Emily E. Brooks-Lipor
Assistant Vice President, EEO/workplace Investigator
Bethesda,Maryland
Summary
Dedicated legal professional offering expertise in employee relations, including internal investigations. Proven success in building trusting rapport with employees across all lines of business and offering sound advice in clear and universal terms. Hardworking and dedicated, excellent writer.
Overview
6
6
years of post-secondary education
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior EEO/Workplace Investigator, Assistant Vice President
U.S. BANK, Centralized Investigations Team
Bethesda, Maryland
07.2018 - Current
- Leading and planning approximately 300 timely, fair and equitable investigations into employee complaints and allegations of misconduct across all lines of business globally, including conducting robust interviews to gather facts, details and critical supportive documentation pertaining to allegations of misconduct.
- Creating high quality, focused and detailed investigation summaries outlining findings and applicable next steps.
- Partnering with global HR, Employee Relations, and Legal to ensure fair and consistent investigation outcomes Additional duties and experience:.
- Led executive-level investigations in concert with senior leadership legal and outside counsel.
- Planned and lead team training and round table discussions on best practices.
- Worked in conjunction with legal and employee relations to conduct investigations and draft EEOC charge responses on behalf of the Bank.
- Recruited to COVID-19 task force responsible for ensuring adherence to critical safety protocols across more than 1200 branches; deployed rapid response protocol to ensure safety of employees and customers, made real-time determinations on employee quarantine and temporary branch closures, tracked and managed each event until resolved
- Skills Acquired: Excellent interpersonal skills, adept at relationship building across business lines and identifying and working with relevant stakeholders, mastered judgement in managing complex and difficult decisions.
Risk Compliance and Audit Consultant - Third Party
U.S. BANK
Minneapolis, MN
01.2016 - 07.2018
- Fourth Party Subject Matter Expert Team, Third Party Risk Management.
- Managed risk assessments for fourth party vendors providing services to the Bank.
- Issued consultative and legal guidance on Bank third party relationships where Fourth Party scrutiny was needed.
- Solved legal issues related to the Fourth Party process and acted as legal resource for the Fourth Party Team and TPRM as it related to fourth parties and legal risk to the Bank.
- Provided guidance on Fourth Party process requirements to TPRM and business lines.
- Led calls with third and fourth party vendors to provide guidance and feedback to ensure vendors’ internal procedures were in compliance with governing regulations as established by the OCC
- Skills Acquired: Identifying areas of risk for the Bank within the area of Fourth Party, utilizing bank systems to locate and review documents, building relationships both internally and externally to gather necessary documentation and ensure compliance with governing regulations.
Attorney
CPA GLOBAL
Minneapolis, MN
09.2014 - 12.2015
- Coded documents based on relevancy, key issues, and client privilege.
- Conducted document review
- Skills acquired: able to complete large batch document review quickly and efficiently.
Attorney II
U.S. BANK
Richfield, MN
02.2015 - 09.2015
- Reviewed, drafted and negotiated contract terms and conditions to ensure Bank and Regulatory compliance.
- Identified regulatory and compliance gaps in vendor contracts based on new OCC regulations.
- Led discussions with relevant stakeholders, including, relationship managers and Third Parties to review and discuss necessary changes to existing contracts.
- Drafted and negotiated Master Agreements and Amendments to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Tracked and managed project status and provide relevant analysis
- Skills Acquired: Corporate contract negotiation and drafting, project tracking and reporting, relationship building both internally as well as externally to gather necessary information and documents, Performed electronic review of client documents.
Unemployment Law Judge
Department Of Employment And Economic Development
St. Paul, MN
08.2011 - 08.2014
- Presided over and adjudicated over 1,500 unemployment law compensation appellate cases, addressing matters of unemployment benefits, employer tax liability, and tax rates.
- Conducted direct and cross examination of witnesses.
- Conducted evidentiary hearings and ruled on evidentiary issues.
- Ruled on pre-trial and post-trial motions.
- Authored and issued appeals decisions Skills Acquired: excellent phone presence, ability to deal with difficult parties in a straightforward and direct manner, strong writing and editing skills, ability to work quickly under pressure and meet deadlines.
Attorney
Department of Employment and Economic Development
St. Paul, MN
01.2010 - 08.2011
- Intervened on behalf of the Department of Employment and Economic Development in approximately 2,000 cases in which the Department had a claim of interest.
- Testified on behalf of the Department of Employment and Economic Development in administrative proceedings.
- Negotiated and drafted settlement agreements on behalf of the Department Skills Acquired: building strong and sustained networks with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, excellent negotiations skills: negotiated for and recovered more than one million dollars on behalf of the Department, ability to work quickly and efficiently with minimal supervision, leadership ability: trained and supervised new employees to take over negotiations.
Education
J.D. - Law
William Mitchell College of Law
St. Paul, Minnesota 08.2006 - 05.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism, Communication Studies
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 09.2001 - 05.2005
Skills
Negotiation
Timeline
Senior EEO/Workplace Investigator, Assistant Vice President
U.S. BANK, Centralized Investigations Team
07.2018 - Current
Risk Compliance and Audit Consultant - Third Party
U.S. BANK
01.2016 - 07.2018
Attorney II
U.S. BANK
02.2015 - 09.2015
Attorney
CPA GLOBAL
09.2014 - 12.2015
Unemployment Law Judge
Department Of Employment And Economic Development
08.2011 - 08.2014
Attorney
Department of Employment and Economic Development
01.2010 - 08.2011
J.D. - Law
William Mitchell College of Law
08.2006 - 05.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Journalism, Communication Studies
University of Minnesota
09.2001 - 05.2005
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