Lisa Haldar
Partner
Lisa Haldar is an experienced litigator who serves as a trusted advisor to clients with high profile, highly sensitive matters that have the potential for significant impact and require immediate strategic action, including cases involving higher education institutions. Skilled at crisis management and drilling down to the core issues, clients rely on Lisa to take the lead in developing an approach that effectively addresses the situation and takes business, media, and reputational implications into consideration.
About Lisa
Lisa also serves as employment outside general counsel for large companies that do not have a designated labor and employment specialist. She provides strategic advice and legal counsel on a real-time basis, addressing the myriad of situations that arise during the course of daily business as well as developing and implementing a wide range of policies including Covid, negotiating executive compensation, drafting termination agreements, and conducting Board presentations and briefings.
Deeply invested in the outcomes for her clients, Lisa is known for her straightforward delivery of what to do and what not to do. Clients rely on Lisa to be direct and partner with their Human Resources professionals to find innovative solutions to employment and employee relations issues that arise, including conducting effective and sensitive internal investigations, so clients can focus on other aspects of their business with minimal disruption.
A talented trial lawyer, Lisa represents and defends clients at all stages of litigation in both state and federal court. As a former judicial staff attorney at the Georgia Court of Appeals and an accomplished litigator, Lisa has deep knowledge of the appellate practice and an ability to lay the foundation for an appeal at the trial level. Her unremitting research skills, mastery of legal writing, and attention to detail have proven pivotal in narrowing issues in a case and achieving positive results for her clients.
