her for Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity programming and counsel that emphasizes recruitment, equity-building engagement, productivity, and retention.

Alyesha’s multilingual and multicultural heritage, her globe-trotting personal background, and her qualifications as an employment attorney and neutral facilitator manifest in relatable training and legal advice that extends from the C-Suite to the shop floor. Alyesha possesses a multifaceted perspective on the design and implementation of meaningful Inclusion, Equity & Diversity initiatives that are not only legally compliant but harness the potential of both stakeholders and individual contributors.

Whether it is in IE&D programming or litigation, Alyesha engages with clients to understand what they need, and strategizes to deliver it to them in the most efficient and effective manner. 

Credentials & Recognition

Speaking Engagements

IE&D Under Attack: Reducing Risk and Seizing the Opportunities in a Vastly Changing Climate

  • May 9, 2024
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Special Session: Stuck in the Middle: Finding Your Voice Between a Red Rock and Hard Blue Place

  • May 11, 2023
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Inclusion, Equity & Diversity 2.0 – A Panoramic View and Update of IE&D's Hot Issues

  • May 10, 2023
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Who Wants to Be a Lawionaire?

  • May 5, 2022
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference

A Practical Primer on Inclusion, Equity & Diversity Programs

  • May 4, 2022
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference

#NotYouToo: How to Conduct Legal Investigations in the Aftermath of #MeToo

  • October 15, 2019
  • Webinar

A New Bermuda Triangle: Substance Abuse, Testing Policies and Medical Marijuana

  • April 26, 2018
  • WV Chamber of Commerce HR Conference

Pregnancy Discrimination

  • July 31, 2015
  • Annual Conference - American Bar Association

Additional Thought Leadership

The Supreme Court Speaks on Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements

  • November 2014
  • The Young Lawyer
  • Young Lawyers Division - American Bar Association

NLRB Outlines Social Media Policies Dos and Don’ts

  • May 2013
  • The Young Lawyer
  • Vol 17, No. 7

When Johnny and Joanie Come Marching Home Again: Recent Developments in USERRA

  • 2009
  • Conference Materials
  • Annual Conference, Section of Labor & Employment Law - American Bar Association

Books & Book Chapters

Family & Medical Leave Act

  • Bloomberg BNA
  • Chapter 3, Eligibility of Employees for Leave, 2013 Supplement, Contributing Author: Eric Iskra

Employment Discrimination Law

  • Bloomberg BNA
  • Chapter 5, Failure to Provide a Reasonable Accommodation, 2014 Supplement, 5th Ed., Chapter Associate Editor

Trade Secret Laws: State Q& A Tool

  • Practical Law
  • West Virginia, Chapter Co-Author: Eric W. Iskra, Esq.
  • ABA FMLA Treatise
  • Chapter 3, Contributing Author
  • 2017

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