Elizabeth M. Roberson

Elizabeth Roberson concentrates her practice on complex employment and civil litigation matters, primarily representing clients on matters related to retaliation, discrimination, harassment, family and medical leave, disabilities, unemployment compensation, wage and hour, and restrictive covenants. Throughout her career, Ms. Roberson has demonstrated excellent advocacy skills in both federal and state courts of Indiana through motion practice, including many successful motions to dismiss and dispositive motions; oral argument at court hearings and settlement conferences; and discovery practice.

Prior to joining Krieg DeVault, Ms. Roberson served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Government Litigation Section for the Office of the Indiana Attorney General. There she defended the State of Indiana, its agencies, judicial officers, county prosecutors, and state employees in numerous civil litigation matters.

Professional Associations

• Indianapolis Bar Association, Member
  • Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee Chair (2021-2022), Secretary/Treasurer/Chair-Elect (2020-2021), and Social Co-chair (2019-2020)
  • Labor and Employment Section Executive Committee Member (2021-Present)
• Indiana State Bar Association, Member
  • Young Lawyers Section Executive Committee Member and IndyBar Liaison (2018-Present)
  • Employment, Labor & Benefits Law Section Executive Committee Member (2021-Present)  

Publications

• Author, "How Can Employers Legally Incentivize Their Employees to Become Vaccinated?," RES GESTAE (Vol. 6, Issue 4), November 2021
• Co-Author, "COVID-19 Does Not Discriminate and Neither Should You or Your Facility," Krieg DeVault Newsletter (March 2020)
• NLRB v. Canning Featuring the All-Powerful Senate: The National Labor Relations Board’s Journey to Extinction, 50 Val. L. Rev. 271 (2015)
• Indiana Choice Scholarship and RFRA’s Impact On Discrimination, Co-authored with Monica J. Conrad, RES GESTAE (Vol. 59, Issue 8)

Certifications

• Legal Lean Sigma® White Belt

Education

• J.D., summa cum laude, Valparaiso University School of Law, Valparaiso, Indiana, 2016
  
  • Jurist Scholarship Recepient
  • Law Review, Associate Editor in Chief
• B.A. in Political Science and Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013

Bar & Court Admissions

• Indiana (2016)
• Illinois (2017)
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (2016)
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (2016)
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (2017)

Practices

• Labor and Employment
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Higher Education
• Municipal and Governmental Litigation

Industries

• Education and School Law