Lovita Tandy

Lovita relies on her more than 25 years of experience to guide clients in the defense of single plaintiff, class, and collective employment discrimination and retaliation claims involving federal and state anti-discrimination laws. She also assists clients in navigating the complexities of whistleblower laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Lovita litigates trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and class and collective action matters as well.

Highly skilled at internal investigations and trained in trauma-informed interviewing techniques, Lovita is masterful at interviewing the accused as well as witnesses in a way that respects personal dignity and values operational effectiveness. Lovita also conducts employment-related training for corporations and high-level executives, designs ADA, FLSA, and other employment-related compliance programs, and offers advice and counseling on the full spectrum of employment laws.

She has a passion for DEIB and advises clients across the country on strategies to ensure that companies achieve their diversity goals while remaining compliant with changes in the law. Lovita also designs and conducts DEIB training programs that are rooted in two and a half decades of experience on what actually works. Lovita is a thought leader on many current DIEB challenges including effectively embracing neurodiversity in the workplace.

In addition to her employment and DEIB expertise, Lovita has extensive experience in traditional labor matters, including advising employers during union campaigns, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, arbitrating grievances, litigating matters before the National Labor Relations Board, and conducting due diligence in mergers and transactions involving unionized workforces.

Lovita leads the Mosaic Project, which shares the lived experiences of neurodiverse legal professionals. She is also the former Partner in Charge of King & Spalding’s Diversity Committee and a former Vice President of the Association for Law Firm Diversity Professionals.

Among her many professional accomplishments, Lovita became the first African American woman elected partner at King & Spalding. She also taught Contracts, Remedies, Transactional Drafting, and Negotiations while serving as a full-time professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School.

• Co-Chair, National Association of Women and Minority Law Firms (NAMWOLF), Labor and Employment Practice Area Committee
• Board Member, Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Alumni Association
• Past President, Board Member, and Executive Committee Member, Leadership Institute for Women of Color Attorneys
• Former Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Taylor Made Foundation, Strategic Planning Committee
• Former Co-Chair of King & Spalding’s StreetLaw partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and Emory Law School
• Former Volunteer, Emory Law Clinic for Veterans
• Member, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

• Duke University School of Law J.D.
• Harvard University B.A.