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2025 Tools & Tactics Webinar: Accommodating Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Wednesday, Sept. 3
9:00 am PT | 12:00 pm ET

We have all heard about neurodiversity. However, do we really know what that means? Do we know how neurodiversity impacts our employees and our obligations to accommodate them? In this webinar, we will review different types of neurodiversity (including common conditions and common traits of those conditions), the laws that protect neurodiverse employees and the unique accommodations issues that may arise when we are working with neurodiverse employees, including special considerations for investigations that involve neurodiverse individuals. If you want to learn how to support neurodiverse employees while complying with your legal obligations, you will not want to miss this webinar.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what neurodiversity is and what it is not.
  • Understand how neurodiversity shows up in the workplace.
  • Learn the laws that protect neurodiverse individuals.
  • Learn ways to approach accommodations for neurodiverse employees, including what to think about if you need to conduct an investigation involving neurodiverse employees.
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Presented by

Alexis Knapp
Shareholder & Co-chair
Littler
Jeff Nowak
Shareholder
Littler
Ellen Donovan McCann
Senior Counsel
Littler

This session qualifies for the following CEUs:

1 ADMS, 1 CDMS, 1 CLMS, 1 PHR, and 1 SHRM

TO QUALIFY FOR CEUs

  • You must attend the full duration of the webinar. Following the webinar and once attendance has been confirmed, you will receive an email with CEU reporting information.
  • You must register for and watch the webinar individually. Group participation does not qualify for CEU credit.

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Alexis Knapp
Shareholder & Co-chair
Littler

Alexis C. Knapp has dedicated her law practice to developing a deep focus on leave and accommodation issues (The Family Medical Leave Act, The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act, workers’ compensation, return to work situations, fitness for duty, and more), from assisting employers with basic compliance questions, to navigating complex challenges in this arena. As part of that work, she regularly counsels and assists employers with complex employee situations, policy and process issues, and drafting policies, forms, letters, and other documents in support of employers’ leave and accommodation efforts. She also develops and delivers customized, in-person and virtual training for HR and legal teams, and supervisory/management employees, on FMLA, ADA, PWFA, and related topics.

Before beginning her legal career, Alexis served as an associate dean and assistant professor of management, teaching courses in human resources and employment law at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Prior to that, Alexis was a human resources professional in the public sector, where her focus was employee benefits, organizational policies and procedures, and training.

Jeff Nowak
Shareholder
Littler

Jeff Nowak is a shareholder for Littler Mendelson, P.C., the world’s
largest employment practice representing employers. Jeff has decades of
experience advising and litigating on behalf of employers on a wide range
of complex employment law matters so they can run the most profitable
business and efficient operations without being side-tracked by discrimination claims, strikes or
other workplace issues.

Jeff is a recognized leader on FMLA and ADA issues, helping employers develop comprehensive
strategies to achieve compliance with employee leave and accommodation issues. Jeff is lauded
by clients for his ability to bring a practical approach and unflappable demeanor to the most
sensitive and difficult situations, always with an eye on the client’s business and operational
objectives. Given his experience in leave management and workplace accommodations, Jeff
regularly counsels and litigates on behalf of some of the country’s largest and diverse employers
on these critical employment issues.

Jeff is the author of the highly regarded FMLA Insights (www.fmlainsights.com) blog, which has
earned him entry into the ABA Journal’s Blogger Hall of Fame. He also is a highly-sought after
speaker on FMLA/ADA issues, most notably serving on the faculty of the National Employment
Law Institute (NELI) and a frequent speaker for the Disability Management Employer Coalition
(DMEC).

In addition to practicing law, Jeff also is heavily involved in his community. Jeff has served as an
elected Village Trustee for the Village of LaGrange, Illinois, and on the board of directors for
Marist High School, a Catholic college-preparatory school on Chicago’s southwest side and his
alma mater. A self-proclaimed baseball fanatic, avid White Sox fan and former high school/semipro
baseball umpire, Jeff just recently finished serving as president of the La Grange, IL Little
League, fulfilling a dream that rivals his daytime job.

Jeff earned his J.D. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and his B.A. in political
science from Indiana University, where he served as student body president.

Ellen Donovan McCann
Senior Counsel
Littler

Ellen Donovan McCann’s practice is focused on complex multistate leave of absence and accommodation issues. She is a member of the firm’s Leave and Accommodation Practice Group. Ellen helps clients navigate and untangle the trickiest compliance issues with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), state leave laws, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, company leaves of absence and Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) programs across the country. She also works with clients on paid time off issues.

Prior to joining Littler, Ellen worked for a Fortune 500 insurance company for more than 25 years. She was involved in the development of and provided continued legal support to the company’s leave administration services, which included administration of FMLA, state leave laws, ADA, corporate leaves and statutory PFML programs.

She also provided employment-related legal advice to human resources and executive management, with an emphasis on leaves of absence, paid time off programs, and employee relations issues. Ellen also managed their employment-related litigation, EEOC and state charges.

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Alexis Knapp
Shareholder & Co-chair
Littler

Alexis C. Knapp has dedicated her law practice to developing a deep focus on leave and accommodation issues (The Family Medical Leave Act, The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act, workers’ compensation, return to work situations, fitness for duty, and more), from assisting employers with basic compliance questions, to navigating complex challenges in this arena. As part of that work, she regularly counsels and assists employers with complex employee situations, policy and process issues, and drafting policies, forms, letters, and other documents in support of employers’ leave and accommodation efforts. She also develops and delivers customized, in-person and virtual training for HR and legal teams, and supervisory/management employees, on FMLA, ADA, PWFA, and related topics.

Before beginning her legal career, Alexis served as an associate dean and assistant professor of management, teaching courses in human resources and employment law at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Prior to that, Alexis was a human resources professional in the public sector, where her focus was employee benefits, organizational policies and procedures, and training.