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ADA and FMLA 2.0: Tackling Difficult Faculty and Staff Issues

Speaker Biographies

Babbitt_Ellen
Serving clients for more than 35 years, Ellen Babbitt concentrates her practice on advising public and private research universities, community colleges, liberal arts colleges, graduate and medical programs, and religious schools of different denominations.

As a member of the Healthcare, Life Sciences & Education team, Ellen counsels and advocates on behalf of educational institutions in cases involving tenure, academic freedom, accreditation, internal investigation, ADA accessibility, program closure and codes of conduct. She also represents institutions (and individuals within those institutions) in government investigations, lawsuits and administrative proceedings concerning compliance with statutory, governance and accreditation standards.

Earlier in her career, Ellen was a founding partner in Babbitt, Land & Warner LLP, which focused on higher education legal services. She frequently presents at conferences, seminars and webinars on significant legal issues affecting higher education. She also has published extensively on issues of higher education risk management, particularly in the areas of academic program closure, academic freedom and disabilities. She previously served on the NACUA Board of Directors.  

 

Kristine Moore
Kristine Moore is an Assistant General Counsel at Michigan State University, where she practices primarily in the area of employment law, including wage and hour, leaves of absence, discrimination, employee discipline and other employment law issues.  Kristine also advises on Americans with Disabilities Act matters.  She is a frequent speaker in the area of employment law.

Prior to joining the Office of the General Counsel in 2014, Kristine served as Assistant Director for Institutional Equity in MSU’s Office for Inclusion.  Prior to that, Kristine was a partner at a large law firm in Michigan, where she practiced labor and employment law.  Kristine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her law degree cum laude from the Chicago Kent College of Law.